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slips by fast.

Bill McAllister

I remember it well. For some reason, I particularly remember Dr Jensen walking up and down on the bridge on departure, no doubt for the benefit of the media. We had all the major newspaper reporters sailing with us and had to radio their various reports back to their respective editors on a nightly basis. It was as a result of the volume of traffic and hence the radio room literally overheating that Peter MacNab had special vents cut into desk tops, under which the power units were housed, to dissipate the heat from the units which kept 'tripping out'

Happy days

Keith Butler

It just seems like yesterday

My association with her goes back even further, I was working on her before she was launched

Jim Howard

The World was so young in 1961 - how time flies! Many fond memories of a formative part of my life and a first voyage to sea and foreign parts

Peter Roberts

...I can't forget that, date It was my birthday....!!!! I think

Ian Browne

That's half a century ago.
I'm going to have a lie down now

Frank Galway

Ah yes! Those were the days


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