Pull up a bollard - Memoirs of a Matelot.

[Civvy Scum]

Navy not considered as being buggered nightly is not my idea of fun

Yet shagging things that are elephantine is?
You are a strange, strange person.

 

[Grim_Squeaker85]

Heterosexual's what?

Clap?

 

[Scaley Albereto]

Yet shagging things that are elephantine is?
You are a strange, strange person.

Strange in as I like my sexual encounters to involve a moist nubile female & not taking it up the hoop from some hairy arsed salty seadog.

Indeed, point taken, in the modern woke world I am indeed strange....

 

[Ravers]

 

[jrwlynch]

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It was a bit of a change from the grot on Manchester, that's for sure...

 

[Ravers]

It was a bit of a change from the grot on Manchester, that's for sure...

Batch 3?

Pure luxury.

 

[bentobox]

Batch 3?

Pure luxury.

What was the difference?

 

[RBMK]

What was the difference?

About 13m length and 0.6m in the beam.

ETA, 42s were always cramped and the Batch 1s didn't have enought space for a proper ops room IIRC

 

[jrwlynch]

What was the difference?

Longer hull, which meant more room (both in places like the Ops Room - the 'stumpy' Batch 1 & 2 42s had such small Ops Rooms it was easier to go out & around 2 Deck than to try to elbow your way from one side to the other - and in the accommodation) and better handling.

The Batch 3s were the size the design were originally meant to be, the stumpies were cut down by the Treasury to 'save money' which meant less space and also some of the rush jobs to shorten the ship made that worse: there were hydrodynamic issues too, the stumpies were slower and a lot wetter forward because the hull had been designed properly, then hastily shortened, but still had to fit around things like the Sea Dart magazine.

If you were getting a RNR weekend of "this is how you play Officer of the Watch, it's really hard to do properly, don't imagine that just because you're in a blue suit you can drive a ship", back in the day we always used to get a T42B3 because they were the sporty ships, at least in the simulator.

 

[bentobox]

Longer hull, which meant more room (both in places like the Ops Room - the 'stumpy' Batch 1 & 2 42s had such small Ops Rooms it was easier to go out & around 2 Deck than to try to elbow your way from one side to the other - and in the accommodation) and better handling.

The Batch 3s were the size the design were originally meant to be, the stumpies were cut down by the Treasury to 'save money' which meant less space and also some of the rush jobs to shorten the ship made that worse: there were hydrodynamic issues too, the stumpies were slower and a lot wetter forward because the hull had been designed properly, then hastily shortened, but still had to fit around things like the Sea Dart magazine.

If you were getting a RNR weekend of "this is how you play Officer of the Watch, it's really hard to do properly, don't imagine that just because you're in a blue suit you can drive a ship", back in the day we always used to get a T42B3 because they were the sporty ships, at least in the simulator.

Thanks, if anyone is further interested (or wishes to re-visit their past) here is an interesting set of photos:

Type 42 – Naval Matters

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[alfred_the_great]

They stank of poo, and were full of scabies.

And PFKs - unless you’re so old you were a Rosyth rating (eh! In the manner of a Fifer)...

 

[LeoRoverman]

About 13m length and 0.6m in the beam.

ETA, 42s were always cramped and the Batch 1s didn't have enought space for a proper ops room IIRC

would that be 16ft 3ins and about 2ft in old money. That's almost enough for half a car.

 

[yendor1958]

would that be 16ft 3ins and about 2ft in old money. That's almost enough for half a car.

About 42ft 8ins by 2 ft

 

[RBMK]

That 42' or so would squeeze a lot of matelots in - or else give the existing ones more room to roll over in their pits.

 

[monkey123]

About 42ft 8ins by 2 ft

your bird's arse ?

 

[monkey123]

That 42' or so would squeeze a lot of matelots in

his bird's arse ?

 

[RBMK]

room for a teddy bear each instead of having to share.

 

[Solo Dave]

They stank of poo, and were full of scabies.

And PFKs - unless you’re so old you were a Rosyth rating (eh! In the manner of a Fifer)...

PFK?

 

[Harryc]

PFK?

Penis Feeling Killicks?

 

[supermatelot]

PFK?

Wah shield on...

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