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Old 9th Mar 2022, 21:25
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Originally Posted by Asturias56
"Navy recomended sydney"

Some thing s never change - there was tremendous reluctance of in the RN to relocating to Scapa Flow from the Firth of Forth (Edinburgh) pre WW1 largely on social grounds

and of course the DNS/DE&S organisation designing warships was in Bath - very nice to live but about as far away from a major shipyard as it was possible to get.
Wonder why this post makes me think of a RAAF base near Newcastle.

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