Thanks Seejay, you can see how I am rigidly attuned to the company.......

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

A lot of people would like to rigidly roger the company!

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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!

Four "new" ships commissioned today. Well, actually, four of the former Australian Defence Vessels (ADV) of the Cape class became "HMAS". Unlike the Armidale class they are substituting for, no no big bang stick up the front......................

HMAS Cape Pillar
HMAS Cape Naturaliste
HMAS Cape Woolamai
HMAS Cape Capricorn

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

I note that the navy has been embarrassed again. Some twirp has flown his drone from near Garden Island (Sydney) onto the flight deck of one of the floating boxes (LHD), videoed it all and then uploaded it to the media.

Wow.........

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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!

I understand a Court Martial has been scheduled following the the result of the Committee of Inquiry....

Video of Press Release:

https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... Ee7zE,st:0

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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).