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castle261:
I remember the incident well.


First it was a naval man, a first Lieutenant who fell from the top of the conning tower, in No 7 dock.
I was employed on No 6 dock in them days. I was not the crane driver that removed him.
I believe it may have happened early on a Sunday morning.

Cranes were working 7 days a week, a 24 hours a day ( two drivers - 12 hours each )

Colin walsh:
Castle261,perhaps you can help me,as a crane driver do you recall an incident when a crew member of a boat  under refit fell from the fin and was killed,your crane lifted his body to the dock side,just a long shot .talking to a couple of ex mates at a reunion,no one seams to remember the tragedy but me.

castle261:
I bow to your expertise Colin, maybe it was the casing, I saw.

I have seen, the ROD`S taken out, before.

pete.mason:
I used to visit the towers occaisionaly to service the beer dispense. Sign above the turnstiles always amused me, on the lines of" in case of an emergency designated personnel are to report to stations, all others including visitors are to report to the Garrison church". Always a difficult call as they never gave us a mess name (I think there were 4). Invariably you'd be forced to drink a pint in each of either Stella or Ships Ale before finding out it was the wrong mess.

Colin walsh:
Hi I was employed as a helthe physics monitor in the yard,first of all a reactor was never removed from any nuke at Chatham.all the reactors are still on board the hulks at Rosyth  awaiting disposal.
It sounds to me as if the incident you refer to was removing a fuel rod to the core pond.
This entailed lifting the rod,enriched uranium,into a stainless steel container(known as the Guinness bottle) that was then lifted by the "big"crane to the core pond where the rod was removed ,under water, and placed in storage Untill being transferd to a rail flask for transport to a disposal site.
Please don't take this as a criticism,or me being a smart arse,thank you ,
Be pleased to help with any other inquiries ref refueling nuks from one who has been there.  Got the t shirt,and the radiation dose to prove it

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