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Nick Name:Mac
Service Number:P/MX******
Ship/Establishment 1:Royal Hospital School Suffolk - 1 (1947-1951)
Ship/Establishment 2:HMS Fisgard - 2 (1951-1953)
Ship/Establishment 3:HMS Collingwood - 3 (1953-1955)
Ship/Establishment 4:HMS Adamant - 4 (1955-1957)
Ship/Establishment 5:HMS Undine - 5 (1957-1958)
Ship/Establishment 6:HMS Collingwood - (1958-1960)
Ship/Establishment 7:HMS Blake - 6 (1960-1963)
Ship/Establishment 8:HMS Collingwood - (1963-1964)
Ship/Establishment 9:HMS Hardy - 7 (1964-1965)
Ship/Establishment 10:Kenya Navy Training Team (RNTT Kenya) - Electrical (1965-1968)
Ship/Establishment 11:HMS Neptune - AFD60 (1968-1969)
Trade: Electrical Branch
Ship/Establishment 12:HMS Londonderry - 10 (1969-1971)
Ship/Establishment 13:HMS Collingwood - (1971-1975)
Rank:Chief OEA(L)
Year Joined:1951
Year Left:1975
Where are you now?:Retired.

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HMS Blake at anchor.
HMS Adamant Submarine Depot Ship. My first ship.
HMS Undine Capt F6.
HMS Blake FOF Med. Taken on Contractor's Sea Trials
HMS Blake in Livorno (Leghorn).
HMS Hardy Type 14 A/S Frigate.  Good ship, hard work!
Kenya Navy (RN training team)KNS Simba.  Accompanied draft Mombasa!
KN Rating.
Stern shot KNS Chui at 26 knots!
KNS Nyati, (ex-HMS Aberford Seaward Defence Boat)
AFD 60 (Admiralty Floating Dock).  Drafted here after Accompanied draft to Kenya.  A good draft and hard work docking down Polaris Boats in all weathers.
My last seagoing draft in RN!...before 31/2 years ashore as an Instructor in HMS Collingwood, then civvy street!!
HMS Blake floodlit.  The floodlighting was a bit of a pain, rigging and unrigging! The effect is worth it!
HMS Undine Type 15 A/S Frigate  Capt. R. Hart F6.
HMS Blake on Contractors sea trials
Another of HMS Hardy.
Some of 6th Frigate Squadron.  
From top: HMS Undine F6, HMS Ulysses and HMS Ursa.
Replenishment at sea. (RAS) Blake storing from RFA on Starboard side, Blake taking FFO from tanker on port side and destroyer taking FFO from tanker, on tanker's port side!
Another of HMS Londonderry.
This was 51 years ago!!
Two KN patrol boats lead three RN Minesweepers into Mombasa.
HMS Blake in St. Lucia.
Admiral's manoeuvres.  Close call!
Blake floodlit in Grand Harbour, Malta.
HMS Blake. Steaming.
Blake - Replenishment at sea.
HMS Dunkirk D09, breaking away
Some more.  Blake. W. Indies sunset
Blake, from colour slide. Tobago.
Myself, 4000ft up in Monserrat (France)
Another sunset. Blake.
Light jackstay transfer. Brown trouser job!!
HMS Undine Leaving Portsmouth 8-5-1957 for GSC Med.
Commissioning Ceremony HMS Blake...Fairfield's Yard Govan. March 8th 1961
Another of Blake on CST.
Ships my father served on.
HMS Ramilles.
HMS Ajax
HMS Titania
1926/7 HMS valentine
Ships my father served on.
HMS Royal Oak. 6 Jan 1926 - 31 July 1926
HMS Greenwich
Father served on her, Nov 1932 - 1934
HMS Blake in rough weather when searching for survivors of
Another in
Calm after the storm.  Look at the power in the screws.
Ploughing in.
Sunset and fine in Med after the storm.
HMS Blake in Grand Harbour.  Picture scanned from a colour slide I took at the time.
Another of Blake, again from a colour slide.
Just for Sheila...Green and White still going strong every year in Pompey!
HMS Collingwood Badge.  Served many times in Collingwood over 24 years service.
HMS Collingwood Apprentices' Band
HMS Collingwood
 The Black Mountains.
Another of HMS Londonderry Type 12 A/S Frigate, before conversion
IFOS 2005
Romanian ship. RS Mircea
QE2, Red Arrows and Concord.  Found this!
IFOS and Fleet Review 2005.
HMNLS Urk
IFOS and Fleet Review 2005.
HM Danish Ship Ebsern Snare
IFOS and Fleet Review 2005.
