I started watching Patrol Boat 2 days ago. I am totally hooked! Geat story line and acting. I love all these characters and how they interact with each other. A lot of fun watching. Greetings from the USA. Much respect to the tough people of Australia. I hope to visit your great country someday.
@@GarryRowe Also watching from the U.S as a retired Navy airman who worked at a training squadron in Texas about the time this series was filmed. Our squadron flew modified A-4 aircraft (2 seats: instructor and trainee) and for the most part they were one rugged plane. It has been a treat watching a series where these planes play a part (albeit a smallish one) as there is no American counterpart to Patrol Boat or Sea Patrol. Also worked a year in a Tracker squadron.
@@howardkerr8174 It was very disappointing when we lost our Fleet Air Arm Howard. Who knows how things would be today had the Falklands War not started and we replaced Melbourne with Invincible.
I cant thank you enough for loading these episodes. I used to watch them as a kid. I joined the Navy because of this show. This has brought back many wonderful childhood and early career memories. Fun fact, I went to uni with James Daverns daughter Anna. I particularly like the treatment of aboriginal and refugee issues. These were handled very sensitively for the time. Things like this help create understanding and compassion. I didn't realize it as a kid but it's powerful in retrospect all these years later. Anyway, thank you again. Its made me a very nostalgic old sailor.
Hi, Folks. I worked on a taxiway upgrade at HMAS Albatross, Nowra, in 1973. I got to see the Grumman Trackers coming and going from there and also the Douglas A4 Skyhawks shown in episode 3 practising for an upcoming air show. Australia no longer has a fleet air arm or an aircraft carrier since they decommissioned the Melbourne way back when. Memories. Thank you, Gary Rowe, for posting these. Just my 0.02. You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
Fleet Air Arm was never decomisioned they just cease fixed wing operations. All Major combatants and auxilary classes since the Guided Missile Frigates have had an embarked helicopter from FAA.
Hi, @@davidlindburg1921. I wasn't there WHEN they filmed the series. I only worked there on a new taxiway in 1972-73 and so I have memories of the vase as it was back then. I also did get to see the Trackers and the A4 Skyhawks doing their things. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
I like this series as well as Sea Patrol. I started my U.S. Navy Career in 1975 and retired in 1997. I served on three ships USS Seattle AOE-3, Inchon LPH-12 and Butte AE-27
This is a bloody Beautiful Episode. Helping non citizen of your country. Humanitarian in Nature. If all the Navies do this our world will be at peace and harmony. 💯👏👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 GOD BLESS.
Two fictional RAN patrol boats were depicted in the series. Attack class patrol boat HMAS Ambush (portrayed by HMA Ships Advance and Bombard) Advance was built by Walkers Ltd in Maryborough Qld & Bomdard was built at the Evans Deakin Shipyard at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane Qld. Both of these companies are now part of Downer EDI Ltd.
@@andrewstackpool4911 The Krait is a national treasure cared for by the National Maritime Museum, I checked their gallery of photographs and it is definitely the Krait. James Davern had a knack of using good props for his productions. He was also a good sailor in his own right.
She did, and after the US pulled out post Paris, Australia faced a huge wave of refugees. So we took them in and they have set up here. This ep shows a fairly typical example of those times. And here, we see the RAN which had fought in the Nam now helping those who fled after persecution by the North. That is what this navy does
@James While never a declared war, it was a real war. The refugees were the result of the final fall of the South when people there were rounded up and either executed or placed in concentration camps in the finest Communist tradition. They weren't fleeing the war. They were fleeing the peace
@@andrewstackpool4911 my point was if there's not a war on the military do exercises like this .now probably the word real confused you and for that I apologise but in terms of being educated about Vietnam I was educated by a human beings not a computer so I'm quite aware of what happened
@James I'm not sure I appreciate your comments or attitude. And I'm curious as to who were the humans who taught you. Also I'm very aware of the meaning of real. You are not. I was in Vietnam with the RAN as well as in operations against potential Chinese or Russian conflict. Also I was very much - in the A-boats - involved with refugee ops including dealing with the bodies of poor bastards who never made it. So no I don't need a gd computer or people to teach me. Reality was my teacher.
Help me out here, I don't know much about Vietnamese refugees in Australia. I'm looking at a map and to get from Vietnam to Australia, they would have to make a conscious effort to go around the third-largest island in the world, plus they would have to find an opening in that chain of elongated Indonesian islands that seperate the Java Sea from the Timor Sea. So it's not like they were drifting helplessly with no options the whole way, right?
@@MicMc539 They were from the south. The VC and NVA murdered thousands of their people post th cave in in Paris. We did not kill thousands of their people, we tried to protect them. It was the north did the killing of civilians all same Pol Pot in Cambodia. And no, it was not a civil war it was Viet Minh vs the Cong Oh and we did not leave them to it, that was the craven US government at Paris bowing to the scumbag commie loving left and their treasonous protestors who attacked returning servicemen. Get your facts together.
