Russ Hall BEM

Ex RN & DCP MCA/RYA SCV Skipper, YM Offshore, APBI & Volunteer Ship Visitor @FoweyDocks 🛳⛴🚢⛵️🚤🛥

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@RDPHistory @TogeoffH She’s nowhere near the last Falklands ship. Maybe the last in UK service if you don’t count Sir Tristram at Portland which still provides service. But there remains a few around the World still in service with other navies. For example former HM Ships Leeds & Dumbarton Castle.

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@UKForcesTracker @RoyalNavy @RFAArgus @AWenham1 Not quite the final veteran of the Falklands War. Former HM Ships Leeds & Dumbarton Castle still in service with the Bangladeshi Navy are still going. Maybe in the UK but there’s others around the World. You could say she’s finally STUFT!

[The Mission to Seafarers @FlyingAngelNews]

The latest #Seafarers Happiness Index has raised troubling concerns about economic pressures are taking their toll.

Read the full report here: https://t.co/QrlWTXzneq

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@AWenham1 @HMSTrent @NavyLookout @WarshipsIFR @WarshipCam @warshipworld @seawaves_mag @UKForcesTracker @UKDefJournal Still no one in the W Indies then?

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@Russ_978 @MarkFra42642062 @UKDefJournal December 14th 2021 for the RAF. Mind you doesn’t mean there’s not a case to disband them. 😂😜 It was a drone apparently. Before that 1948 unless you count 1982 RN Harrier flown by RAF pilot who later saw the light and transferred to RN.

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@NavyLookout @HMSPWLS Think I’d prefer a crossing the line certificate than a blue nose one! No need to pack the Union Jack Speedo’s and a severe lack of banyan and bronzeying opportunities then?

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@HalBeowa @TimHirst5 @NavyLookout @HMSPWLS What’s the measure of deterrence then? Is it that we have not been attacked by another nation or some other metric?

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Sad to see. The ship I went down South on in 1982. But more importantly brought me back. 😢

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@NavyLookout @HMSCalliope I vaguely remember a great run ashore there!

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@IntercityFC @MtarfaL Alternatively an excuse for one of us to leave the gloom room, pop up to the bridge and take a look ourselves and if, as I was, a ships phot take some pictures. 👓📷

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@matelotjonah Pussers right angle every time. As a dabber not qualified to operate any of the others. But as a BM or QM armed with one can find and wake up someone who can in any mess deck gulch. Sign here mate!

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@pati_marins64 Great to see a Leander derivative still going in the video. One of the old Dutch Van Speijk-class.

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@simonharley Never under estimate the ingenuity of a matelot when it comes to beer. It was three cans per day per person perhaps in my day. We never exceeded that ever 😇. Ships are full of voids. 😉.

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@MartinJConnell Had to keep mine for 3 years and produce it once a year for the £100 bounty during the reserve period. I got docked 99p on the last muster by some pencil neck cos I didn’t have my plastic mug!

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@Richard75595792 @OnthisdayRN @RoyalNavy Tis true. I vividly remember our P.O. Instructor at Raleigh supervising us marking in our pay books that we were smokers. Still got that pay book somewhere. Unusually I quite liked blue liners but not as much as DF branded Kingsize cigs on seagoing ships.

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@InspGadgetBlogs NPS Crest is done.

[Kent Police (UK) @kent_police]

WATCH officers from our Search and Marine Unit attending a distress call in the Thames Estuary where they rescued two men who had become trapped by the tide. Click the link for more information - https://t.co/QnjCReFi93

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https://t.co/t62K7OUeHG

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@junglejim11 @PFM192381 There’s no pot on the old scheme. So if you pay tax you’re still paying mine. No idea how much. Cheers and keep up the good work. I kept my part and a bit more of the bargain now it’s your turn. 👍

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@bluenobby Same here. Choose your branch take your chance.