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` Incident `
Howardws:
A Midshipman from HMS Pincher (An Algerine class minesweeper M294) was in a phone box at the end of the dock talking to his mother when the submarine hit it and knocked it over. When the young man tried to explain all the noise by telling her that a submarine had hit the phone box she came to the conclusion that he was drunk and hung up.
castle261:
Dave -- just put `talent disaster in 1954 ` with your cursor -- & read all about it.
I had just started in the Dockyard in 1953.
stuartwaters:
Dave, you're referring to the Talent Disaster in 1954.
Dave Smith:
My friend, Roy Barnard, was a Dockyard Apprentice. He'd done his time & probably about 1951/52, he was working on a sub. in dry dock when the caisson gave way & the dock was flooded, & the sub."unsettled". He was thrown over & damaged his wrist. At the sick bay, he was told it was only a sprain. It didn't get any better, so they started a course of manipulation. Still no better, so they decided to x-ray it- a fracture! So he couldn't carry on as a fitter & they moved him to Rate Fixer. I believe there were worse casualties- someone must know?
mmitch:
I can remember a submarine doing that in the 50s then a low level flyby by a Fairey Gannet with one prop stopped!
mmitch.
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