The Second HMS Manchester Association

Hull & Inside ME's (hats off)

Bahrain - March 1991 - first port of call after GW1.

Great bunch of guys

Hull & Inside ME's (hats on)

Bahrain - March 1991

Still a great bunch of guys!

Hull Department - Bahrain March 1991

Believed to be - L to R - Mini Cooper, Dave Heasman ?, Linda Lovelace (don't remember issuing maintenance cards to her!!) Richie.

Front row - L to R - Archie Geddes, Pete Hull, Nick Athawes, POMEA (name please?) and at the front Rosie the budgie - landed at a school in Gib on the passage home as we could not return with her to the UK.

L to R - ??, Eddie Over, Robby Robinson, Scouse Hayward, Brendon Macglinchy, JC Ceaser, Al Denham, Pony Moore, Brian Logan, Bob Ryan, ?? and Mick Whitehouse

Back row L to R - Brendan Macglinchy, JC Ceaser, Al Denham, Mick Whitehouse, ??, Robby Robinson, Scouse Hayward, Bob Ryan, Pony Moore and Eddie Over

Front kneeling - Brian Logan

After cycling from Cambeltown to Manchester - presenting cheque to nurses at the Booth Hall Children's Hospital

PO's Mess Gulf deployment Tug of War champions...

Back Row L to R - JC Ceaser, Scouse Hayward, Nobby Clarke, Al Denham

Front Row L to R - Pony Moore, Penny Penfold, Mick Whitehouse

Chef's ready for action as ever! L to R - Charlie Charlesworth, Butch, Bannerman, Me & ?

Supply Dept's weekly bash with skipper, he's the one dressed sensibly in the white shorts and tucked in yellow shirt on right!

Vidal Baboons salon

Vidal Baboon, aka Ernie Earnshaw at work in his salon doing magical things to Nick Athawes's already luxuriant mane. Memories!!

The other "Mighty M"

USS Missouri on patrol in the Gulf 1991 - most of the time she was firing shells the size of minis over our heads!

Gulf Mine watch

The loneliness of the Mine look out. Taken in the Gulf February 1991. Unknown hero ever alert complete with action duffle bag to his right.

CPO's big run ashore in Singapore in 1991 getting ripped off in a camera shop. L to R - Taff Rees, Andy Green, Sel Patch, Jay Muir and Nick Athawes (looking better blurred!!)

Gunnery practice

Nick Athawes walks away secure in the knowledge that there is one less oil barrel in the world to cause harm to the poor and innocent, after gunnery practice on the port after Oerlikon mounting. Andy Green also proved to be a bit of a marksman.

Hear no evil, see no evil & speak no evil - CPO's Mess with Kev Viggers, Chris Baker and Wafoo ? - I think Chris is after a sub for his duty, so watch out Kev he's going to pop the question!!

Red Sea - 1991

Master Chefs, Andy Holbrow, Andy Green, Nick Athawes & Sel Patch. Nick holds the patternised BBQ lighting equipment, i.e. 1 gallon of Avcat and a match! Method for use - Pour liberally, strike match and stand back, about 100 yards back, actually!! Also note the Webber BBQ set, the half 45 gallon drum model!

Gulf BBQ - Red Sea - 1991

During the gastronomic feast a full blown RAS(L) was occurring on the Port side. The Master Chefs are - L to R - Sel Patch, Andy Holbrow (the well hung Cowboy) and Nick Athawes. I bet that's a Wafoo at the front of the queue!! That is not smoke it is the heady aroma of Michelin star cooking.

Just out of shot is that nice Ian Sheridan in the stocks. Bloody big queue to have a chuck at him!!

The observer, or pilot, proudly shows off his condom, piece of carrot and precious drinking water - oops sorry "gold fish", that he won from one of the many "stalls of dreams" on the flight deck.

Eyes down for a full house. Who says that Tombola is just a game. Try telling that to Andy Holbrow and Ian Sheridan as they go head to head for the big prize. With the spectator on edge you could cut the atmosphere with a knife, a blunt one at that!

Archie Dickie in his very controversial BT Telecoms top, what bad taste!! Chris Baker in his standard run ashore threads, just bad really!!

The fashion police swooped just after this picture was taken. Many being sent down for a 10 stretch. Habitual fashion offenders had their outfits confiscated and given to the Chinese laundryman where they had all the buttons broken off and the seams rotted away (nothing new there then!!)

Nick Athawes, in Mini Coopers best run ashore outfit and Andy Green in God knows what!

Bad Taste Night - Tioman 1991

Location of the filming for South Pacific