Grumpy old buggers thread

[V8Ian]

Sharmy, your dad's uniform looks similar to my dad's, who was in the Royal Navy, or Real Navy as he called it.

[NavyDiver]

Sharmy, your dad's uniform looks similar to my dad's, who was in the Royal Navy, or Real Navy as he called it.

The rude POM My Navy is better

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[4bee]

Sharmy, your dad's uniform looks similar to my dad's, who was in the Royal Navy, or Real Navy as he called it.

Maybe he borrowed it & never returned it?

[V8Ian]

The rude POM My Navy is better

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This one will never find out. I'm still laughing at Sydney's 30⁰ heatwave.

[sharmy]

Sharmy, your dad's uniform looks similar to my dad's, who was in the Royal Navy, or Real Navy as he called it.

I remember reading an article in the readers digest many years ago written by a US navy captains wife who said her husband told her that while he was at anchor adjacent to a royal navy ship during the latter part of WW2, the Americans launched a new ship that made them one ship bigger than the RN. He thought he would have a crack at the RN captain and sent a message " how is the worlds second largest navy going today " an answer came back "not bad how is the second best"
John

[V8Ian]

The RN blokes used to refer to the Merchant Navy as the Grey Funnel Line.
It's all a bit parochial really, as both navies had an equally hazardous role to play, each being an equally sized target, but one couldn't shoot back.

[Saitch]

I'm a bit grumpy, as the wind has come up and made fishing a tad difficult. I have had to bring 'Plan B' in to play!
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[cuppabillytea]

The old mans rank was a stoker but I don't think he shoveled any coal he was an entertainer, a very good comedian. He came out to Brisbane for whatever and spent most of his war at a Naval base at Salisbury, Brisbane. I think he was Merchant Navy. I still cant get the photos up they are stuck in the attachments section. I haven't had this problem before.

The day before you posted this I had Cnilli Mud Crab at the Crab Hut on Fji's Coral Coast.

[cuppabillytea]

The RN blokes used to refer to the Merchant Navy as the Grey Funnel Line.
It's all a bit parochial really, as both navies had an equally hazardous role to play, each being an equally sized target, but one couldn't shoot back.

And the one that couldn't shoot back lost the most personnel of any service. My uncle survived a few sinking but was advised to take up smoking, so they got him eventually.

[Tins]

And the one that couldn't shoot back lost the most personnel of any service. My uncle survived a few sinking but was advised to take up smoking, so they got him eventually.

My uncle was a radio op on a merchantman on the Murmansk convoys. He borrowed a revolver from my dad. He said that the door to his cubby used to jam when the ship rolled ( all the time on that run ) and he didn't want to drown if the ship sank.....