hemisinus

[Stewart Mulvenna]

Hello Carol,hope you are well?I was 2nd Steward on the Hemisinus when the Rocket hit your cabin/office.Hope Ray is well.I will never forget that trip or that day.I would love to read your book .Please let me know cost and postage and details of where to send payment.
Thanks Stewart Mulvenna.

[john evanson]

I drydocked on Hemisinus in Sasebo in 1974 as 5/E. Joined in Singapore January 1973, had to have haircut before allowed into country.

I remember you joining Graham... guess its the haircut that triggered the memory! I was one of the first trip cadets who'd been aboard since October 1973 - but we paid off before the DD after having done various out of P Bukom inc Anchorage, coast of Borneo and multiple Da Nang / Nha Trang runs (who else had a go at throwing the stun grenades while discharging cargo..........??!!)

[Rob Cumbes]

Hi Keith
I was a deck cadet on the Saigon Flyer in 70/71. Had my 18th birthday anchored off Vung Tao and got put on the shake in the middle of the night to weigh anchor so the Mate didn't have to get out of his pit. I don't think the Old Man liked me much! No worries, I reckon I was the best paid apprentice in the fleet on what seemed permanent double pay - about £70 a month. Luxury!!
On my first night in Nha Be, someone dropped a percussion grenade alongside to deter divers. No one had warned me. I was out of my pit dressed and carrying a lifejacket down the alleyway when it dawned on me. Living midships over thousands of tons of mogas, avgas etc there was no way that i would be alive if it had been an explosion. I went back to bed.

[Malcom McHugh]

[I] was on the Hemisinus just after she came off the Saigon Run in 1975 and took her to scrap in Taiwan , I have plaque given by the South Vietnamese Navy for her service

[wayne rizzo]

that would be me. i done six months on her. galley boy 16 years old. best adventure ever. yeah, we got blown up. The worst one hurt was the chief steward as far as i remember

[wayne rizzo]

hi, just saw this post. i was the galley boy on her when she got hit.

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i was got blown up. i was 16 best adventure ever

[Tony Taylor]

hi, just saw this post. i was the galley boy on her when she got hit.

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i was got blown up. i was 16 best adventure ever

Good job you wernt on her a few trips later, I was on her when there was a fire alarm and there was much smoke coming from the galley boys cabin after he left a hot iron on a plate on his drawer top, plate cracked and iron started to beun the top ogf the drawers. Fire team found a live grenade on there after the smoke cleared.
I also got a call down below one night at about 02.00hrs from the second mate asking if I could hear gunfire, how do you expect me to hear anything down here I said, well, I am getting the old man up as I can hear it and we are well away from the coast. The old man and mate found two ABs firing some sort of automatic weapon off the poop,