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Pony
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 Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:19 am |
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Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:23 am
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City or Town: Warragul
State: Victoria
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Look forward to the "warries"  
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Mike (Pony) Moore
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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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Stroppy Chippie
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:05 pm |
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City or Town: Schofields
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Hippy Chippy wrote:  Well, Chasps,  I'm just about to head off on my 90 minute drive  down to Sydney to spend a day at sea with the crew of HMAS BRISBANE (III).   I'm told that the 20 of us   HMAS Brisbane (II) Association Guests are part of a contingent of 200 Guests  all up joining the 180 Crew of HMAS BRISBANE (III). Hippy Chippy wrote:  HMAS Brisbane (III) has 23 Ossifers (of which only 2 are females, one SBLT and one MIDN,) out of a crew of 180, (of which, all up, a total of 40 are female,) according to the commemorative  brochure...  Seems a bit top heavy to me,  I trust that somebody did their buoyancy calculations  before they decided to add an extra 200 bodies (i.e., more
Guests than Crew,) as top-weight on the uppers...!  Don't worry. Standard policy is to load a couple of extra life raft containers onboard ships for family days.............................
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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond
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Seejay
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:55 am |
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City or Town: Cairns
State: QLD
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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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Pony
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:34 am |
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City or Town: Warragul
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Nothing from the Hippy Chippy so far, wonder if he enjoyed it so much he decided to re-enlist and stay on.
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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.
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 11:18 am |
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Joined: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:51 pm
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City or Town: Waikiki
State: WA
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Fell asleep in his clic-clac chair and couldn't be woken up!! 
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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
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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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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:02 pm |
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City or Town: Lake Munmorah
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Gents, it's a bit of 'all of the above',  a fabulous day,  exceptional hospitality extended by all 160 (?) of the crew,  but from the waist down,  every muscle in my thighs, calves and feet are aching from climbing up/ sliding down ladders all day, (and breaking in a near-new pair of runners,) to the extent that if I'd have gotten out of bed this morning, I'd have been lucky to move from one step off the vertical...  Lesson learned, get fit before taking on a challenge like spending the day on the sleekest, sea-going war-machine in the Fleet... I've got a heap of photos to download from my phone/ upload to the site, along with lots of interesting/ fun snippets from a terrific day, but I'll take by time to get it right, (I expect over the next
24 hours,) as a number of HMAS BRISBANE (III) Crew now have access to RAN Skilled Hands and no doubt keen to read how their hospitality was received...  So thanks for your patience, bear with be, much more to come...  Suffice to say, our Navy is in good shape  and in  good hands...  The HMAS Brisbane (II) Association Group, (minus phot, George Hicks,) posing with Skipper, CMDR Josh Wilson and the HMAS Brisbane (I) picture presented to him... _________________  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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connief
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:47 pm |
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City or Town: Canberra
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Great stuff Rick, looking forward to your photos and warries.
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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
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:56 pm |
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City or Town: Lake Munmorah
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Appreciate your patience, Guys... ...just waiting on a few more responses from HMAS Brisbane (II) Association Members with their details so I can tag them appropriately in subsequent pics...   The reason I'm waiting on further info, is that about 1/3 of those above  were former Apprentices, or were directly connected with RANATE - HMAS Nirimba... _________________ 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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Stroppy Chippie
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:21 pm |
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Geoff Cole was the last commanding officer of HMAS Nirimba (apart from the RN Commander Quinn who was given "command" for the last day).....
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Brian Mackenzie
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 2:47 pm |
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City or Town: Lake Munmorah
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Or as Geoff (a Supply Branch CAPT) himself put it to me (over a brew  in the Senior Sailors' Mess,)  he was "...the last CO of RANATE to oversee an Apprentice Intake, leaving in ’93, relieved by CMDR Paul Quinn who oversaw the final dismantling of HMAS Nirimba..." Lots more to show and tell, and so I'd just like to tender a gentle reminder to all, that along with ALL the participating Members of the HMAS Brisbane (II) DDG41 Association, a large number of HMAS BRISBANE (III) Crew have been given the URL  to our website in anticipation of reading my report, so I would ask for some decorum,  particularly in this Topic, for the foreseeable future... I know I can count on you Guys,  so in anticipation, I thank you all...!  _________________ 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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