Sending you a couple you might want, I took them in 1982 off the Minches, we had an American exchange pilot flying the Wasp and he was a plain nutcase, thought he was still in Vietnam. I have some posed crew photos from the same era somewhere, will have a hunt for them.
We were sent to STANAVFORLANT at the outbreak of the Falklands to relieve a Type 21 so she could go south, moral was appalling and culminated in a mutiny when we left Sniffle, the skipper would not let us perform the usual antics and ordered us to line the ship in Procedure Alpha and cheer ship, we refused and had to skulk off back to the UK without any leaving ceremony at all. Thankfully they replaced him with a guy who was a total star.
Crew of HMS Arethusa, think this was 1983 on the way to Fort Lauderdale.
Mike Loring HMS Arethusa 1982-1984 LWEM(R) - APOWEM(R) Ikara Tracking and Guidance Maintainer Operator
2 comments:
Hi, I served on HMS Arethusa in 1988-89. I'm sure i have some pictures somewhere - final crew photo just before decommission.
I will dig them out and send to you.
Regards,
David "Snert" Smith - Ex Mem(M)
David, I look forward to seeing the photos and will publish them as soon as i am able.
Mitch
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