Actually one ship, the Flying Breeze, it was a tug
tender similar to the Calshot, I was out the factory,
the next morning I went in and there was a Bosun at the gate
waiting for me. He said you'd better go down and have a look at
the Flying Breeze, she was on the bottom. Apparently,
... they'd taken a big sea valve adrift and unbeknown to them she
was sat on the mud and of course the tide had come up during the
night through this aperture of about 18 inches and just filled the
ship, right up with water, and she just completing a refit so this
ran into many thousands of pounds.
Question: What happened?
Oh, I had to go in front of the committee and a court of
enquiries and I was thrown off the ship and banned from (laughs)
going on the ship again, you know.
