A remarkable life
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Bill McCarthy wrote:The yacht was a very unhappy time for me in the mob - it’s propulsion and auxiliary systems were a missmatch of odds and ends of ancient spare parts from the rest of the surface fleet. It’s crew accommodation areas were terrible - I slept in a hammock in a main corridor and movement aboard was severely restricted when “they” were on board. Promotion was “dead man’s shoes” and there were many “groupies” jockeying for position. I was very lucky to escape it and alas, as such, I recall very few names from that time.
Bill McCarthy wrote:Oh, I certainly made up for it for the remaining years !!
Bill McCarthy wrote:Every TV reporter has thus far failed to pronounce the name of the school “Gordonstoun” properly.