A Fond Farewell
It’s with a touch of sadness that I add my voice to those saying farewell to “The Crazy Red Chicken” as we called her.
Today was the final decommissioning ceremony of HMS Liverpool. She was my home for a while last year, and we had some good sport (READ HERE).
The chaps at the ministry claim that she is being replaced by Type 45s. Well I’m not sure how good you are at maths, but there were 16 type 42s and there will only be 6 Type 45s!!
The type 45s are not even ready to take over! The one that the Argies are currently complaining about is still tied up in Pompey! The others have many “teething” issues that would stop them doing anything like a decent job, or even putting to sea in some cases!
The long “ribbon” you see on the picture is her decommissioning pennant. It’s length is based on her years of service.
Goodbye Old Girl. Thanks for the fun.
Not sure even where to start St.C
You know that I was familiar with the Seadart room of the Glasgow and every time I shave these days I wonder where the scrapyard metal has come from.
The 42s were great ships.
For those who don’t know you get a length of decomissining pennant for each year of service and the ‘Pool did her bit. Overdue for a rest but as St C says…what fills the gap?
Just for you, a 5 gun salute being returned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPsjle7Q4oc&feature=youtu.be
Nice! Does anyone know what the morse signal being flashed is?
Well I can ask the guy who the ship was answering, as I was too busy laughing my head off at the poor frozen piper, but it would have been goodbye and good luck, the video missed out our five gun cannon salute, we gave them the same welcome when they came in, on some videos Iv’e seen of the Liverpool coming in you can see them replying to our Aldis lamp morse from about 1mile away in the Crosby channel, the poor boat wasn’t half kicking out some smoke.
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