The Sinking of HMS Bacchante, (Caron Mills via Clive Orchard) (NB this is 370KB)

Bacchante in Biscay with STANAVFLORVANT 1975 (Helmut Kuehnel, of FGNS Lubeck)

FGNS Lubeck messdeck 1975, with Bacchante exchange visitor (AB(M) Jock Melrose). To his left is Helmut Kuehnel who supplied the photo

Minor damage to port guardrails by HMNS Holland (Pete Ridler)

HMNS Holland, the ship that bounced down our port side, 2nd July 1975. (We were sailing close to give only one radar signal) (Pete Ridler)

1st commission CPOs mess, prob 1970 (Tansy Lee's family). Names welcomed

1st commission CPOs mess, prob 1970. Photo supplied by the family of the late Tansy Lee, 3rd from left front row. I knew Tansy from 1st commission Sirius. A great guy with a wicked sense of humour, he died in 2001. Other names welcomed.

Lubeck and Bacchante at Stavanger 1975, (Heinrich Vormschlag)

STANAVFLORVANT 1975. No doubt someone with better eyes than me can see which ship is which (NB Van Nes is also a Leander) (Heinrich Vormschlag)

NATO fleet poster 1975( Heinrich Vormschlag, of FGNS Lubeck)

Entering Curacao, 1st commission (Keith Henley)

Kiwi crabs, Wellington 1987 (Steve Coker)

Wellington after PO's mess 1987, following Admiral Tempero's burial at sea (Steve Coker)

Wellington flight, 1987 (Steve Coker)

Up spirits on Wellington; 1987 Fiji (That really rubs it in - rum 16 years after it was stolen from us!) (John Flynn)

Ancon Bar Panama City 1970 (Pete Bolger)

l-r Scouse (bootie), Sharks Hunter (Ck), Sandy Sanderson (Lstwd) 1971 (Pete Bolger)

Icelandic gunboat Baldur, 1976 (Alan Nicholson)

(Alan Nicholson)

(Alan Nicholson)

(Alan Nicholson)

 15 mess 1976(Gordon Melrose)
Names pic (Alan Nicholson)

Nunnery renovation team (Keith Henley)

Nunnery renovation team (Keith Henley)

Seacat maintainers (Keith Henley

3 little maids from school! (Keith Henley)

The first pose (Keith Henley)

Dinghy built by stand-by crew, launching ceremony. (Keith Henley, who later married the lady drinking the champagne!)

Jacksonville exchange 1970, l-r Keith Henley, Ollie Smith, ??, Tansy Lee, US Navy Chief, (Keith Henley)

1970 Calendar, (Keith Henley)

Anchored off Karachi, 1976 (Geoff Walker)

Crossing the line 1974 (John JC Williams)

Towex (Trevor Wintle)

Oppo's ashore in Antwerp.  Mike Dean, Buzzby (Tony ??), ? Wetherstone, Brett ? , Trevor Wintle

RAS (Trevor Wintle)

Shadowing the Kiev in the English Channel 1979ish (Trevor Wintle)

Alongside HMS St Angelo, Malta, 1972 (Don Berry)

..and I can't remember him at all - he may have been an RNR GP (Graham Godfrey)

Captain the "Rev" Dunne, 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

WEO Joyce Grenfell at church fete 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

"Church fete", Cod War 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

2 stokers (?) Cod war 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

Jossman Jimmy Riddle Cod war 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

Thor (Graham Godfrey)

Big Bad Baldur - having failed to swing her port quarter into us (Graham Godfrey)

..and Tyr attempts to duck under our stern (Graham Godfrey)

Riding off Tyr Iceland (Graham Godfrey)

Iceland - and buffer Dave Price (Graham Godfrey)

Iceland 1976 (Graham Godfrey)

Line crossing 1974 (Bernie Dutton)

Line crossing 1974 (Bernie Dutton)

Last night in Wilmington Delaware July 1976 (Geoff Sloan)

Jimmy (Lt Cdr McPetrie) gets his scrambled egg. Buffer Dave Price. off Iceland 1976 (Geoff Sloan)

Rugby Team, Hamburg 1975

Paying off pennant, returning from the Falklands (Terry Saunders)

Londonderry ASW Trophy winners, 1979. 

Warpaint - leaving Pompey for the Falklands, 1982 (Trevor Potter)

Warpaint - leaving Pompey for the Falklands, 1982 (Trevor Potter)

HMS Bacchante crew, Rosyth, 1979 (Mike Dean)

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The man himself! - Mike Dean 

In Den Helder, Holland (Mike Dean)

HMS Bacchante, Plymouth Dec 1978 (Mike Dean)

HMS Bacchante (left) & HMS Achilles, transfer 1978 (Mike Dean)

HMS Achilles aft crew transfer to Bacchante, Gibraltar, 1978 (Mike Dean)

"Zebedee" (Mike Dean)

Bacchante postcard (Mike Dean)

(From "Old Wellies"?)

Propping up the wardroom bar again, 2002, (Andrew Welch)

HMNZS Wellington 2002 - looking for'd along the Burma Road (Andrew Welch)

HMNZS Wellington 2002, - one of the smaller cabins (Andrew Welch)

HMNZS Wellington, 2002, MEO's cabin (and look! the MEO's not turned in!) (Andrew Welch)

HMNZS Wellington decommissioned, Devonport, NZ, 2002
(Andrew Welch)

HMNZS Wellington decommissioned, Devonport NZ, 2003
(Andrew Welch)

WE Senior rates, Cod War 1976 

Bacchante off Norfolk Va March 1974. Photo supplied by Gerry White, Royal Canadian Navy, who served with HMCS Fraser in the NATO fleet in 1975, alongside Bacchante.

HM at South Railway Jetty talking to Mrs Brown, wife of the Can Man. Cowes Week 1973. (Gordon Morris) 

Prince Phillip in For'd PO's Mess, Cowes week 1973. L-R - Lt Cdr Tristram (Jimmy), D of E, Frank Wright, Liam Colley, CEA2 Gordon Morris. (Gordon Morris) 

Squadron WEO arriving during Exercise Northern Merger sept 1974. (Gordon Morris) 

(Gordon Morris) 

Bacchante from RFA Targatness, prior to a RAS. (George Mortimore, ex Royal Fleet Auxiliary)

HMCS Iroquois enters New York during the bicentennial celebration July 1976. (PO2 Peter Magwood, Canadian Navy)

HMCS Iroquois, New York July 1976 (PO2 Peter Magwood)

HMCS Iroquois, with HMS Lowestoft behind, July 1976, New York (PO2 Peter Magwood)