Thread: Help.....I can't decide

Originally Posted by bongo

Phrank, you are one of a kind, Sir !!

Thank God!

Originally Posted by DaveTheGeordie

I don't recall seeing a razor in Nelson's possessions. I spent a good bit of time aboard HMS Victory playing in parts of the ship tourists weren't allowed in.

I may have missed it. He had a rather nice cabin.

Very cool - I visited, "The HMS Victory", in or around 1978-79, was stunned at how low the ceiling was on the lower decks...needless to say, at 6' 4", I would have been a lousy powder monkey!

Remember reading some of the letters home in a wonderful book I have, especially one from a 12 year old boy, who later fell from the rigging and died. The level of literacy was astounding, by today's standards a University English Prof would be hard pressed to write as eloquently!

You are truly lucky to have spent that time on the HMS Victory, that battle transformed Britain into the undisputed ruler of the oceans and sea's virtually until the sinking of, The Hood by the Bismarck....oh crap...look what we have now, an English razor, British naval power, and the Bismark all in one thread!!

Originally Posted by Phrank

Very cool - I visited, "The HMS Victory", in or around 1978-79, was stunned at how low the ceiling was on the lower decks...needless to say, at 6' 4", I would have been a lousy powder monkey!

Remember reading some of the letters home in a wonderful book I have, especially one from a 12 year old boy, who later fell from the rigging and died. The level of literacy was astounding, by today's standards a University English Prof would be hard pressed to write as eloquently!

You are truly lucky to have spent that time on the HMS Victory, that battle transformed Britain into the undisputed ruler of the oceans and sea's virtually until the sinking of, The Hood by the Bismarck....oh crap...look what we have now, an English razor, British naval power, and the Bismark all in one thread!!

My wife was a tour guide on board so there were a few perks.

We had dinner on board on trafalgar night in 2005 where I expertly concussed myself when drunk on one of the said low ceilings.

What a night!

Aye, watch the low overhead he says. Dinner on board the Victory on Trafalgar night is to be cherished for life. Well, at least it would be by this former member of a Navy spawned by the RN.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Aye, watch the low overhead he says. Dinner on board the Victory on Trafalgar night is to be cherished for life. Well, at least it would be by this former member of a Navy spawned by the RN.

Bob

It was a cracking night. A little too much port though me thinks.

While my wife worked on board there were some great nights. Bit of a duck out of water though as I was a soldier not a sailor. The ships company disapproved

A Pongo in Pompey, what next. Disappointed, no tots of rums neat. I have visited the Victory a couple of times and am always impressed by that magnificent ship. Very happy she is preserved. Anyway her is to the old girl and tradition.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

A Pongo in Pompey, what next. Disappointed, no tots of rums neat. I have visited the Victory a couple of times and am always impressed by that magnificent ship. Very happy she is preserved. Anyway her is to the old girl and tradition.

Bob

No, there was rum. It was in a large clear bottle with a little dymo label saying RUM. Nothing else at all on it. Lethal stuff, not the faintest how strong it was.

The captain was quite forgiving of my lack of navy mess etiquette, not one port fine imposed although I'm sure many were incurred. I take it you were a matlot?

My wife and I used to visit the Victory whenever we visited with a friend in Southampton, many years ago now. I remember the first time on board, and seeing the brass memorial plaque on the deck. It was set into the timber.

There was a guy who was meant to give tours, but we were the only people that day so he just let us wander about. He saw us looking at the plaque and came over. I couldn't resist pointing at it, hoping he would say the right words - ie, read out the words inscribed on it. He obliged me by intoning in a sombre voice "Here Nelson Fell."

When I told him I wasn't surprised, I had just tripped on it too he just looked at me. The wife was no help and I wilted a bit under the combined, withering stares. No sense of humour, some people.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

My wife and I used to visit the Victory whenever we visited with a friend in Southampton, many years ago now. I remember the first time on board, and seeing the brass memorial plaque on the deck. It was set into the timber.

There was a guy who was meant to give tours, but we were the only people that day so he just let us wander about. He saw us looking at the plaque and came over. I couldn't resist pointing at it, hoping he would say the right words - ie, read out the words inscribed on it. He obliged me by intoning in a sombre voice "Here Nelson Fell."

When I told him I wasn't surprised, I had just tripped on it too he just looked at me. The wife was no help and I wilted a bit under the combined, withering stares. No sense of humour, some people.

Regards,
Neil

That sounds like my wife's sea daddy/mentor called Pete. Lovely caring chap but not once did I raise a smile. Another guide, a fellow gunner, said all radar techs were like that. Something about having to carry a handbag their entire careers

Could have been, Dave. Personally, I think he was so straight faced because he had had to listen to that joke about a million times...!