Death of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet.

My paper has reported the recent death of the above officer. As a very effective commander of Royal Navy submarines, he notched up the sinking of much enemy tonnage both German and Japanese. When commanding HMSubmarine "Trenchant", Hezlet laid an ambush for U-859 which was only 60 minutes away from berthing in Penang after a six month voyage from Germany. Is that a bummer, or what ? One hour away from your destination port after a 6 month voyage, only to get torpedoed ! Ten German seamen were taken prisoner, one of which was heard banging on the conning tower hatch when "Trenchant" was diving. She re-surfaced and took on board a very pleased German seaman. He was so grateful that he fixed the boats German designed de-salination plant which had never worked since "Trenchant" had left port.

 

BG Fables

AH!! BG reads the Telegraph!

 

Funnily enough IIRC so did Marlin, he also used to post on here regarding relevant obituaries.

It's such a remarkable coincidence... :roll:

 

Re: BG Fables

I surely do, and mainly because the obituaries of any other newspapers are mainly limited to those of social workers, minor politicians, drug addled rock stars and dissipated aristos ! It's gotta be the DT if you (like myself) wish to be reminded of our elders and betters when they depart this miserable Earth !

 

Two minds with but one single, noble thought !

 

wecome back bg ,post away and damn thr torpedoes ...