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Seejay
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:53 am |
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Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the second has passed away a short time ago in Scotland.
Fair skies and a following sea to the very epitome of a Monarch, one who held fast to her beliefs through some terrible times.
_________________ ![Image](http://www.ran-skilledhands.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10006/QLD-70.gif) Chris O'Keefe R43136 Ex WO Chippy 19th MOBI Intake July 65 to July 85 HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra. Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:14 am |
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There are no words I can utter to match the flood of tributes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at her passing earlier this morning, our time, suffice to say, to all who served in her name, today marks the... ![Image](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52344172395_97db429dab_o.jpg)
_________________ ![Image](http://www.ran-skilledhands.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10006/NSW-70.gif) Rick Pengilly WEBMASTER Ex-CPOMTH3 R42630 13th MOBI Intake July'62 to July'74 HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:28 am |
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While many world leaders just use the position of power and become tyrants, our Queen has always been a stabilising influence across the commonwealth and never used her power for any evil. RIP Lillibet ![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/xTVhzjbB/Salute-1.jpg)
_________________ Brian Carney R43371 Ex-WOMTP5 22nd Mobi Intake Jan 67 - Jan 89 RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:20 am |
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A job very well done with great pride, aplomb and often enjoyment in sometimes difficult times. BZ! Vale your majesty, RIP with your beloved Prince Phillip, and thankyou for your selfless service. ![tear :tear:](./images/smilies/tearyeyed.gif)
_________________ Mike (Pony) Moore O42860 Ex-LT GLEN(ME) 16th MOBI intake Jan 64 - Jul 88. Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:01 am |
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Vale Your Majesty.RIP
_________________ Peter Ferris R65102 Ex-WOMTP5 Direct Entry Mar 1966 to July 1987 Cerberus X 3,Waterhen x 4,Supply, Gull,Ibis, Paluma, Lonsdale, Flinders x 2,Curlew, Snipe, Carpentaria, Nirimba, Adelaide, FHQ (DEE)
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:14 am |
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Vale Her Majesty QE2
First saw you in Perth in 1954 when you did your first Royal Tour of Australia
Proud to have served you
Charles Britt JP
_________________ Charlie (Chuckles) Britt JP TPI Welfare Pensions Officer R95712 Ex-LME(D) LSMTP2 17th Intake JR's, 23rd MOBI Intake . Oct 66 - Nov 74 Leeuwin, Nirimba, Cerberus, Stalwart, Cerberus, Waterhen, Penguin, Carpentaria, Dolphin, Penguin, Sydney, Albatross, Leeuwin, Acute, Leeuwin, Cerberus, Stalwart, Waterhen, Attack, Leeuwin, DEE.
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:21 am |
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_________________ Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes R94714 Ex-CPOMTP(D)5 Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th) Jan'65 to Mar '88 Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:33 am |
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What an impressive display of royal pageantry we witnessed. This was really special, memorable and terribly sad ......... The end of an era.
_________________ Brian Carney R43371 Ex-WOMTP5 22nd Mobi Intake Jan 67 - Jan 89 RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:48 am |
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Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:46 am Posts: 146
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They know how to pomp and ceremony don’t they? A couple of things I noticed, its very hard to march not swinging your arms; those lads will have sore hips this morning. The pall bearers also done a splendid job, they were my heroes. Walking down stairs not looking where you are putting your feet (in unison) with 7 other people carrying a coffin takes skill. I thought Charles may have ceded the throne to William; personally I don’t think he has it in him for the long haul, particularly if he mirrors his mother’s dedication.
_________________ Gary Fradd S115224 Ex-LSMTH3 1973 - 1985 Cerberus, Melbourne, Creswell x 2, Nirimba, Perth x 2, Kuttabul FIMA
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:33 pm |
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I reckon you may be right, Gary, regarding Prince William being offered an early shot as King ![king :king:](./images/smilies/icon_king.gif) and the chance of a long reign, ![yess :yess:](./images/smilies/yes.gif) even thought HM QE2 might have suggested it to HM CR3 before she passed... ![Speak to the hand =;](./images/smilies/eusa_hand.gif) Despite having long harboured a soft spot for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I must confess that I'm suffering from 'Monarch Overload' ![terrified :terrified:](./images/smilies/terrified-026.gif) bordering on the claustrophobic, as a result of the almost non-stop TV coverage ![tv :tv:](./images/smilies/tv-062.gif) of every aspect of HM QE2's long life... ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif) After a few days of boring, repetitive, trivial drivel, ![Not talking [-(](./images/smilies/eusa_snooty.gif) I decided instead that I'd just watch the actual funeral itself ![sleep1 :sleep1:](./images/smilies/sleep-029.gif) to feel part of it all... Sadly, even that got to me after a while, ![d'oh! #-o](./images/smilies/eusa_doh.gif) O.K., so nobody does pomp and ceremony better than the Poms, ![kick :kick:](./images/smilies/music-004.gif) and the crowds were impressive, but I found myself repeatedly hitting 'freeze frame' every time a long-distance overhead drone shot captured the gun carriage, in an effort to count ![captain :captain:](./images/smilies/captain-024.gif) that there were in fact the reported 140 RN sailors towing/ slowing the coffin... I counted 40 'braking', but was never satisfied that there were, in fact, 100 pulling (I got to about 96, did they include the accompanying Officers/ NCOs ...?) ![dontknow :dontknow:](./images/smilies/dontknow.gif) Then the Chippy in me kicked in, ![yess :yess:](./images/smilies/yes.gif) wondering ![Think :-k](./images/smilies/eusa_think.gif) when the ceremonial Royal Orb and Sceptre were going to fall/ roll off the coffin... ![omg1 :omg1:](./images/smilies/omg1.gif) Surely they wouldn't have perforated a Royal Standard and then punched holes in Her Maj's coffin to fit mountings..? ![Not talking [-(](./images/smilies/eusa_snooty.gif) And when exactly was the Royal Jeweller going to remove them prior to the internment...? And how were they planning on 'interring' the coffin in plain sight anyway...? All was revealed in due course... ![Speak to the hand =;](./images/smilies/eusa_hand.gif) They HAD drilled through the Royal Standard ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif) and into the coffin ![d'oh! #-o](./images/smilies/eusa_doh.gif) with mountings for the Orb and Sceptre (scrap one slightly damaged Royal Standard, that'll end up on Ebay...) ![Think :-k](./images/smilies/eusa_think.gif) Well, I'd like to think it's all behind us and they'll give HM CR3 a fair go, ![Speak to the hand =;](./images/smilies/eusa_hand.gif) but I doubt it very much and I suspect that the 'overkill' of recent days will have done more to prompt Australians to re-consider a Republic, ![boomerang :boomerang:](./images/smilies/boomerang.gif) than Malcolm Turnbull and that red-bandana-clad-bikie wanker ![bike2 :bike2:](./images/smilies/bike-038.gif) could ever have done...! ![snap :snap:](./images/smilies/snapoutofit.gif)
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