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Plumbers aren’t as important as they used to be, they are now Trade Gp 2. Jelly Tot also gone.

I’m earlier times, was the bridle dropped in the sea after every shot and a fresh one used? Edited, answered by the narrator.

My father was at Ganges in 1940, he left the RN in 1954 PO Electrician. His last ship HMS Aisne, which was scrapped many years later at Inverkeithing close to where we lived. He was sad to see her scrapped.

Those old fashioned starting System on the bucs and the unique strange Front wheel of the phants.... Old fashioned and strange.... Today every US carrier is decades ahead in Technology. And even UKs VSTOL F-35 are much better in Everything. An interesting movie from an old Analogue age though. 👍

We thought Netherthorpe was short! What a bunch of turkeys we were haha!

Do they get thermal undies and an electric blanket?

So sad to see any ship being treated like this. I know they learn from it, but it still feels wrong. I served on the Glamorgan.

Fab video, thanks

I served on Five 78-80. Seaslug took up most of the space in the County Class which made the Junior Rates messdecks large and overcrowded. Horrible ships to live on.

Ahh yes the good old days when you tube wasn’t littered with adverts every 2 minutes

Before GSM mobile, when you could clearly hear any background conversations over an analogue phone. Now it's digital it's a garbled unintelligible cacophony.

Security’s not a dirty word Blackadder…

Watched this as a civilian supplier back in the 80s.

If the RNLI can confirm to me that the Government pays them for all these immigrant transports then I will re-commence my charity payments to them

My Uncle was the commodore of the Blue Funnel line and brought one of those multi container ships across from Argenina via Far East, Africa and home to Liverpool, When he arrived he was summonded to London, where he was greeted with a chicken salad spread, many staff, and told he was no longer required :-)

old ships - 78 to 81

Think Russian.

Only time you see a chief on the line, must be a camera there

Imagine us having something called an 'armoured reserve'

Bloody hell! I had to watch this when I did my pilot training at Middle Wallop back in 1988. I can remember to room laughing at the thick Russian accents. Thanks for sharing 👍

Heady days of Vikky 10s and Hercky Birds. Nostalgia creeping in...

And everyone in the chain signed a very important little bit of paper at one time......OSA.....it still happens, only now with the massive scope of 'social' media and smartphones, it spreads like wildfire.

Is this a spoof?

Watched this while on a training course at RAF Hereford in either 84 or 86 and never saw it again until now!

No ear defends! This is not reality!

Not a black or Asian face in sight. Perfect.

They added a stone in weight because they came from a ghastly life of working class poverty……

A ditty box…..football boots with leather soles and nailed in studs; modern 🏳️‍🌈 footballers would need counselling if shown those.

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

Went out for a gathering with some fellow former military friends recently, what a giggle, then the ex raf policeman turned up 🤦‍♀️

Junior Parachute Company. There was nothing Junior about it.

I'm only a land based pilot, but to my eyes, you can't do a 'bolter' with the crash barrier in the raised position?? Great video all the same.

Taxiing for take off with RBF pins still in.

Love that older SABA CDBA and SDDE etc diving kit and now collecting any i can find. lovely quality compared to later stuff which is more or less modified civilian kit.

When england was england and when men were men

could of used that ship in the Falklands

This is a good one!

Then after a few years in the job, you become fat, REALLY fat, unless you're RAF Reg - cynical, but true.!!

Great to see this. My first tour of Bruggen was 82-85 so there when this was filmed. Great times. Second tour of Bruggen was 94-96 . Different vibe to it then. Still a great posting.

who knew we were such a homogeneous society even as recently as the 70s

Good for a healthy complexion.

Its always impressive to watch the ballet of an aircraft carrier flight deck. All the skills that the RN have lost and now have to rebuild with their new aircraft carriers, albeit simple operations without CATOBAR operations but still. Good luck to all!

When we had a navy!

I always wondered why there were all these long poles sticking outside of aircraft carriers, I thought they might have been something to do with the safety nets or navigation lights, but now I know they are/were communications aerials it is a mystery solved, apart from the fact that with all the superstructure they didn’t put them up there, surely reception would have been better?, but I suppose there is a logical reason why they weren’t, perhaps someone who knows about such things could enlighten me. I wasn’t Royal Navy so I don’t know about their protocols surrounding the daily checks of the flight deck equipment but I would have thought that it would have been a rating or one of the LSOs assistants who would have done them, the LSO is obviously a pilot and therefore an officer so I doubt it would have been them that did it, but again, I don’t know Royal Navy protocols and hope someone will enlighten me. Ah, the dreaded F-700, I had 24 years of the paperwork, especially in my last posting, 10 years as a maintenance team leader, and tbh the number of amendments to the 700 and aircraft documentation in general was enough to make my head spin, get it wrong and an aircraft accident happened because, for example, the pilot/crew didn’t know a system was inoperative and they tried to use it during flight or in an emergency (although aircraft were not allowed to fly with an emergency system unserviceable), the ramifications were such that, at best, a slapped wrist (meaning that promotion would be nonexistent depending upon severity of the mistake) or, at worst, legal proceedings or a General Courts Martial could be made against the last person (excluding the pilots signature), known as the coordinator, to sign the aircraft up as being ready and serviceable too go flying, it was/is a legally binding signature, and a huge responsibility, and when the pressure is on to get the aircraft ready to fly, especially at short notice, can, no sorry, is a huge job to get done in time, and more importantly correctly, and that person was me, and all the training in the world only scratches the surface of the job, and I never thought that I would end up being a pen pusher and desk jockey but I did and it made me realise why the coordinator would sometimes be a little touchy and scream at people who were not pulling their weight, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, best years of my service. It is a great narration to this video, but, and there is always a but, the narrator calling the S.A.R Helicopter a “He-Low” is an Americanism and not (at that time) The Queens English, it is a Helicopter, or the terminology we used for them “Cab’s or Cab”, just as an fixed wing aircraft is either an aeroplane or aircraft, it is NOT a “plane” a plane is a woodworking tool, if any of my team had said “He-Low” or “Plane” they would have got a very swift re-education from one of my Junior N.COs around the back of the hangar, not hanger, hangar, hanger is for hanging clothes on, unless your a singly living in the barrack block and then they would hang their uniform/clothes up on the floor.

Went to Arborfield at 16yr old, 28th June 77 first day of the rest of my life. I t certainly shaped me and prepared me for life. The new ish Foundation college system isn't a patch on the junior leaders or Apprentices system. We were trained by some of thr best soldiers in the world Our drill instructors were from Guards Bde Each Coy had a Guards CSM anf the College RSM was also Guards. Mit Trg Instructors were Para Regt , LI, Argylls to name but a few. Our trade training instructors were all ex Tradesmen IIRC so they knew what they were talking about because they had done it. And they all made an impression on a 16 yr old lad straight out of school.

Good to see the old HMS Tamar block during my visit back in the 80's working with the Gurkhas

I served on Newcastle and Ledbury in the 80s, and Ledbury is still going. Just a shame about the sound

Served on Achilles 75-77 including the collision with Olympic Alliance.

In 1975 I was in 1189 Sqn ATC. The drill hall was above a snooker club near Fratton, Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth. I used to walk to the ferry in ammo boots and greatcoat thinking the girls would flock to me. That didn’t happen! I joined the army in 1978. The army careers office was on Cambridge Road on route from the drill hall to the ferry. Surely the girls couldn’t resist a soldier! Such will power back then and self-restraint. 😊

:"So you've been stupid.." You wouldn't get away with that today!