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22nd June 2013, 02:47 AM
#1
A requiem for long-silent foghorns? This is going
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22nd June 2013, 03:58 AM
#2
Really good!
That really sounds so good,and although its a Lighthouse Horn brings back the memories of all those Ship Horn blasts from the past!
Excellent!
Thanks
Just turn the sound up close you eyes and you are back to where it all beganQ
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22nd June 2013, 04:04 AM
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Just turn the sound up close you eyes and you are back to where it all beganQ[/QUOTE]
What, you mean down at the Vindi, starving, frozen and having to put up with some mad cap officers??


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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22nd June 2013, 04:28 AM
#4
For you poor Guys !
For you poor Guys i suppose yes,but for me well i just entered into the good life staright from the Streets! haha!
How wonderfull that was!
A young Lad with a dream to go to Sea,and Bingo!
It all happened in a flash!
Cheers
Mind you i had my days of all the Shite,when training at the SASSAR Wingfield Aerodrome serving all those bleedin hungry and unmanerly MP's could have screamed at times!
Also in the RAF on the 8 Weels Squarebashing Course at Bridgenorth in the cold Winter of 1959!
Hit those Rifles you Orrible little Men shouted Corparal Nimmock!
Our hands were nearly falling off with the cold!
Ah! the good life i still say!
Cheers
http://www.rafbridgnorth.org.uk/peop...atoon_new.html
Thats me marked as Mac
So many more memories i could sit and gabber on about,but its all done and dusted now,its just me and the old Cow! LOL! Shhhhhhhhhhh!! The trouble and strife never saw that! haha!
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 22nd June 2013 at 04:38 AM.
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22nd June 2013, 04:41 AM
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Legs eleven abd all that:

Originally Posted by
Doc Vernon
A young Lad with a dream to go to Sea and Bingo!
Know you were at sea:
Did you keep up the Bingo ?
K.
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22nd June 2013, 09:29 AM
#6
every ship had a sound
Hi shipmates, The fog horns put me in mind of lost souls a fitting sound to all our lost ships and seaman, nothing like a heavy fog and the sound of ships very ghostly on watch dark shapes' in the fog and the bells
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22nd June 2013, 09:47 AM
#7
Wakey Wakey
Friday, last session of the day I asked all my foreign students what they would be doing Saturday morning (today). Sleeping was the common reply.
Hah! thinks I, you obviously don't read the local paper. Souter plus 55 other ships blasting away will most likely wake the dead in Harton cemetery.
The blast is being synced using GPS and the sequence has been composed by some famous musician, should be an interesting morning, weather not too brilliant though, cloudy with the odd spot of rain as of 10:45 local
cheers
JA
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22nd June 2013, 09:55 AM
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Last edited by Don Rafferty; 22nd June 2013 at 10:25 AM.
Don
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22nd June 2013, 10:45 AM
#9
Whistles/Foghorns/Klaxons
Those who have had a heavy night in the pub will think they have slept through to the new year. John Sabourn
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