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On Patrol, Norway and South Georgia
Posted: 04 Jul 2006, 22:43
by david balmer
Posted: 05 Jul 2006, 00:25
by DaveB
David..
What's the Leander in those shots?? Never been down there but curious as I know Andromeda was down there prior to me joining :think:
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Posted: 05 Jul 2006, 01:43
by david balmer
Last trip for HMS CYILLA spelt it wrong but you get the idea. last steam tubine leander . falklands 1993. later that trip the crew went down with scarlet fever and as such went off duty. So the protection of the 200 mile exclusion zone fell on RFA Gold Rover . with fixed 20mm guns and chaff rockets. :think:
the photo was taken in stromness bay, South Georgia. resupply run for the military base. also deployment of gurkers.
Posted: 05 Jul 2006, 10:55
by DaveB
Rgr that David (and that would be Scylla)
Andromeda was the last warship built in Portsmouth which, even in '86 when I joined her seemed odd to think that ships were actually
built there!! Watching 5 dockies carrying a 6-rung ladder, it's hard to believe that
anything ever got finished!!
Leanders (Guardships in general) had a habit of going tech.. particularly if off the UK coast and particularly if it was Friday!!
ATB
DaveB :tab:
