September 6, 2006

Submarines: A Tale of Low Sheen paint...

I was reminiscing with an old shipmate from Repulse the other day and boy did we laugh!

We were talking about the day that Rod and I were sent out in a rubber dinghy with a pot of Low Sheen paint and a roller. We were in harbour tied up in the Gare Loch at the time and it was necessary to row out to the rudder in order to paint it black. So off we went and rowed up to it. I dipped the roller in the paint while Rod did his best to keep us close the rudder itself! I then rolled the roller up the rudder. We hadn't thought of the consequences of this, but we immediately headed out into the Gare Loch and I nealry fell in!

We laughed ourselves silly over this ridiculous situation :) No matter what we tried each time I tried to roll the paint on the rudder I forced us away from the boat ROFL It still make me smile when i think of those days :) It took us all day to paint it and we gathered quite a crowd of laughing sailors on the jetty watching these antics! Including the PO who had assigned us the task in the first place :)

Mark..

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April 19, 2005

Submarines: A leaky Tale

Welcome Ashley and thanks for your comments :) I don't often post about my submariner past (official secrets act and all that)! But I thought I'd tell you this tale from when I was a junior seamen operator second class! (lowest of the Low)

We used to have a family day on Repulse where we would invite familys onboard and take them out to sea for the day. Anyway what we failed to tell them was that our main access hatch leaked like a bastard down to about 50 feet :) and you can see it clearly along one deck passagway from the control room!

So off we go along the Gareloch and head off up the Clyde. We get out into the Irish sea and start to dive, and of course water starts to piss in through our main access hatch ha ha. Man you have never seen so many poeple go white in your life! I was on the CEP plot at the time and just sniggered (being young and fearless) for which I got a cuff round the head from my XO LOL Suffice it to say that the wives present became even more worried about what their hubbys did for a living.

Yes Submariners are

A. Very Odd
B. Slightly Mad and off centre

Mark...

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