Originally Posted by
Old Farang
Undoubtedly excellent training. But I would just like to know why the young fellow at 1.15 is using an adjustable / crescent
wrench on what appears to be around a fuel injection system? In fact, why was such a butchers tool allowed in the workshop in the first place?
Don't have an answer for that. We were not permitted to use them. As for working in civvie street, all those I know who wanted to work the trade did so , and most ended up in management. While serving on ships we were operator/maintainers, and when I picked up my Chiefs Rate I was in charge of the maintenance of the after unit, which was the aft boiler room and Engine room. When we completed the machinery charge certificate that enabled us to take charge of the Marine Engineering dept. in the absence of a marine Engineering Officer. This we did on Patrol boats, head of the engineering dept. responsible to the Captain. Destroyers had a well equipped workshop, and if we didn't have a part to refit a main feed pump or a turbo-generator, often we would make one. Proven leadership abilities were essential prerequisites for promotion , and most of my mates & I stuck it out for 20 years or more, most reaching the rank of Chief Petty Officers, some Warrant Officers. They were some of the most talented and dedicated men I knew, I doubt you or your mates would have ever met one in a professional capacity.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Bookmarks