Canberra Engineers

The engineers were a "rough around the edges" group of people. This photograph caused a lot of friction between the chief engineer and the other engineers. He wanted us to dress in full blues uniform. We wanted boiler suits. As you can see he conceded but when we saw his photograph in "The Great White Whale Goes To War" he was wearing his dressing gown. In hindsight it would have been nice to have been in uniform.

My partners in crime were (in no particular order):

C/E/O A.W. Bownass	2/E/O B.R.Flower-Ellis	3/E/O M.E.Harris
2/E/O M.E.Eltham	3/E/O J.F.Shaw	1/E/O N.W.Pound
2/E/O D.M.Garry	3/E/O D.Barraclough	3/E/O B.J.Dover
3/E/O J.R.Adamson	3/E/O H.McNicol	3/E/O C.Fuller
4/E/O W.D.Beveridge	4/E/O I.M.Anderson	4/E/O A.Richards
4/E/O A.J.Webb	A/E/O A.Flather	A/E/O B.L.North
A/E/O S.J.Collier	A/E/O R.M.Bramham	2/EL/O D.G.Thomas
Jun 2/EL/O G.P.Murphy	2 V/O J.N.Taylor	4/E/O A.P.Lightfoot
4/E/O M.J.Ross	4/E/O P.Green	4/E/O J.A.Lewis
A/E/O P.R.Heslop	A/E/O T.J.Copp	A/E/O P.J.Hancock
A/E/O T.J.Lyne	1/EL/O A.S.Bell	2/EL/O D.F.Cole
A/El/O T.D.Frith	Jun 2/El/O M Riley	SN/AS/El/O H D Kelly

Twelve to Four Watch

Mike Eltham, Phil Hancock (me), Simon Collier
Gerry Murphy, Hugh (Sugie) McNicol, Charlie Hill

"Granny" Green and two crew members in the boiler room (Note the gas masks around the waist)  

The normal Pakistani crew were replaced by Yemeni crew for the period of the war. All engineers worked in pairs for the duration of the voyage. Granny and Dougie "The diplomat" were heard to utter many expletives when bombs exploded a little to close, shaking soot into the boiler room.