HMS BRISTOL Association

[stan_the_man]

Reunion 19th November
The Unofficial HMS Bristol web Site

 

[sgtpepperband]

Seen.

Can't make it though...

 

[stan_the_man]

Seen.

Can't make it though...

You undercover again???
77-79 81-83 A fcuking scream except for 82 !! be a laugh to see all the old fat fcukers including me!!!

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

I've resurrected on old thread to give some information.

I don't know how many of you know, but tomorrow, HMS Bristol is being decommissioned after 50 odd years. She is/was a unique ship - literally and metaphorically.

She was the best ship I had.

 

[huwshpis]

I remember her regularly putting in to Fishguard when doing missile trials at Aberporth. I was too young to sign on in those days, but really keen on having a pusser’s grey war canoe for a home.

 

[buffersduffer]

Probably my crap IT skills but couldn’t find anything online about her decommissioning today, thought DSC news would of had something. I did find this though, where HMS Bristol is called a boat and makes reference to when the senior service was ‘invented’.

Could HMS Bristol get a new lease of life in her namesake city?

A councillor has a bold vision for the Navy ship

www.bristol247.com

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

The decommissioning seems to have happened REALLY quickly - it was first mentioned only about a week ago. Obviously, the bosses knew some time ago, but it wasn't promulgated to us oiks.
Pictures now showing her Paying Off pennant on FB.

 

[redmonkey]

She is only going one of two ways. Neither involves the bristol channel.
Numerous times crowd funding has been tried for ex RN ships and they dont seem to work.

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

I can't believe that it is about 45 years ago I joined her! It was just after the fire. She was a great ship to serve on and was one of a kind - the only ship in the modern RN to have 3 funnels!

 

[buffersduffer]

She is only going one of two ways. Neither involves the bristol channel.
Numerous times crowd funding has been tried for ex RN ships and they dont seem to work.

Eye watering costs. The most credible plan I remember was for Invincible post decommissioning to be moored at Greenwich as a private heliport, ideal for Canary Wharf etc but that never came off