Wonder if he's had a squiz at this vid?

I was on her from Nov 77 to Nov 79, sweating my arse off in the galley! I was based at Stirling at the time DSTO made a mess of her. Got a good view of the explosion from Camp Markham.

Was normally my emergency/action station. Long way down, good fun at speed in heavy weather.

Mel was onboard then, what time in the clip we looking at?

Just used a Galaxy S3 lol.

Hi SMOBY44, glad you liked it, hope you can check out maybe a few other videos. Only regrets are that I should have taken better care of physical tape media before digitizing. We did work with USN, RN and many other Navies back then. Our DDG's had Ikara instead of ASROC ASW missiles, gave them a slightly different look. Thankyou. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdh8hsiVy53cf30.html

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Try looking at the 3.30 min mark, tube only gives me approx 100 characters for the title, can't name them all.

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There's more to see in some of the other videos on the channel.

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No doubt about the "Armchair Admirals." Rough seas, crowded seas or UNREP at night all present potentially deadly challenges. My first UNREP was at night on the Atlantic with a sea running, line handling. At times up to my ass in cold seawater, tons of fun and no one hurt.

@@robertf3479 Yeah. We had a nasty one in Perth during a RIMPAC and another Up Top in SWAN. Also in a Korean frigate which left a couple of tons of dieso on the fo'c'sle. Their skipper was not a happy camper. And some may disagree but I'm with you. They always seemed more fun in heavier weather. Typical of matelots at least after the event?

@@andrewstackpool4911 What a lot of people who've never been to sea don't realize is the precision and attention evolutions like this require. F'ing up will put ships in the Body and Fender shop and probably kill people. I was standing watch on my ship's Bridge when this happened. We were fueling at night near Sicily and a damned Italian trawler deliberately steered to pass between our DD and the oiler. If anything had gone wrong during the Breakaway you can guess what could have happened. We ensured we had all the appropriate lights burning bright and the oiler's Captain called the trawler on Channel 16 to warn him off. The blast of seafaring language (in ENGLISH) from the trawler told us exactly what he thought of Americans and pointedly refused to shear off. People like this trawler skipper are a special kind of hazard. I wouldn't put it past an enemy (a-hem *China*) to pull some crap like this to cause an incident.

@@robertf3479 Yeah. But the good thing is that in that sort of scenario the screen should be able to assist them decline. The best one I had was a nutjob in a yacht who was in a crossing situation while we were RASing with the old SUPPLY. YUP. He was to starboard on a steady bearing. We tried to raise him on Ch16 and by sound signals but he wasn't having any of it. We commenced an emergency breakaway with everything shipshape but too late. He was caught up between the two ships, passed down the sides, dismissed by the jackstay and the yacht turned to driftwood by multiple collisions with ship sides. We got clear and recovered the bloke who started screaming and ranting about how steam gives way to sail, he had right of way as on our starboard bow etc etc. Our captain had a major dummy spit, dragged him by the scruff of the neck into the chart house, got the COLREGS open at the right spot and shouted 'read that you fkn moron!'

Yes, a different era, there's quite a few other dits on my channel, mainly Westralia but plenty of RAS' with various ships, welcome for a gander.

My first watch in 2 Fire, I was asked "What would you do if the Steamer dies on watch?" I won't tell you the answer lol.

​@Nibby12 my first watch in one fire near killed me. Water tender showing me and a couple of other guys how to clean the salt water strainers on the force draft blowers. I'd been sent up to close the salt water cooling calves, which I did, securely. Problem was the inlet was defective, and didn't stop the 110 psi fireman. I was undoing the strainer, and as I got it undone a fair way, was still tight, and I said, don't think it's shut!! Told to keep going and bang, the strainer let go and missed my melon by inches. Put a ding where it landed, and would have taken my head off. Welcome to the fireroom.

Glad you enjoyed it, I'm on the hunt for a better copy to digitise.