@@andrewstackpool4911 Geez Andy, you seem a little angry and very ill-informed. Let's straighten you out. It's Vietnam, and has a History back to 500 B.C. They're one people with one Culture and we got involved in THEIR CIVIL WAR. Are you saying the U.S. Civil War is any different? One people=one Country. North V South. Did we differentiate the Japs killing Queenslanders from Victorians? No, they killed Australians! Same - same! Australians killed thousands of them, all Vietnamese, and incidentally, we likely killed a lot more from the South than the North. (Poor bastards in D445!) No. We shat our pants, ran and left them to it, in league and in concert with our U.S. Ally. Allies in Invading, promising one side we would win, being defeated and running out on them. Don't bitch about ''craven US negotiators'' or ''scumbag commies'' or ''treasonous protestors'' losing the War. They weren't in Phuoc Tuy or Hue, it was our Military! The Vietnamese out-fought, out-bled and out-matched us, our resolve and our Allies. We lost. Fair and square. It was V.C., N.V.A., A.R.V.N., Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, The Philippines and the Yanks fighting it out, and our side got flogged on the Battlefield. So we bailed on the losing side and left them to their Fate. So that's what REALLY happened in a War we should never have been in and never had any chance of winning. I'll say it again. It's the least we could for people we led on in a forlorn cause, and then cut and run out on. DUTY FIRST.
This episode is diffrent to Sea Patrol. in Sea Patrol Swain got one child and he had to do a emergenty C section after the women died, he was able to delive the baby boy. plus in another episode when refergees was on a boat, only one spoke some english.
I started watching Patrol Boat 2 days ago. I am totally hooked! Geat story line and acting. I love all these characters and how they interact with each other. A lot of fun watching. Greetings from the USA. Much respect to the tough people of Australia. I hope to visit your great country someday.
You will be most welcome! Glad you are enjoying them, apologies for not taping more way back then!
@@GarryRowe
Also watching from the U.S as a retired Navy airman who worked at a training squadron in Texas about the time this series was filmed. Our squadron flew modified A-4 aircraft (2 seats: instructor and trainee) and for the most part they were one rugged plane. It has been a treat watching a series where these planes play a part (albeit a smallish one) as there is no American counterpart to Patrol Boat or Sea Patrol.
Also worked a year in a Tracker squadron.
@@howardkerr8174 It was very disappointing when we lost our Fleet Air Arm Howard. Who knows how things would be today had the Falklands War not started and we replaced Melbourne with Invincible.
I cant thank you enough for loading these episodes. I used to watch them as a kid. I joined the Navy because of this show. This has brought back many wonderful childhood and early career memories. Fun fact, I went to uni with James Daverns daughter Anna. I particularly like the treatment of aboriginal and refugee issues. These were handled very sensitively for the time. Things like this help create understanding and compassion. I didn't realize it as a kid but it's powerful in retrospect all these years later. Anyway, thank you again. Its made me a very nostalgic old sailor.
Wonderful to read your comments! Glad these continue to remind of times long ago. As a serving sailors at the time, I loved this series.
Hi, Folks.
I worked on a taxiway upgrade at HMAS Albatross, Nowra, in 1973. I got to see the Grumman Trackers coming and going from there and also the Douglas A4 Skyhawks shown in episode 3 practising for an upcoming air show.
Australia no longer has a fleet air arm or an aircraft carrier since they decommissioned the Melbourne way back when.
Memories. Thank you, Gary Rowe, for posting these.
Just my 0.02.
You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
Fleet Air Arm was never decomisioned they just cease fixed wing operations. All Major combatants and auxilary classes since the Guided Missile Frigates have had an embarked helicopter from FAA.
@@OrDuneStudios I was on Moresby a few years before going grey ships, we were "WA fleet air arm" until FFG's home ported there lol.
How very cool, someone who was actually there when they filmed the series! 😁👍
Hi, @@davidlindburg1921.
I wasn't there WHEN they filmed the series. I only worked there on a new taxiway in 1972-73 and so I have memories of the vase as it was back then. I also did get to see the Trackers and the A4 Skyhawks doing their things.
Just my 0.02.
You have a wonderful day. Day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
great series thank you for uploading. 👍👍
I like this series as well as Sea Patrol. I started my U.S. Navy Career in 1975 and retired in 1997. I served on three ships USS Seattle AOE-3, Inchon LPH-12 and Butte AE-27
This is a bloody Beautiful Episode. Helping non citizen of your country. Humanitarian in Nature. If all the Navies do this our world will be at peace and harmony. 💯👏👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 GOD BLESS.
Two fictional RAN patrol boats were depicted in the series. Attack class patrol boat HMAS Ambush (portrayed by HMA Ships Advance and Bombard)
Advance was built by Walkers Ltd in Maryborough Qld & Bomdard was built at the Evans Deakin Shipyard at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane Qld. Both of these companies are now part of Downer EDI Ltd.
