All you ground pounders missed out on the canoe club (as
in US Navy) versions... Sent out for lengths of water line,
getting the mail buoy watch, the keys for Davy Jones locker
ect .... fun stuff
Bosun Bob B USNR-ret
>From: Gavin Broad <invest@portsmouth-mann.com>
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: [MV] From the stores.......
>Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:38:10 +0700
>
>Hi List,
>
>Inevitably, new apprentices are the subject and butt of many jokes and my
>apprenticeship at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard was no exception....... being
>sent to the stores for a "Long Weight" upon which the storeman disappears
>for a cup of tea and returns 15 minutes later to ask you if that was long
>enough.....
>
>Tins of elbow grease..........packets of sky hooks.........tins of large
>and small circles.......left-handed
>screwdrivers.......spurlash......torpedo tube reamers....all invaluable
>equipment for maintaining HMVs
>:-)
>Gavin
>
>
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