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[dunedin]

Ahh, a memory. Was on a Nicholson 55 from Joint Services a few decades ago. We got a berth in the middle of Hamburg. A rather large motor yacht docked fwd of us called Highlander. It was kinda British Racing Green with a gold stripe. It's helicopter (gold with a green stripe ) was called Capitalist Tool. When we pointed out that taking off at 0630 near a yacht with hungover crew was a bit antisocial, they really didn't give a rats bottom. Fair one!!

Go on, do tell what clever and daring scheme the services crew came up with to extract their revenge on the Highlander …..

 

[Greg2]

Ahh, a memory. Was on a Nicholson 55 from Joint Services a few decades ago. We got a berth in the middle of Hamburg. A rather large motor yacht docked fwd of us called Highlander. It was kinda British Racing Green with a gold stripe. It's helicopter (gold with a green stripe ) was called Capitalist Tool. When we pointed out that taking off at 0630 near a yacht with hungover crew was a bit antisocial, they really didn't give a rats bottom. Fair one!!

I remember a very pleasant trip to the Channel Islands and France on one of those Nicholson 55s in the mid-eighties when I was based at Dolphin (must have been some kind of punishment draft as I was never a submariner). No unpleasant encounters with large motor yachts though.
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[The Q]

Another here who did a trip across the channel on a 55, HMSTY Racer. About 1982.
The RAF station said I couldn't go because of lack of man power, so I put in leave for it.. ( if it wasn't football or cricket then getting time off for sport was near impossible)
Once the leave was granted, I got the trip booked, accepted ...
Then I cancelled the leave.. because they had found the manpower to replace me.