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·I have a few issued timepieces from the Falkland war era. Figured I would post them.
First up my CWC issued Chronograph.
Issued in 1981
Next up my Elliott British Navy deck clock from the right era and possibly on one the Naval ships that served during the war.
Here are a few photos from my cruise book from the USS Proteus AS-19 when I was aboard it we were in Diego Garcia a little atoll in the Indian Ocean around 1981. Was on a sub tender a ship that does maintenance to submarines but in Diego Gacia we did Maintenance to any type of ship that came along side. We were anchored in the middle of the bay there. On a tender we have anchors on both ends of the ship so when you anchor to service ships you stay put and don't swing. Because ships getting service tie up to your ship. We used liberty boats to get to shore we had a 40ft and 50 ft UB boats for that the captain had his own boat a captain's gig. We had a barge tied to the ship with a brow to walk down to from the ship to get to those boats. The water can get rough there, so we welded car tires to the bottom of the brow to roll with the waves. The Boatswain said paint the tires like white walls so now we had white wall tires our liberty boats tied up the barge so made it easy to board them to get to shore. Long story short the HMS Shefield came along side for some maintenance they use our liberty boats to get to shore they only had one two bars on the island so the only place to get drunk. Dam we were burning up and the brits were nice and cool they got to wear shorts as part of their uniform and sandles. Plus, they even had a bar on board I was told. We got to know there crew pretty good and even had a long talk with their XO that's a story in itself. And the war in the Falklands broke out they had to rush and get there. And was not a great outcome for them. From what I read about it was when the Exocet missile hit took out the loop system that's what charges the sea water for charging the fire hoses if their navy like ours then you set up portable pumps as a backup and throw a hose over the side to suck sea water up to charge fire hoses makes it tougher to try to save your ship and your trained hard to save it. Just too bad they weren't able to save there's. A sad ending to their ship. A few photos from my cruise book.
Photo below of the USS Proteus AS-19 believe this it was in Tokyo harbor at the WW2 surrender ceremony. The actor Toney Curtis was a crew member then. The US Navy use to keep ships a very long time and get their money worth out of them.
First up my CWC issued Chronograph.
Issued in 1981
Next up my Elliott British Navy deck clock from the right era and possibly on one the Naval ships that served during the war.
Here are a few photos from my cruise book from the USS Proteus AS-19 when I was aboard it we were in Diego Garcia a little atoll in the Indian Ocean around 1981. Was on a sub tender a ship that does maintenance to submarines but in Diego Gacia we did Maintenance to any type of ship that came along side. We were anchored in the middle of the bay there. On a tender we have anchors on both ends of the ship so when you anchor to service ships you stay put and don't swing. Because ships getting service tie up to your ship. We used liberty boats to get to shore we had a 40ft and 50 ft UB boats for that the captain had his own boat a captain's gig. We had a barge tied to the ship with a brow to walk down to from the ship to get to those boats. The water can get rough there, so we welded car tires to the bottom of the brow to roll with the waves. The Boatswain said paint the tires like white walls so now we had white wall tires our liberty boats tied up the barge so made it easy to board them to get to shore. Long story short the HMS Shefield came along side for some maintenance they use our liberty boats to get to shore they only had one two bars on the island so the only place to get drunk. Dam we were burning up and the brits were nice and cool they got to wear shorts as part of their uniform and sandles. Plus, they even had a bar on board I was told. We got to know there crew pretty good and even had a long talk with their XO that's a story in itself. And the war in the Falklands broke out they had to rush and get there. And was not a great outcome for them. From what I read about it was when the Exocet missile hit took out the loop system that's what charges the sea water for charging the fire hoses if their navy like ours then you set up portable pumps as a backup and throw a hose over the side to suck sea water up to charge fire hoses makes it tougher to try to save your ship and your trained hard to save it. Just too bad they weren't able to save there's. A sad ending to their ship. A few photos from my cruise book.
Photo below of the USS Proteus AS-19 believe this it was in Tokyo harbor at the WW2 surrender ceremony. The actor Toney Curtis was a crew member then. The US Navy use to keep ships a very long time and get their money worth out of them.
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