Earlier,1971, returning from the Med we got airborne in a Wessex 3 and circled and photographed a Sverdlov cruiser from the permitted height and range (which we had to estimate by eye). Every one of its guns followed us around .... I remember that it was a little uncomfortable but they didn't shoot!
Later, or the following year, like the above, I also got airborne at night from a DLG with the tail lashing still attached. It gave us a rather unexpected sharp pitch nose up but as I held it in the hover above the deck I was relieved, after a short delay, to hear that although we had got airborne with the nylon lashing attached it was not locked and had pulled free. Nobody's fault, just one of those things where the FDO had seen the lashing number clear away from the aircraft and believed the aircraft to be free. I guess we were lucky. That's the nature of accidents/incidents.