Indonesian ship.
KRI Dewaruci
HMS Hardy 1964. Type 14 A/S frigate.
IFOS 2005 Estonian Navy Ship Admiral Pitka.
On the same
Kenya Navy Training Team 65/68
Cdr EMC Walker RN. Cdr. Kenya Navy with President Kenyatta.
KNS Simba being built by Vospers Porchester.
Patrol Boat Squadron en route Seychelles.
KNS Simba Ship's Bell.
Exercising en route.
Took this phot of HM The Queen outside portsmouth Dockyard, 2005
Cdr EMC Walker RN, Commander Kenya Navy, with model of KNS Simba.
Spinnaker Tower. Portsmouth.
RNTT Kenya 1965-1968
HMS Adamant Christmas card 1956.
Hms Adamant ship's badge.
HMA Adamant.
First Foreign! Bermuda.
IFOS 2005. Huge ensigns on vessels tied up at South railway Jetty, Portsmouth Dockyard.
IFOS 2005 Brazilian Ship Cisnebranco
IFOS 2005. Irish Navy Vessel Eithne.
HMS Warrior April 2006.
I am tooooooo young to have served on her!!
HMS Cyclops.
One of the ships an uncle served on 1926.
The end of Hardy....Target ship...sunk by an Exocet missile from HMS Phoebe
Hardy...in better days!!
.....not to mention Nelson!!
Fleet Review and IFOS 2005...Portsmouth Dockyard.  Actors obviously!!
HMS Londonderry....conversion to Trials Ship
Fleet Review and IFOS 2005....terrible weather but clearing so Red Arrows did display...this for the Ladies in the crowd!!
Smokey Joe!!  Indian Navy Ship, making smoke all the way into Pompey Dockyard.
One of the smaller
IFOS 2005...HMAS Anzac (Australian Navy) entering Pompey after the Fleet Review.
HMS Warrior and Prtsmouth Dockyard. Took this from the top of Spinnaker Tower. The colour is due to the tinted glass at the viewing platform.
Another visitor under sail to IFOS 2005.
Colombian Naval Training ship Gloria.
Amerigo Vespucci and American Training ship
Ellen McArthur's vessel B & Q IFOS 2005
Another visitor to IFOS. Russian Navy Ship.
Not quite the fire power of the last one!!
More from IFOS 2005. Canadian Naval Vessel.
IFOS 2005. Colombian Navy Vessel Gloria and the massive ensign!
German Naval Frigate.  IFOS 2005
Italian Amerigo Vespucci. IFOS2005
The genuine article for all those familiar with the one gallon stone jar in wicker basket, containg RN Rum.
USS Oklahoma at 90 degrees during righting after Pearl Harbour.
Oklahoma again after being righted.
USS Oklahoma at 17 degrees during righting.
Sea Harrier FA2 landing on Ark Royal.
Beached Japanese mini-submarine, after Pearl Harbour
Testing pilot's skills against sea swell.  Helo HMS Cornwall.
Year not known.
7th DS. HMS Jutland, Dunkirk and Trafalgar.
HMS Sabre ..a turn of speed
year unknown.

HMS/M Dreadnought.....motoring!
For Michael.

Vernon site as is now...Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth
I was not in the Merchany Navy but this photo is of the world's largest ship. It has been renamed a few times and the name on the bow is not its present name!
Holyhead dry dock, which no longer exists.  It has been filled in.
Ray.
HMS Exploit.
Admiralty Floating Dock (AFD60).  Hard work but a
A genuine unopened Victualling Yard gallon jar of the Golden nectar....The real


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Remembrance Name:Christopher John Docherty




By chance i found this web page didn't really did not know what to make of it, maybe another bunch of chancers, on becoming a member, within ten minutes of browsing the web pages, a good mates details from thirty eight years ago appeared in front of me,we went to h.m.s.st.vincent for basic training and then posted to r.n.a.s. h.m.s. condor for trade training, on completion 1969 i went to h.m.s.goldcrest r.n.a.s. brawdy, he went to h.m.s. fulmar(lossiemouth) then we lost touch, our paths crossed but we didn't know it until nowJohn Lovell




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