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Old 19th Aug 2007, 10:22
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Apropos the Daring class names - pity Decoy is not being revived. Was a Midshipman on the old HMS Decoy back in the 60s - in the days when you went on a 'Flag-showing' cruise i.e. CTP to CTP with not a lot in between. I seem to remember that SNOWI (Senior Naval Officer West Indies) at the time was a bachelor who had two 'XI's of eligible unattached females for the said Cocktail Parties - his 2nd XI was wheeled out for the official one on the Quarterdeck, but his 1st XI was kept back for the post official thrash down in the Wardroom. Happy days.

Decoy and her sister ship Diana were sold to the Peruvians in the 70s - Decoy became Ferre, swapped her Seacat missiles for Exocet and has only just in the last year or so been decommissioned. Not bad for a destroyer laid down in 1949. And to think in the 60s we were not allowed to do much chipping of the hull for painting in case the chipping hammers went through the hull!
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