andym
War Hero

I found this quote,it shows possibly where the RN is going wrong today.
"A wrongly tied knot hurt the Chief bosun's mate as keenly as though it had been tied with the strings of his heart.He lived for his knots and splices.His proudest posession was a Double Matthew Walker Knot mounted on a varnished board which had attracted the commendation of King George V during an inspection of the old Royal Oak.It was the Chief Bosuns mate's considered opinion that if They - meaning the mysterious and all-powerful Lords who administered the Navy from their fastness in Whitehall- paid more attention to knots and rigging and less to being nice to foreigners the Navy would not be in the state it was."
Dated in the 1950's :lol: :lol: :lol:
"A wrongly tied knot hurt the Chief bosun's mate as keenly as though it had been tied with the strings of his heart.He lived for his knots and splices.His proudest posession was a Double Matthew Walker Knot mounted on a varnished board which had attracted the commendation of King George V during an inspection of the old Royal Oak.It was the Chief Bosuns mate's considered opinion that if They - meaning the mysterious and all-powerful Lords who administered the Navy from their fastness in Whitehall- paid more attention to knots and rigging and less to being nice to foreigners the Navy would not be in the state it was."
Dated in the 1950's :lol: :lol: :lol: