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Bruce D
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 Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 8:41 pm |
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City or Town: Melbourne
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I meet Brian Swan, during the 1988 bi-centennial Tall Ship where I was working as a volunteer looking after 160 vessels (ended up being 2I/C of the berthing area. Got a personnel note and Bicentennial Tall ship medal for the work I did.
Upset a lot of Officers who compained back to my ship that I was saying I was a Officer (I never did).
Bruce D
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Bruce Downes
Ex-AMTL / LSETP3
2nd Muppet Intake
Jan 73 to Jan 94
Nirimba, Duchess, Kuttabul, Stalwart, Leeuwin, Stirling, Vampire, Stirling, Waratah, Adelaide, Platypus, Adelaide, Sydney, Platypus, Adelaide, Cairns, Melbourne
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 9:01 pm |
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City or Town: Lake Munmorah
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Chippy Ned wrote: Swannie was a MOBI from the first intake in 1956 so the maximum age he could be is 85.
Shep and I had a yarn to John Buttle yesterday who was in the forth intake.  I believe you'll find that Swannie actually started his apprenticeship as a civilian Chippy at Garden Island, then upon learning of the planned establishment of RANATE, joined the RAN as an apprentice in the 1st MOBI Intake, (as opposed to an early DENS,) only officially becoming an NSA in his 2nd term like the rest of us Chippies...  _________________  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: Mon Apr 27, 2026 1:09 am |
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Hippy Chippy wrote: I believe you'll find that Swannie actually started his apprenticeship as a civilian Chippy at Garden Island, then upon learning of the planned establishment of RANATE, joined the RAN as an apprentice in the 1st MOBI Intake, (as opposed to an early DENS,) only officially becoming an NSA in his 2nd term like the rest of us Chippies... Correct - Brian Swan was a Dockyard Shipwright apprentice. I worked with a Dockyard Chippie by the name of Dallas Smith who purchased Brian Swans toolbox off him when he was about to leave the Dockyard and join Nirimba. I happened to see Dallas Smith not long after Brian Swan became CO of Nirimba and he asked that I pass on a message to Brian Swan - Dallas felt he had paid too much for the toolbox and I had the opportunity to relay Dallas's message.
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BC
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 3:33 pm |
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I am still not finding any evidence that Brian Lawrence Swan has crossed the bar. And as Ned said, Brian was born in 1941, so he could not have died at 99yrs of age.
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22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2026 7:02 pm |
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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
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BC
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2026 7:16 pm |
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Thanks Rick, I knew he wouldn't be going quietly!
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22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2026 7:46 pm |
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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
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