Not a habit of mine, grog got me into enough trouble. None of us partook in any of that back in the day, [ we'd know] some Americans embraced the habit, I'm glad I didn't go to sea with them.Dangerous to themselves and everyone else. [ We always knew when to go to the huge store houses in Subic Bay, one of the boys would give you the nod, " the keeper of the stores is on the hooch, ", go along with anything aussie, badges etc, and he'd give you the store. ' COOL MAN, take what you need. ' Our cunning kick stores [ off the PL 'permanent list' and not accountable ] down in the tiller flat were the envy of the squadron.
Another story about the generosity of our American allies, when the Brisbane came back from England after the jubilee, we had to do a full power trial before refit. Now we'd been away for about 6 months and the deal was no leave until the full power trial was done. Trouble is, each of our boiler main stops were sealed with a silver ring, [ pure silver coated on a metal ring.] Worth a kings ransom, the 1B boiler in No 1 fire room had a leaky main stop joint and there were none in Australia. Could have got one in a hurry in about a week from Hawaii.
The grizzled old Chief 'Tiffie said " no worries, go over to that yankee DDG on the other side of the wharf and invite the Chief Machinest Mate over for lunch
[ we had a wet mess.] I escorted the legless CMM back to his ship, he handed me a silver ring I went back and put it in. Job done. The advantage of a wet mess. What happened during the full power trial is another story, worth telling at another time.
Originally Posted by bob10
Not a habit of mine, grog got me into enough trouble. None of us partook in any of that back in the day, [ we'd know] some Americans embraced the habit, I'm glad I didn't go to sea with them.Dangerous to themselves and everyone else. [ We always knew when to go to the huge store houses in Subic Bay, one of the boys would give you the nod, " the keeper of the stores is on the hooch, ", go along with anything aussie, badges etc, and he'd give you the store. ' COOL MAN, take what you need. ' Our cunning kick stores [ off the PL 'permanent list' and not accountable ] down in the tiller flat were the envy of the squadron.
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