I received the following e-mail from 1st MOBI Intake's Tom Shaw this afternoon...

Hi Rick....

Today I attended my volunteer work at the Sydney Heritage Fleet I learnt of the passing last week of one of Nirimba's Commanding Officers, Captain Tom Fisher. Tom's funeral notice was in the Sydney Morning Herald on the 29th Necember and funeral was held today at St Phillips church in York Street this morning.

Tom

Captain Tom Fisher AM (Rtd.) was Commanding Officer of HMAS Nirimba 1972 - 1974



The Funeral Notice from The Sydney Morning Herald reads:

Thomas Fisher (1929 - 2013)
AM, RAN (Ret'd)
8.03.1929 - 26.11.2013

Beloved of wife Penelope, daughter Felicity and grandchildren Edward and Alice; died peacefully at Killara.

Funeral service at 10 am on 3rd December at St Philip's Anglican Church, 3 York St., Sydney 2000.

No flowers, but donations if wished to the Salvation Army.
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Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Nov. 29, 2013.
- See more at: http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/s ... t4VAi.dpuf

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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

Yes, Remember him well. He was CO for most of my time at Nirimba.

I didn't front him, but he seemed to be a reasonable skipper, however I am not sure as a lowly MOBI, we really had the objectivity to assess that!

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Steve Johns
R110510
Ex POETS
31st MOBI Intake
July 71 to July 81
Nirimba, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, Parramatta, WRE, Yarra, Stalwart, Derwent.
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I fronted him for my one and only charge in the RAN in 7th term for improper supervision of 1st term apprentices on an optometrist visit to Penrith. I could not see from the eye dilation drops let alone stop them from going to a pub and getting pissed. That defence failed and he lashed me up with a $50 fine and 14/30 (14 days nines and 30 days stoppage of leave - ouch!). That charge cost me a passing out parade award. Lesson learnt "big time".

Yes, I remember him well, a big man but upon reflection, a fair man. I should have went to the front of the eye test queue as a 7th termer could and should and then gone to the pub with them and made sure they did not get pissed.

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Mick Hamilton
R105050
ex-LEUT SDENWE
26th MOBI intake
Jan 1969 to Feb 1989
Melbourne, Stalwart, Torrens, Vendetta, Vampire, Cook.
Estabs: Nirimba, Cerberus, Harman x 2, Coonawarra x 2.

So Mick,

What Capt Fisher decided, is that as a 7th termer, you went straight to the pub first. Got pissed and then went to the optometrist, could see the chart or the drunken Sprogs either!!

Capt Tom Fisher was the Training Commander at one stage, while I was at Nirimba.

Still sad hear the news

Vale Tom

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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).

Probably right.

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Mick Hamilton
R105050
ex-LEUT SDENWE
26th MOBI intake
Jan 1969 to Feb 1989
Melbourne, Stalwart, Torrens, Vendetta, Vampire, Cook.
Estabs: Nirimba, Cerberus, Harman x 2, Coonawarra x 2.

He was a Commodore as GMGID when I was a PJP at the Island.

Thought he should have got the extra stripe to Real Admiral instead of Nigel Beryln.

Nice guy, probably too nice..... More practical than political.

Vale Tom, smooth seas and fair winds.

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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.