Retired Guy Adventures: So you could go in his backyard. Jesus do you realise how large their bloody backyard is?

Please note-- it is the BRITISH ROYAL NAVY. I am Scottish but served in two Leander class frigates in my many years in the service along with many other Scots, Welsh,Irish.

@@thetruthisoutthere2076common mistake made by our American cousins, along with using “the” before HMS ####

Did SNFL twice still have the coffee mug I was given by the independent hospital corpsman in December 84 whilst in Halifax, Nova Scotia from the USS Aubrey Fitch, the coffee mug still in commission.

That's pretty cool. My ship, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. DD850 was on the same exercise. We lost a couple of single screw destroyers when they lost power. One had to be towed back to port. The waters were rough, the temperature was cold and the crew was sent out to chip the ice off the ship.

Rick Morgan Achilles class could be a very suitable first of class name for the Type 31s

Achilles sold to Chilean Navy in 1990 ... PFG- 08 Ministro Zenteno ¡¡

In 1979 I was a cook serving on HMS Hermes, I worked on USS Saratoga whilst we were in Mayport. Happy days

@@tee2899 almost like we served on different ships together ... :)

@@rickmorgan3930 you are spot on there Rick. I understand that the Saratoga is now a man made reef somewhere in the Atlantic ocean off the East coast of the USA.

when and who was that ? ex comms cherry b.

zetlander Soaghar My brother enlisted in 1972, Patrick Mullan he was a Seaman Gunner, after his initial training the RN flew him to Singapore via the U.K. to Diago Garcia and onto Singapore, really enjoyed himself there! When the ship finally sailed going to Japan they ran smack dab into a typhoon or so he said! Fun and games were over! Ha! Ha!

La ROYAL NAVY si mal no recuerdo : sólo desplegó 1 sóla Fragata de la clase Leander ... la HMS ANDRÓMEDA si no me equivoco de nombre ( lo lei de un reportaje de DISCOVERY CHANNEL a la Guerra de las Falklands en Abril de 1982 )😎

we always at your service god save the queen

Especially standing shoulder to shoulder when going glug glug glug

USN crew love to visit the bar on RN ships

Not forgetting the fact that the founder of the U.S. Navy was a Scotsman, John Paul Jones.

A bit like me asking the PWO(U) if the contact i had was a submarine.

@@JohnRWMarchant lol

They probably would in today's navy Salty. No Tiffies left. What a mistake that was.

@@robotsnthat Not sure the MEO would know, Yours Aye, Buster.

I was a volunteer on her when she was in Glasgow. It was a tragedy she was allowed to rot in Birkenhead then be towed to Turkey for scrapping.

I'm mates with Cooks Darby Allan and was with Paul McMurrough RIP. I served with them both on Hermes late 70s

I served on the Plymouth in the 80s I remember we crashed into a German frigate in the Baltic then sailed into Karlskronna Sweden for emergency repairs.

Hms Rothesay best

HMS Hero the most famous and the most numerous there was more than one 42! (Just viewed this post 1 year later how on God's earth did I originally post HAS Hero?)

Always like the look of the Amazon.

@@flybobbie1449 I agree the type 21s had beautiful lines, shame they were prone to melting.

2nd to Tribals ;)

Well spotted

How did they compare to the Perry-class?

Loved leanders. First time was a visit to the Bacchante as a baby chef in Chatham dockyard. Then served on Diomede 86 to 88.

I served on HMS Jaguar for two years before it went to your Navy.

@@ancientmariner3077 It's a pleasure to know this. The ship was very durable.

My old ship HMS Diomede went to Pakistan late 80s

HMS Phoebe aka HMS Hero (yes we know there were others) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLKKpqeZldu2ZnU.html 45 years later doesn't that still just look like a warship!

Thank you for your service, sir! You must also add appearances in the series 'Warship'...clips from the RAS were used in the 4th episode of the first season and the gun loading sequence was used in the opener of season 2.

@@FutureCanadaBlue I watched this last year, but I'm just watching again after watching episodes of warship after coming back to this film again and thought about the Phantom's attack. Might look at Warship's RAS scene again too. Many Thanks!

