[BITList] gosport

[franka]

Colin
When I was doing my time in H.M Dockyard Portsmouth I'm sure the special 
boat squadron used to operate out of sultan it was all very hush hush 
and I don't remember anyone ever going in there from the civilian side 
but I suppose some must of. We fixed the MTB,s in the dockyard only one 
that I can remember though was one called the grey goose which held 
alsorts of records and was being used as an experimental bed towards the 
end of her life, thing that sticks in my mind mostly though was the 
amount of bonding that took place on these boats to try keep the static 
electricity down which built up due to the high frequency vibrations in 
the hull as they moved though the water at high speed, in those days 
sultan used to be on the Portsmouth side of the water suppose they moved 
it over to where Dolphin ( the old submarine base)was when they moved 
the subs to Scotland,
frank


On 5/16/2011 11:16 PM, x50type at cox.net wrote:
> oh, right, frank - me next to a scottish soldier?
> re your mum - somebody with a sick sense of humour there -  being offered a
> job in hull after being bombed in gosport.................................!
> incidentally, I attended the nuclear propulsion long course at 'sultan' in
> gosport - lived in lee-on-solent at the time.
> loved it
> colin t
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: franka
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:06 AM
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> Subject: [BITList] who - me - hopeless
>
> Mike/Colin
> My mother was the district midwife in Gosport which was bombed most
> nights and she was offered the job in Hull this supposedly quite little
> fishing village on the north east coast and as they say the grass is
> always greener, frying pan to the fire as it turned  out. Colin you
> posted a picture of yourself at the York museum.
>