G Spot Mast manning

[whitemouse]

For all you ex TROGs :

www.zippyvideos.com/7018467085972596/mast_hms_ganges/


Hopefully, I've added the link properly

:smile:


ps . It is a wmv file with sound

 

[janner]

Nice ad for RumRation there as well

 

[dunkers]

Like it! :lol:

 

[writerken]

For all you ex TROGs :

www.zippyvideos.com/7018467085972596/mast_hms_ganges/


Hopefully, I've added the link properly

:smile:


ps . It is a wmv file with sound

Thanks for this link, Whitemouse. I've been searching for such a link for ages. Great stuff!

 

[Lingyai]

I love the way they talk, a bygone age.
Wish all trainees did this, one of the things that really used to annoy me was when you need to go up the mast or out on the yardarm as a greenie and a surprisingly high number of lads these days say "Oh I don't do heights"???
WTF? Any matelot that can't get up a couple of ladders on a pussers warship has no business being in the RN. IMHO.

 

[whitemouse]

You're welcome

:smile:

 

[Always_a_Civvy]

Then there are these...

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/80255?view=synopsis

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/78230

There is also old newsreel archive material that can be downloaded free. I have the link at home somewhere. I'll add it later.

Finally for a plan of the place at various times of it life...
http://www.hmsgangesassoc.org/map72.html

Steve.

 

[Stav]

Spot on Whitemouse, but we did it better at Vincent even if our mast wasn't as high. :wink:

 

[TattooDog]

Bloody unbelievable - absolutely fantastic! :razz:

I'd love to see the faces of any Health & Safety jobsworths watching that!

 

[andym]

The Rough Seas vid is awesome on there as well!

 

[danny]

all i can say is im glad they dont do that at raleigh

 

[andym]

all i can say is im glad they dont do that at raleigh

Youre not wrong shippers,when i saw it on Blue Peter back in the early 70's just before Grungies was closed i nearly changed my mind about joining up! :grin: :grin: :grin:

And all he got was a silver Crown!Should have been at least £500!

 

[Always_a_Civvy]

all i can say is im glad they dont do that at raleigh

Youre not wrong shippers,when i saw it on Blue Peter back in the early 70's just before Grungies was closed i nearly changed my mind about joining up! :grin: :grin: :grin:

And all he got was a silver Crown!Should have been at least £500!

Should have got the Junior's equivalent of the GC! I used to be terrified being forced to perch on the top of the wallbars at school - no way would you have got me clambering round the Devil's Elbow 80ft off the deck, let alone saluting the seagulls 143ft aloft!

 

[Always_a_Civvy]

Spot on Whitemouse, but we did it better at Vincent even if our mast wasn't as high. :wink:

You did Mast Manning at the V Sign?

My commiseration on your vertically challenged "mast". It's amazing what modern surgery/carpentry can do these days... :grin:

 

[Always_a_Civvy]

Here are some more links... as promised Earlier. There are a whole series of G Spot newsreels available from British Pathe here
http://www.britishpathe.com/product...f4e6&Search.x=0&Search.y=0&searchword=Shotley

Royal Tournament 1954 ... includes Ganges boys dancing the Hornpipe
http://imagen.britishpathe.com/scripts/ImgRetrieve.dll?GetPic&recno=94251&picno=00000190&sif=1

Mast Manning ceremony on 15 July 1963
http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=55087&searchword=Shotley&searchword=Shotley

Mast Manning ceremony on 27 June 1965
http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=52633&searchword=Shotley&searchword=Shotley