Royal, you were the best on that capstan! 😂😂 In all seriousness though, why the ship had to leave Madeira without any explanation was a bit crap! The officers had serious plums in their mouths too. That weren’t a bad film, made i laugh anyway and bought back some memories. Loved the matelot reading the jazz mag, as you do! 😂😂😂

me too - 66 to 67

Phantom's ugly compared with Buccaneers As a kid had the "privilege" of living under the flight path of planes doing circuits & bumps at De Havilland's Hatfield little did I know I would later spend 2 years with them on HMS Eagle

That's true. My father spent time in SA with Buccaneers when the UK government sold a squadron to the SAAF (at Waterkloof).

Sam F: One of my flight instructors was pretty senior at Waterkloof. Initials AS. Was on Dakotas before Buccs. Know him? Small world if so.

No. As achild I was never allowed on the base.

+Rovejag Hi. The funny thing is, about the Brits', they don't seem to get it together on the sports field. But, when it comes to taking the gloves off, fixing bayonets, they become a pretty ruthless bunch without even thinking about it. No bravado, no razzmatazz, just 'Tommy' following orders. I guess the same can be said for the Aussies, Kiwis' and Canuks'. There again, we Brits' are a warrior race - the result of one hell of a tribal mix from way back when. I served as an officer within the British Merchant Marine for over twenty three years. In my early years I came up against many public school types, mainly Navigation Officers. But, as the years went by, their numbers dwindled as a more professional and sensible breed took their place. I sailed on over eighty ships in my time, a good ninety percent of the time with ship mates who I would sail in the same lifeboat with. In fact, I use that maxim in my daily life when assessing other members of the human race - no matter, race, colour or creed. Are they the type to sail in the same lifeboat of life, willing to watch your back - if not, stay well clear! As regards the Leander - nice looking ship for her time. Though, I could never understand such poor hitting power provided on RN ships of that era - was it their Lordships' choice, or the buffoons down at the ministry exercising their budgetary constraints?

+William Rance Too bad that nobody in the Admiralty ever grasped how many submarines we didn't have in the South Atlantic. (Before the Argentines converted them all.)

+William Rance I know the Type 42s were the smallest design possible to carry Sea Dart, and think the Br philosophy was 'save pennies'. Compare the USN Spruance class: when they appeared, ignorant critics said 'They're cruiser-size, why so few weasopns?' But they were big enough to take 2 helos, reloads, CIWS, Harpoon, then Tomahawk when it came out. The Argentine T42s hit the limit by taking 4 Exocets aboard. Steel is cheap and air is free; build ships big and they're more flexible and useful.

Hi, Jeremy. Well, I don't know your nationality, Jeremy. But, let's think you are a none Brit. If so, you will probably not be aware of our politics and how one silly member of parliament with no training or knowledge of military matters can be sent on a fact finding mission to a shipyard, look at the plans of an intended guided missile destroyer, ask 'what's that empty deck space for on the back end of the ship (Helicopter deck) and in order to gain brownie points with his political master's, and save money, have it removed from the final build of the ship. That included the rear hull that was supposed to accommodate essential electronics etc. That ship was lost in the Falklands conflict, hit by an Exocet! Should that same ship had been constructed as intended, then, perhaps it would have survived such an attack by carrying the intended countermeasures to have dealt successfully with such an attack. It proves one thing! Keep the politicians in their playground, where we can see what they are up to (Houses of Parliament, Congress or whatever!) and leave such matters of military procurement to those who know best!

+Jeremy Bateman " Steel is cheap and air is free; build ships big and they're more flexible and useful." Yeah but you'll need bigger engines to keep the same speed and same re: youe fuel tanks. There will be anart to designing ships so thy can ride a sea well, are agile, fast, have good roll characteristics, etc, etc.

The good old Creed Model 75 Teleprinter. 40 years on I could still strip one to component parts!

+ToonandBBfan Phalanx wasnt operational until 1978! :) they did have the sea cat missiles (aft upper deck, port side). the first surface to air missile system, even beating the USA. I served on a Rothsay class frigate, very similar.

+ToonandBBfan the average float time of a Leander or similar under concerted conventional air attack was only about 5 minutes. But they and earlier ships were suitable for Plane Guard for carriers who should be detailing planes to protect them.

I'd like to see how that mortar would fair against a Soviet sub, let alone the gun against a MIG!

We lived on a Banshee Ave. in married quarters, when I was a kid.

GREAT NAME

+maconsumner Yeah, that would be one very wet, very dead ship.

