HMS Invincible Departing Portsouth For The Last Time
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Didn't have much to do with the aviation side. We were shifting dry stores, mostly bog roll and beans!
Well, according to some froggy upstart 'an army marches on its' stomach' :it seems the Admiralty are content to drag their arses !
Well, according to some froggy upstart 'an army marches on its' stomach' :it seems the Admiralty are content to drag their arses !
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Bye bye 'vince. Another old ship bites the dust, well I remember (well I don't) tumbling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. I awake to such lovely naval-isms as 'one hand for the ship, one hand for yourself'... couldn't you have told me that before I fell down the bloody stairs! (WAFU so they are stairs not gangplanks or ladders of companionways or whatever )
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Invincible deserves a salute in the form of a flypast.
No Sea Harrier in the Historic Flight ? Can't be the Admiralty embarassed about stupid decisions while sitting on fat pensions, surely ?
No Sea Harrier in the Historic Flight ? Can't be the Admiralty embarassed about stupid decisions while sitting on fat pensions, surely ?
Suspicion breeds confidence
For those that did not read Jeremy Black's memoirs in his book "There and back"
He recounts one episode when his ops team called "Torpedo in the water". The contact was confirmed, Invincible went to to full speed to stern the target and evade. 820 Sqn was launched to prosecute the datum. No Result. Make your own minds up.
Navaleye.
He recounts one episode when his ops team called "Torpedo in the water". The contact was confirmed, Invincible went to to full speed to stern the target and evade. 820 Sqn was launched to prosecute the datum. No Result. Make your own minds up.
Navaleye.
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HMS Invincible is presently just off Sohail Castle, Fuengirola, moving very slowly down the Med.
Have been watching her progress for the last hour or more. Beautiful clear day.
Have been watching her progress for the last hour or more. Beautiful clear day.
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