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NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2008 17
A FLURRY of small vessels – and one
liner has been conducting a farewell tour, a tour Among the Mancunians enjoying the spectacle be able to take out an aerial threat.
large one in distinctive battleship grey –
which took her to the river of her birth. on the Clyde was WO Bill Parry who remembers It proved to be rough in the aerial test ranges,
paid homage to the greatest merchant
The cruise ship was built at the (now defunct) the QE2 more fondly than most of his shipmates. but no matter, the remote controlled drone was
John Brown yard – which also built HMS Hood, Twenty-six years ago, the Cunard liner joined smashed out of the sky by a direct hit from the
ship of her generation as the QE2 sailed
Vanguard, Duke of York and the Royal Yacht the task force heading south to liberate the missile.
up the Clyde one last time.
Britannia, as well as QE2’s predecessors, Queen Falklands. “The sound of the missile leaving the rail
Destroyer HMS Manchester was among the craft Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
And among those the liner brought home in the was awesome,” enthused ET(WE) ‘Dinger’ Bell,
waiting in the Forth of Clyde for a fi nal glimpse of She did not sail as far as the site of the Brown summer of 1982 were sailors from sunken ships, witnessing his first Sea Dart launch.
the cruise liner. yard, only to Greenock on the south bank of the including the crew of HMS Antelope and one Bill “It was great to be part of the firing section and
The QE2 has clocked up nearly six million Clyde, where a sizeable crowd was waiting – as Parry. He paid an emotional visit to the ship which is an experience I’ll remember for a long time.”
nautical miles in a career spanning 40 years. That was a fl otilla of craft, led by Manchester. carried him safely home from war. Manchester has a typically busy few weeks
career comes to an end imminently when she’s The destroyer was in Scotland to take part in the As for the Busy Bee, she arrived on the Clyde ahead of her: after Joint Warrior there’s training
converted into a fl oating hotel, museum and latest Joint Warrior war game, which began that after a ‘high seas fi ring’ (you might have seen it on and exercising off Devonport, before a deployment
leisure complex in Dubai. same week and sucked in thousands of sailors, the front cover...). to the Falklands in the new year.
Before heading to the Middle East for good, the soldiers and airmen from Allied nations. Rough weather or fine, Sea Dart is expected to ■ Letters, pages 28-29
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