HMS COLLINGWOOD

[Nutty]

Nozzy

Soyyr I left out the home of all Geenies, which now appears to have metamorphised into the centre of the Training World being all things to all Pusser Person's.

Nutty

 

[NozzyNozzer]

Nozzy

Soyyr I left out the home of all Geenies, which now appears to have metamorphised into the centre of the Training World being all things to all Pusser Person's.

Nutty

I think you need to amend the Subject to read: HMS COLLINGWOOD (COLINGRAD) for those of us who didn't actually know what its real name was (or in my case, couldn't spell it properly) :wink:

 

[janner]

When I joined I spent a week at Collingwood being issued and sorting kit, apparantly Mercury didn't have the facilities to do it.

 

[sootblower]

HMS Collingwood - I will stand corrected but isn't it the Maritime Warfare School now? At least the guys & girls have MWS on the cap tallies now.
Anyone remember White City and "Shovel face" in the 1980's?

 

[Lingyai]

HMS Collingwood - I will stand corrected but isn't it the Maritime Warfare School now? At least the guys & girls have MWS on the cap tallies now.
Anyone remember White City and "Shovel face" in the 1980's?

Who could forget shovel face, he could strike fear in the heart of the devil himself. Also remember the WW2 style accom at pelican road and the southern club, also who could forget the bop slags from fareham (sorry if any readers are married to em, yours is different).

 

[Lingyai]

Just remembered a collingwood dit.
We were doing security duties on standby at collingwood when we got a call to get to the theatre asap with damage control lamps? As usual for the grad the power station had crapped out and put the theatre in darkness in the middle of a show.
The variety club or some such group had some downs syndrome types watching the show who proceeded to throw a total wobbly and scream the house down. We ended up with one guy playing the piano whilst we hung in the rafters with the floodlamps to calm the fcukers down.
I think we were as scared as they were when we rushed into that place with floodlamps to light the faces of screaming mongols who screamed even more at the sight of us. Great night.

 

[omCtillIdie]

I just passed out of collingwood last friday on my omc course, we have hms collingwood on our cap tallys not mws. collingwood definately got its ups and downs, the downs definately being the pti's. had some interesting experiences at collingwood, lowe building the new messes just built in phase2 training, is like a broffel at night, girls 'n' lads running around naked and you wouldnt be suprised if you found someone streakin in your mess with there s10 resperators on and throwin your quilt in the showers at night, but wot goes around comes around haha.








better? 8)

 

[Lingyai]

i just passed out of collingwood last friday on my omc course, we have hms collingwood on our cap tallys not mws. collingwood defo got its ups and downs, the downs defo being the pti's. had some interesting experiences at collingwood, lowe building the new messes just built in phase2 training, is like a broffel at nite, girls n lads runnin round naked and u wouldnt be suprised if u found some1 streakin in ure mess with there s10 resperators on and throwin ure quilt in the showers at nite, but wot goes around comes around haha.

Shit mate, I hope you don't type like that when you are sending signals... 8O

 

[brigham600]

As a FOST CRS I can tell you that OM(C)'s very rarely type out signals these days. It is all done for them by the drafter using automated message handling systems such as AMHA, AMHS and NAMC.

I do believe the passmark for typing exercises has been drastically reduced, as just about every other passmark. How on earth can our little darlings get through training otherwise. ;-)

Do not think it will be long before all OM(C)'s are sending signals using text language. Can just see it now...

rqst birf @ 7 wrf 4 fuel n stuff. sure lines 2b avlble. r u able 2 provide spuds n ovver fings, innit. Wot is currantsy 4 chngin are money mate, innit. Yeah.

(Spelling mistakes on purpose) :lol:

 

[brigham600]

As a FOST CRS I can tell you that OM(C)'s very rarely type out signals these days. It is all done for them by the drafter using automated message handling systems such as AMHA, AMHS and NAMC.

I do believe the passmark for typing exercises has been drastically reduced, as just about every other passmark. How on earth can our little darlings get through training otherwise. ;-)

Do not think it will be long before all OM(C)'s are sending signals using text language. Can just see it now...

rqst birf @ 7 wrf 4 fuel n stuff. sure lines 2b avlble. r u able 2 provide spuds n ovver fings, innit. Wot is currantsy 4 chngin are money mate, innit. Yeah.

(Spelling mistakes on purpose) :lol:

For our new boy (OMCTILLIDIE) you are now on backwards VDU exercises and to remain onboard this evening until you pass. 8O :lol:

 

[dondon]

I was Ships Company in Collingwood in 71 , in Finnesteare block , left in march 72 and did'nt go back untill 93 when I drove the Commadore from Devonport Naval Base , I know it was 21 years , but I could'nt recognise anything about the place , only stayed the one night but was quite impressed with the Senior Rates mess :twisted: :roll: :twisted:
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[NozzyNozzer]

I should have thought being able to read & send Morse, type quickly and accurately, read, write and spell and read and send flag semaphore were pretty basic - in fact VERY BASIC! 8O Keyboard skills are however pretty essential even for inputting or data processing on a computer these days, so even there I should have though it a necessary skill. After all if recruits have to score 85% surely they must be as intelligent as us 15 year olds were when matelots were matelots and jennies were wrens. :roll: