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Post by Flacky007 on Jan 22, 2005 14:52:50 GMT 10
 Hi Shipmates I have just rejoined the forum and this is my first ever post. I would like to share some experiences I had on the grey lady,s R A S. deck..Does anyone remember Irish ?,After joining Supply at the Pontoons early 66.and the Ras deck being my part of ship,Iriish O,Flynn took me under his wing and turnded me into a not so bad painter.chipper.scraper and fair Rasser..Irish was old school and served on the Queen B,and was a Voyeger Survivor.I spent hours on deck,hand rails,davids,poles. posts. spars and all those big things,scraping and painting.When we got up top it took 10 days for the people to do what i did in 6 months.I still have a tint of grey paint in my hands....
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Post by Beaso on Jan 24, 2005 20:13:44 GMT 10
G'day Flacky and everyone else. Can't help with your queries, but just wanted to introduce myself. I was on the Supply 68 and 69, as a signalman on the bridge. The skipper was Capt. Dacre Henry Duradeth Smythe (recently passed away here in Perth R.I.P.). All seems a million years ago. The Navigator was Lt. Cdr. Chris Hole, real dapper type, used to come aboard after overnight leave in a motor boat, which he tied up alongside when we were refitting at thingyatoo Dockyard. I was a bit worried when I read about the windy hammers today, which is where I found out about this site. I think I had a Jason Gun in my hand more than a signal lamp over the years. My real name is Mike Beasley. Anyone remember? Oh Well ....  |
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Post by Tanker73 on Mar 3, 2005 21:48:40 GMT 10
 Guday Beaso glad to hear from you again mate, can you drop me an email sometime soon and let me knwo your present contact details so I can update the Tanker Association files. Also I hope you can make it to the reunion in June, we should have a great time this year. Cheers mate
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Post by Harry Goodall on Mar 17, 2005 14:01:54 GMT 10
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If it is the same Irish O,flyn i served with him on the Tide Austral/Supply when it was commisionedin the U K in 1962 the last time i heard about him was that he was on the Voyager when it was sunk
Harry G
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Post by Tanker73 on Mar 20, 2005 21:25:42 GMT 10
Guday Harry welcome aboard, Its about time you made an apearence, I'm looking forward to the first cold one at the bar on the Friday night. Ok on Irish O'Flyn he is held in high regard by a lot of us Dibbies. The same as all the Stokers who served aboard Supply with their Patriarch ABME Les Vivian. Back when stokers were stokers eh. Cheers Harry catch you soon...
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Post by Harry Goodall on Mar 22, 2005 11:54:54 GMT 10
;D ;D
Ken forgive me it took me a while to send a message by flags when i was in pussers how am i suppose to know how to work a computer i was only a dib dab anyway i will be there on thursday with a big thirst
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Post by Spike on Feb 17, 2006 22:01:57 GMT 10
Yeah, I remember Irish, a right nutter. Tried to run in all of the stokers for not spit polishing their boiler boots when turning to for a RAS. Dolly Gray the senior E, set fire to his a*se and told him to wakeup to himself.
Strange little man!!
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Hi Shipmates I have just rejoined the forum and this is my first ever post. I would like to share some experiences I had on the grey lady,s R A S. deck..Does anyone remember Irish ?,After joining Supply at the Pontoons early 66.and the Ras deck being my part of ship,Iriish O,Flynn took me under his wing and turnded me into a not so bad painter.chipper.scraper and fair Rasser..Irish was old school and served on the Queen B,and was a Voyeger Survivor.I spent hours on deck,hand rails,davids,poles. posts. spars and all those big things,scraping and painting.When we got up top it took 10 days for the people to do what i did in 6 months.I still have a tint of grey paint in my hands....
