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"Thommo's Last Ship"
by
Jack Newman
By kind permission of the author the book
may be downloaded FREE in Adobe PDF format below.
"Thommo�s Last
Ship is a work of
fiction. Having said that, I must admit that I have leaned heavily on my
own experiences aboard HMS Bulwark in the mid-sixties for the
technical parts. A lot of the events described in the story did occur on
one or another of Her Majesty�s aircraft carriers, perhaps not in the
order that I have written - certainly not all occurred on the Rusty B
-
but sailors love to gossip. I have a very retentive memory for things
that I really want to recall. I also kept a journal of our trip to the
Far East. I have been asked why the ship has no name. The story is about
ordinary sailors going about their day-to-day duties. The ship is not
that important. It could have been any ship that they happened to be
serving on at the time, somewhere in the mid nineteen-sixties.
The ladies depicted in the story are a figment of my imagination, or most
of them were!
Why did I write this story after all these years? I don�t really know the
correct answer to that question. It was a story that just went round and
round in my head for years and wouldn�t go away. I wanted to write about
people who normally do not appear to get much recognition in stories
written about the service. In the books that I have read it is nearly
always an officer who takes the leading role, either the captain of a
ship, or the pilot of an aircraft. The men who really run the navy, the
senior ratings, rarely get a mention. I wanted to give them a fair go.
Perhaps the answer to my question is that I just wanted to see if I could
do it.
Last of all I would like to thank my good friends Thelma and Mike Power.
Without their help and encouragement this story would probably have ended
up in the bottom drawer of my desk, dusty and forgotten.
To all you ex-Fleet Air Arm pensioners reading this, I hope you enjoy the
story."
Jack Newman. ( ex�AA1 )
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