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Top video as usual Supers! Went round the bouy a couple of times for that one! BZ 🇬🇧⚓️

The food was the only thing I missed after leaving the RN

Best food I ever had in my time in the Royal Navy on board HMS Ark Royal!

So, as a non-Brit, what was that brown stuff being served at 0:57?

This was an era when men were men not the limp dick wet wipes we have now.... RIP Tom.

No better force for good bobs around the green/grey and clinkly stuff, known as 0G1N.

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When you place your sons in the hands of men like that, he watched over them & turned them into saliors.🙏🧡

I was on this ship during this deployment. It was great to see it captured on film. Thank you.

Great stuff! I was on RAF Chinooks, 2002-04 but never saw anything like this!😃

Is petty officer dave Langdon shown in this series? I know he served on the Ark Royal for part of his career.

Thank you for sharing this.

Watched a documentary on the Ark probably late 70s early 80s and in the final episode it showed it getting scrapped in a yard up in Scotland such shame that she ended up for scrap and I think an officer got very upset at her getting cut up

Nice shots here. To see a Harrier on HMS Ark Royal is quite cool.

1:34 into video 😳 smoking a fag Infront of a senior officer on ship!!

That ship outlasted not only its contemporaries of the 60's and 70's UK carrier fleet, but also its replacements, the Invincibles.

You dont hear about the present aircaft carriers going anywhere.They need to go to sea.

Thanks for posting. Amazing video, it makes you realize just how professional all those guys out there were.

Completely charming. I loved this. Thank you for uploading, it has made me smile and brought back the joy of our holiday on a cruiser on the Thames last week.

I grew up here 1974-2024 my home city and Ocean world was my first job. Thank you for posting!

On R09 late 1960 to early 62. 4K1 mess. Great times. Capt Peter Hill-Norton & Cmdr “Sam” Brooks in charge. We even run aground in guz so got a bit more leave before going to far east.

Just sitting here alone listening to this amazing piece of music i find i have tears gently running down my cheeks.

Very brave men , watch " The history of central banks and the enslavement of humanity " then watch " Europa the last battle" we have been lied to for a long time.

Backbone of the Navy

“Drink a man’s drink and act like a man” - a lesson I learned as a cadet in the MN aged 17!

Underbart

Very firm but by no means unfair.

Does anyone know what number9s are?

I had the chance to watch defaulters on board a RN ship once. Exactly the same as this more or less. Interesting to see the process again.

good find "Super" still a class act in 2024 lotsa love and best wishes from the firesuitman77-79

I hope he had a happy retirement. Looks like he did.

Drunk on a tenner.....The good old days !

I remember the Ark in Gibraltar in 78 visited it what a privilege as an airman at GiB.

What a lovely man, thanks for uploading. 🙂

"Arseholes to you lot"the two ringer could hardly keep a straight face.

Real discipline, takes me back 👍

Tom Wilkinson Legend, a lager than life character who we are still watching almost 50 years later, to see him get so emotional when he see the Ark Royal at the breakers yard "Its People that make ships" and War-Canoe a line and half..

That man is a good example of a Senior NCO.. He is tough and fair!

"war canoe"?

The Era when we had a better Navy

What a ledgend ..top bloke.

Oh that brought back memories. Sods operas during patrol of Rhodesia.

What a superb video so memories when we had a navy beforevwilson and healy destroyed it

The last scenes with the remains of ARK are so poignant. Unless youve served youll never understand how much the men and women of the armed forces give to the nation. Its not just a job. It's literally blood, tears, sweat. It's anger, frustration, love and joy. It is a wholly unique feeling to be part of it and to feel at one with your Ship, aircraft or team. There is no feeling like it in the world.

Is it frame to frame?

such a great watch

Discipline and courtesy will bring you far in life. That is what the boss was teaching. The men may not have realised it, but given an education when speaking to the man. Song at the end is an Irish drinking song

I seem to remember my father being his messman on the Albion 1964. My brother and I went exploring where we shouldn't have during the commision service after lunch in a ward room. Brown for Archie!

Back before UK HM forces was a woke shit show

That would be 4th June 1966, we transitted the Suez Canal in company with the Royal Yacht Britannia