mmmmmmmm digressing just a little in the dockyard life
Most members would not have experienced spending a night shift
1800>0600 on the floor of a graving dock
Many many years ago
one of my fellow Garden Island Naval Dockyard "below water weapons" foreman was needed to spend the all night dark hours looking after an FFG sonar dome repair
Needless to say
he was ill & I copped the shift
& @ 0200 not a sound........ but then......
scamper....scamper ....scamper......the dockyard
RATS came out.......they were as big as
cats .... not nice
......
I am sure even the Smiths dockyards of earlier years had the same sized dockyard rats
................Derek