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wegman58 -> RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years (5/3/2015 11:06:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Chris H
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ORIGINAL: wegman58
This makes me feel OLD. First time I crossed an ocean was in a task group with the rather new HMCS Huron, another TRIBAL. In 1977 for the Naval Review for Elizabeth's 25th anniversary as Queen. When HURON was the star of 'Sinking a destroyer (one of the 'learning' type channels) some years back I was going - I remember when it was NEW! (Then I did the math).
I only did 25 years in the US Navy with some broken service and coming up on 12 years retired.
Must make me feel old as well. I was at the Spithead review that year and although I don't remember her I must have seen her. By coincidence I was on another tribal, HMS Nubian, all-be-it a frigate. As a souvenir I have a beer tankard of the review engraved with the Queen's head and the ships that took part. The most important word in my reply is of course 'beer'[sm=00000436.gif]. So here's to her, the ship that is. Ok the queen as well.
Considering there were over 200 ships at the review, forgetting a little frigate probably isn't hard. We came over across the Atlantic with her - I don't remember her from the review but from the transit. I remember a Fleet Air Arm Bucaneer HITTING a cheap (Man sized, Chunks of wood put together type thing) target with a 10 pound smoke bomb in the afternoon - in the morning the Fleet Air Arm didn't come close. On the way home there was a SINK-X featuring a ship that may have been in the game, a WWII DE we gave to the French and didn't want back. (June/July 1977, off the coast of France, if any of the data gathering types want to look it up.)
And the Canadian Tribals were home built, with the new fangled gas turbines, different from the RN Tribals.
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