is due to sail up the Mersey and past Cammell Lairds today between 11 and 11.15am. it will give a gun salute to the shipyard before it heads south to be de-commissioned.
Hiya Bert, you don't receive the golden rivet, you look for it and it is usually at deck level, for the uninitiated so to speak. The reward is received when you bend over to look closely at it. Ouch! There is a fine example of one in the RNA Club, Park Road East. Just ask where it is and you can have a look at it. When you think about it seafarers of any persuasion are a mad bunch of b......s.
I also took my dad for a look around the ship on Saturday.Worked on it in Lairds and did the sea trials on her etc. She was in very good condition and its a shame its just going to be scrapped.
A "boat" is a submarine, the Campbeltown is a ship. Honest!
I hope flying boats don't go sub-aqua
"The Historic Ships Committee have designated a vessel below 40 tons and 40 ft in length as a boat. However, submarines and fishing vessels are always known as boats whatever their size."
Never tried the barrel, been in a torpedo tube though, to grease it up. Sounds lewd but someone had to do it. Not as bad as having to go down to the bottom of the periscope well to clean that out though, worst job I have had to do, talk about being double jointed.