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hms eskimo in 1963
written by john skinner(bootneck)
 I was in the first royal marine detachment to serve on board her,our (ocrm)was paddy saunders(ltrm)csm andy anderson,21 marines,i rember the captains name was humfrey barker,we had a good tour of duty in the med,an unexpected trip to bombay after running aground in bahrain.We were toed ther by a tug in tail end of a typhoon
ON the way back to pompie the usual runs ashore gib, malta,i remeber the ships crew by sight but now i couldn"t name much of them (father gamson(ab)arthur clough,robbie burns, I hope some body out there rembers that tour or any of the crew |
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