+maconsumner the Gun is 4.5", common mistake

+maconsumner Thankfully things have improved with the advent of Sea Wolf, Sea Dart and Sea Viper although we do still train to use the 4.5in deck gun in the AAW role. To be fair, a near miss would probably be enough.

I was also surprised (& horrified) to see the attempted use of FLAK 30 years after WWII.

+maconsumner I was on the Jupiter in '73. When there's an air raid I guess you just throw everything you have at it. Either they only had one camera and chose to show the 4.5", or the Seacat was too expensive for a TV show. Anyway, even with the 4.5" I think idea was to make it as difficult as possible for the attacking aircraft to get a straight targeting run. On the subject of 'liberty partners', thank you very much for your compliments. I think, if I were to differentiate between the Brits and the Yanks ashore, you guys always seemed to want to have a fight with one another, and the Brits just wanted to dance with one another (which usually ended up in a fight with the Yanks :)).

I served on Diomede 86 to 88, ex LCK, not long before she was sold to Pakistan

Yep, Sirius had 184 too. I did the 184 course but never worked on it, It performed well in casexes, although not hugely better than a 177

+SteamboatWilley LOL all the ships officers are going to cocktail partys and just being pictured with all sorts of chicks, must have been a promotional film. join the navy, youll get laid haha, meanwhile sailors back on the ship with a penthouse

I was on that trip, as an artificer apprentice. ("Isaac"). I have some great pics of the coronation in Tonga, such a lovely relaxed atmosphere, as the king (Queen Salote's son) walked back from the white painted wooden cathedral to the adjacent white painted wooden palace, just 20 yards from us. (ask your dad about the very friendly Fijian girls....)

@@Pippins666 wow, small world. The old man passed away 2020 at 78, are u a member of the Sirius Facebook group?? Would love to see any pics u have?! ⚓️🇬🇧

@@shodansmith my reply seems to have disappeared. Not on FB (spent too long in information security). I used to run a sirius website. My first chief was a CEA Smith, tall friendly guy going bald. Any relation?

@@Pippins666 No the old man was a diver Smith DA, tall but not balding! 😉

Zebfriend - the French I agree have intense and proper national pride, our government in the UK lets us down all the time. France has excellent military equipment and design, the Rafale is a brilliant plane no question. But WE in Britain have the know-how to build our own, but we have shitty politicians who haven't the balls, like the French have. But we're still better than the French, who are really just there to be beaten most of the time/throughout history. We could look at them as testing our weapons and tactics. As for sharing our aircraft carriers, no, thanks, WE here, should have our own Navy. But don't forget, the Rafale is not entirely French... the Martin-Baker zero-zero ejection seat, the Rafale uses in case you are too thick to realise is BRITISH!

Actually, I know ALL those things, but you're just a small-minded bigot yourself, who doesn't like the SAME thrown back at you! And of course, I know Martin-Baker of Denham too. I have a friend who actually LIVES there whom I visit, what the FUCK has that got to do with you actually 'not' realising the Rafale HAD one! You are the greatest fuckwitt - I suggest you crawl back in to the loony bin you came from and talk to the wall - as your comments are wasted as are, you, tit.

At least Harold Wilson told the USA to fuck off when they wanted us to join them in Vietnam - allegedly after they betrayed the UK over the Suez crisis and rightly so.

Yes he saved many British lives by not getting involved

So true, thankfully, Pat ;o)

I served on two EURYALUS and CLEOPATRA and I agree about the crap sea boats and I thought nothing could be more bouncy until I picked up the INTREPID in the 80s, you haven't felt anything like a flat bottomed assault ship in roughers!

@@pfbryant5117 agreed about Intrepid! 4F1 mess, or on watch in one of the switchboards during a winter storm off Norway was not the most pleasant place to be. Character building though! 🤣

Hms Plymouth and Hms Onyx now no more.( Scrapped)

HMNZS Wellington, Waikato & Canterbury use to regularly shot the towed air targets out of the sky... Wellington with her RCA76 radar use to track up the tow cable... lol

Hi I was the clubswinger on Jupiter on the West Indies deploment

i did nubian in the late 70

I've confirmed it wasn't Sandy Woodward. Sandy was already in command of his own SSN by the time this was filmed.

I thought GMDs look great