by Hornbeam » Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:42 am
Good Heavens, I wonder if she was on Barrier Duties which seemed to be the Wartime role of Self Propelled Hoppers, bit of a culture shock for the Americans serving on a that type of vessel I would have thought.
Looks like a Sister ship of No2, Theo was her Chief quite a character, doing the Relief on No2 could end up with a long handover session as Theo was quite pedantic about what work had been done. When I was on her she still had a Whale Oil Tank down the Engineroom.
During WW2 Theo was Chief on the Cargo Fleet Hopper when she hit a Mine whilst he was tying his shoe lace, the Butts came up and smacked him in the face.