Is that a victory sign? Karachi, Pakistan, Nov
1976 |
CPOs ashore, Karachi |
& Jack ashore |
Dhow, Karachi |

SEATO fleet anchored off Karachi |
Sods opera, Jossman Jimmy Riddle in centre, Nov
1976 |
Chief GI Figg |
the Jimmy, & Lt Mclellan |
Chief CEA, ?, ERA Smudge Smith, REA Andy
Eggington |
1H Mess "Harry's Bar", Andy Bain (WAFU),
Chief Tiff Dave Woollard
|
Andy Bain, Jimmy Ridle, Dave Woollard, Dave Price
(Buffer) |
CPO SA Bungy Williams, Slinger Woods
|
Iranian (pre revolution) "Farmaz"
firing 4.5" Mk 8 gun |
Aunt Sally - PO Stwd Jeff Cox, OEA Harry Hole |
Persian Gulf - In the Lion's Mouth |
Decontamination exercise |
Bahrain Nov 1976 |
Captain Dunn leaves the ship - rowed ashore by the wardroom, Bahrain
Nov 1976 |
Bacchante, anchored off Bahrain |
 |
Bacchante |
Back through the Lion's Mouth, Persian Gulf Nov 1976 |
HMS Antrim, in the Lion's Mouth |
RAS - HMS Charybdis, RFA ?, HMS Yarmouth, Nov 1976 |
Stern RAS, HMS Yarmouth to starboard |
Live mortar firing, Nov 1976 |
A/S mortar bombs |
HMS Yarmouth in the Suez Canal, Dec 1976 |
HMS Yarmouth |
on the canal bank, Egypt Dec 1976
|
Egyptian ex-royal yacht, Alexandria, Dec 1976 |
Soviet submarine in floating dock, Alexandria |

Egyptian naval headquarters, Alexandria |
|
The Alabaster Mosque, Cairo
|
inside the Alabaster Mosque |
Domes & minarets, Cairo
|
Camel train by the Great Pyramid, Giza |
 |
A CPO on a camel (me, actually) |
The pyramid of Cheops, and the Sphinx. The Sphinx is nothing like as
big as it seems - the pyramid is a long way away. And I have my back
against the outskirts of Cairo - another shock! |
Alexandria Harbour |
HMS Bacchante in the Med, Dec 1976. I requested this flight as a
photographic jolly before I left the RN in April 77, so I thank the WAFUs
for that. |
 |
HMS Bacchante
|
HMS Bacchante, HMS Charybdis, Med Dec 1976 |
|

HMS Bacchante, Med, Dec 1976 |
leaving Gibraltar Dec 76. Probably Naiad
(nearest) & Charybdis
|
|
HMS Naiad & HMS Charbydis
|
HMS Antrim, N Atlantic
|
425 landing on, Dec 1976
|
|
|
Sheerness, and families come on board. Isaac's
sea-going career comes to an end. 22nd Dec 1976
|
|