AH! A
liberty boat. No wonder we had a problem!
What, in public! Oviously not career officers schooled in the ways of Lord Trenchard's General List Commissioned Crab. South Cerney has a lot to answer for!
They had to get in our boat. It was the only one leaving at the time...
What I couldn't understand is why we had to take a jolly liberty boat at all. The port side of HMS Goldcrest was firmly secured to the dock. When we returned from lunch we simply walked aboard up the gangplank. We'd have saluted the quarterdeck too - if we only knew where it was.
This is the bomber contwoaw-laar. Awert cwews to weadiness zewo two!...Dive, dive dive.