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| After leaving the Apollo I was sent to HMS Dryad to do another radar course, before joining the Jupiter, the Jupiter was a really good ship, another Leander class frigate very similar to the Apollo but this time not Portland squadron! I met some brilliant mates on the Jupiter and thought I would mention a few of them in case they are reading this and might want to get in touch. |
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Bob Hartnup |
Ross Merrick |
Basher Briggs |
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John Winfield |
Primo Harding |
Snowy Winter |
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Bob Hartnup was the old man of the sea, he was the "killick" in charge of my watch in the ops room, I learned a lot from Bob. I would like to thank Bob and Dave Page for recently getting in contact with me, great to hear from old ship mates. Basher was a really good mate and run ashore oppo to boot. Ross was an excellent bloke, so good we named our son after him. John and I had some good adventures together. Come on lads you must be on the internet by now, where's my bloody e-mail.
The Jupiter was captain of the seventh frigate squadron which basically
meant we had a real four ring captain as opposed to the rest of the squadron which had three ring commanders as captains |
HMS Jupiter at Setubal |
My good mate Basher Briggs |
| One memorable moment on the Jupiter was taking part in the Queens silver jubilee. We were part of the Spithead fleet review, when we used to have enough ships to have a fleet review. I will never forget practicing the three cheers for when the Queen sailed passed, we had to shout hip hip horay and wave our caps in a circular motion three times. It was quite embarrasing doing it alongside one weekend, the only people who saw it were a couple of dockys going past in a small boat. |
Dave Paige & Bob Hartnup |
Jupiter at the Spithead review 1977 |
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