I recieved the following sad message from 1st MOBI Intake's Tom Shaw (Mobi17) advising of the passing of 1st MOBI Intake's CPOMTP4SM Kevan Marengo...
(I've subsequently recieved the same notice from a number of other MOBIs, for which I thank them...)

Hi Rick.......Passed this on to you about one of our earlier mobis.
I do not know if he was a member of you site but it may be worth a mention...
Another one gone to soon.
Regards
Tom Shaw .....mobi17




Eternal Patrol - CPOMTP4SM Kevan Marengo

It is with much sadness that I report the death of Kevan, aged 73, who died at 0600 this morning in Townsville.

Family members from Victoria have been with him for the past two weeks and SAANQ Secretary, Garth Schmidt has been a regular visitor.

Kev had cancer for a while, but it was only two weeks ago they diagnosed that it had progressed to his brain. He maintained his sense of humour to the end.

Ken Chilvers said in an email yesterday "It is the first time I have not been able to talk to him. He was looking forward to going home and DVA was arranging to modify his bathroom etc etc but things went "ape shit" [his terminology] and he remains at the Hospice."

"We both joined Nirimba on 5th January 1958 and were in Bass Division together. I am not sure what Ships he went to when we left Nirimba but we caught up in Singapore when he was on Oberon. Kev and I served on Onslow and Ovens together and I can vouch he was quite a character."

All that know him will remember him as one of the best and I for one have many fond memories of the time that we served together on Ovens. Work hard, play harder seemed to be our motto.

He joined Pussers in 1958 and and discharged in 1978.

He joined submarines in 1963 and served on HMS Oberon, HMS Artemis, HMS Tabard, HMS Trump, HMAS Oxley, HMAS Onslow and HMAS Ovens, but unfortunately no record of his time in skimmers is available.

In his SAA profile he wrote "Served in boats '63 to '78. Must have had a good time or I wouldn't have stayed so long."

He has been a member of the SAA since 1992.

Rum sales in Heaven are about to rise, have a tot for me mate.

It is believed that the funeral will be in Bowen where he has lived for many years, confirmation will be advised when known.

The submarine community offers it thoughts and condolences to his family.

Kev has been added to the the list of Australian Submariners on Eternal Patrol



THE SUBMARINER’S PRAYER

O Father, Hear our prayer to thee
For your humble servants
Beneath the sea

In the depths of oceans, as oft they stray
So far from night, so far from day
We would ask your guiding light to glow
To make their journey safe below

Please oft times grant them patient mind
Then ‘ere the darkness won’t them blind
They seek thy protection from the deep
Please grant them peace when ‘ere they sleep

Of their homes and loved ones far away
We ask you care for them each day
Until they surface once again
To drink the air and feel the rain

We ask your guiding hand to show
A safe progression sure and slow.
Dear Lord, please hear our prayer to thee,
For your humble servants
Beneath the sea.

Amen

_________________

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

Sad news. Kev ran the engineer's workshop at Platypus while I was there. A good bloke gone too soon.

Vale Kev. May your journey have calm seas.

_________________

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!

Another pioneer gone, very sad.

RIP Kevan

_________________
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).

Sad news indeed, I too knew Kev at Plats, a good bloke taken too early.

_________________
Bob Moult
R42629
Ex-CPOMTH
13th MOBI Intake
1962 to 1982
Nirimba, Sydney, Melbourne, Tarangau, Penguin, Albatross Kuttabul, Harman, Hobart, Platypus, Duchess, Brisbane, Moreton

Another of the guys that paved the way for the rest of us at Nirimba, passes over the bar.

Sad, sad news, fair seas Kev rest in peace.

_________________

John Kelly (WEBMASTER)
R42620
Ex-WOMTH
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'83
Nirimba x3 - Rushcutter - Sydney x2 (Carrier) - Melbourne (Carrier) - Penguin - Kuttabul - Creswell x3 - Stalwart x2 - Brisbane.

Very sad indeed, Kev was a great guy! RIP Kev.

_________________
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)

I think I met him at Penguin when Barry Davis and myself were going through the Submarine selection process. Sad news and as said earlier, another pioneer gone. Vale.