How about handing someone a grease gun and sending him up to the bridge with
instructions to grease the Relative Bearing? Worked great!
Robert Barber wrote:
> All you ground pounders missed out on the canoe club (as
> in US Navy) versions... Sent out for lengths of water line,
> getting the mail buoy watch, the keys for Davy Jones locker
> ect .... fun stuff
>
> Bosun Bob B USNR-ret
>
> >From: Gavin Broad <invest@portsmouth-mann.com>
> >To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
> >Subject: [MV] From the stores.......
> >Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:38:10 +0700
> >
> >Hi List,
> >
> >Inevitably, new apprentices are the subject and butt of many jokes and my
> >apprenticeship at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard was no exception....... being
> >sent to the stores for a "Long Weight" upon which the storeman disappears
> >for a cup of tea and returns 15 minutes later to ask you if that was long
> >enough.....
> >
> >Tins of elbow grease..........packets of sky hooks.........tins of large
> >and small circles.......left-handed
> >screwdrivers.......spurlash......torpedo tube reamers....all invaluable
> >equipment for maintaining HMVs
> >:-)
> >Gavin
> >
> >
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