Enjoy the weekend gentlemen (and ladies).
See you next year.

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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.

Hope y'all have a high ol' time!!

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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.

Last time I was at Frisco's, January last year, my 20 something year old son and I had gone to the smoke to watch a one dayer. We were staying at the Royal Exhibition near Central.

After I showed my son the old hunting ground by walking from Kings Cross station down to Wooloomooloo we stopped in for a beer at Frisco's. We had a few and were up on the balcony about to leave and around 30 young women walked around the corner, all dressed in white, dresses, shorts, shirts etc and came into Frisco's and straight upstairs to the balcony. Turns out it was the beginning of a hens party and Jake and I were stuck right in the middle of it.

Well, about 10 schooners later we made it out, not long after the party moved on actually.

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Darryl Mann
R146320
Ex-LSRP
GE58 HMAS Cerberus
July 1989- July 1995
HMAS Watson, HMAS Brisbane, HMAS Kuttabul(FIMA-SH), HMAS Watson

The Royal Exhibition was or may still be run by an ex LSSIG by the name of Nigel "Swampy" Marsh. He also runs the Zetland Hotel.

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Bruce Francis
R112774
JRTE 40TH Intake
July 72-June73
Ex WM,QMG,Bosun,Paid off Sept 93
Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies

Have a great weekend guys.

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Bruce Francis
R112774
JRTE 40TH Intake
July 72-June73
Ex WM,QMG,Bosun,Paid off Sept 93
Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies

We did......

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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!

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

No shocking news on the Sydney scene over night, so we will have to await the Sitrep from Tricky a little later.

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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).

I'll keep adding to the 'report' as more pics come in over coming days, but the three below came from Bob 'Tafmo' King's mobile phone, which he sent me this
morning, however we suspect that they got reduced in quality to facilitate transmission via mobile, 'cos they really don't look like 24/48 megapixel pics his Huawei mobile
phone is capable of, and he'll resent them via e-mail when he returns to Adelaide tomorrow...

Meanwhile, here's our obligatory annual group pic outside the 'Harbour View' Hotel for 2019...



L to R: Dave 'Rabbit' Warren, Mark 'Mobes' Mobley, Rick 'Tricky' Pengilly, Polly Shepherd, Ray Finlay, Doug 'Gangas' Green, Sue Midgley, Wal 'Midge' Midgley, Steve
'Shep' Shepherd, Bob 'Tafmo' King, Brenda Green, Brian 'Stroppy' McKenzie, Chris 'SeeJay' O'Keefe, Jan O'Keefe, Verna 'Toots' McKenzie, Col 'Pussasan' Kelson,
Sandy Robertson, Dave Maxwell, Gordon 'Gordo' Robertson, and last but by no means least, Brian 'Charlie' Staples...



Tafmo and Charlie at Pub #3 of 14, 'The Merchantile'...


Yours truly at 'The Merchantile'... More to come...

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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

As always, it's a pleasure to 'host' these Annual RAN Skilled Hands Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokeys, but I want to especially welcome this year, three 'newbies' who've never been before,
Wal and Sue Midgley, from Port Stephens, (?) and Ray Finlay, from Brisbane...

It humbles me to acknowledge that something that Ned and SeeJay and I kicked off 17 years ago, not only still attracts around a score, or more of ex-Nirimba types each year, including
wives various, but also appreciating that the likes of SeeJay and Jan, (from Cairns,) Tafmo (and usually with Rhonda, from Adelaide,) Doug and Brenda Green (from Brisbane,) and in previous years,
the likes of Viv Mcleod, from Perth, Mike 'Pony' Moore, from Melbourne, etc., willingly travel so far to be part of this annual event...

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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