We're not all born after 1990 and want to know those sort of details lol
Thanks for uploading these!
The refugee boat appearing in this episode appears to be the historical vessel Krait. I wonder if other people can confirm?
Others have made the same observation so you are probably right.
Confirm and actually far better than mist boats that came
@@andrewstackpool4911 The Krait is a national treasure cared for by the National Maritime Museum, I checked their gallery of photographs and it is definitely the Krait. James Davern had a knack of using good props for his productions. He was also a good sailor in his own right.
@Robert Chautard Jensen Thank you. I recognised her when the episode was aired and I think was used again. AndxI definitely know her history
Funny how you notice the brainwashing in this series (and others) now, it was not quite so obvious at the time. We live and learn, eh ?
The reffo boat is the Krait
I guess it that lady did not know it Australia did fight in Vietnam too?
She did, and after the US pulled out post Paris, Australia faced a huge wave of refugees. So we took them in and they have set up here. This ep shows a fairly typical example of those times. And here, we see the RAN which had fought in the Nam now helping those who fled after persecution by the North. That is what this navy does
@@andrewstackpool4911 only when there's not a real war on
@James While never a declared war, it was a real war. The refugees were the result of the final fall of the South when people there were rounded up and either executed or placed in concentration camps in the finest Communist tradition. They weren't fleeing the war. They were fleeing the peace
@@andrewstackpool4911 my point was if there's not a war on the military do exercises like this .now probably the word real confused you and for that I apologise but in terms of being educated about Vietnam I was educated by a human beings not a computer so I'm quite aware of what happened
@James I'm not sure I appreciate your comments or attitude. And I'm curious as to who were the humans who taught you. Also I'm very aware of the meaning of real. You are not. I was in Vietnam with the RAN as well as in operations against potential Chinese or Russian conflict. Also I was very much - in the A-boats - involved with refugee ops including dealing with the bodies of poor bastards who never made it. So no I don't need a gd computer or people to teach me. Reality was my teacher.
Help me out here, I don't know much about Vietnamese refugees in Australia. I'm looking at a map and to get from Vietnam to Australia, they would have to make a conscious effort to go around the third-largest island in the world, plus they would have to find an opening in that chain of elongated Indonesian islands that seperate the Java Sea from the Timor Sea. So it's not like they were drifting helplessly with no options the whole way, right?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_boat_people
They were our Allies in the Vietnamese Civil War.
It's the least we could do after killing thousands of their people and then leaving them to it.
@@MicMc539 They were from the south. The VC and NVA murdered thousands of their people post th cave in in Paris. We did not kill thousands of their people, we tried to protect them. It was the north did the killing of civilians all same Pol Pot in Cambodia. And no, it was not a civil war it was Viet Minh vs the Cong
Oh and we did not leave them to it, that was the craven US government at Paris bowing to the scumbag commie loving left and their treasonous protestors who attacked returning servicemen. Get your facts together.
@@andrewstackpool4911 Geez Andy, you seem a little angry and very ill-informed.
Let's straighten you out.
It's Vietnam, and has a History back to 500 B.C.
They're one people with one Culture and we got involved in
THEIR CIVIL WAR.
Are you saying the U.S. Civil War is any different?
One people=one Country.
North V South.
Did we differentiate the Japs killing Queenslanders from Victorians?
No, they killed Australians!
Same - same!
Australians killed thousands of them, all Vietnamese, and
incidentally, we likely killed a lot more from the South than the North. (Poor bastards in D445!)
No. We shat our pants, ran and left them to it, in league and in concert with our U.S. Ally.
Allies in Invading, promising one side we would win, being defeated and running out on them.
Don't bitch about ''craven US negotiators'' or ''scumbag commies'' or ''treasonous protestors'' losing the War.
They weren't in Phuoc Tuy or Hue, it was our Military!
The Vietnamese out-fought, out-bled and out-matched us, our resolve and our Allies.
We lost.
Fair and square.
It was V.C., N.V.A., A.R.V.N., Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, The Philippines and the Yanks fighting it out, and our side got flogged on the Battlefield.
So we bailed on the losing side and left them to their Fate.
So that's what REALLY happened in a War we should never have been in and never had any chance of winning.
I'll say it again.
It's the least we could for people we led on in a forlorn cause, and then cut and run out on.
DUTY FIRST.
@@MicMc539 we didn't kill South Vietnamese ?
I noticed your last name was Rowe any relation to Scott and Greig?
No James, my brother Trevor was a CD, I was a SR.
@@GarryRowe Greg of Storm Boy fame I knew his brother
This episode is diffrent to Sea Patrol. in Sea Patrol Swain got one child and he had to do a emergenty C section after the women died, he was able to delive the baby boy. plus in another episode when refergees was on a boat, only one spoke some english.