John Field

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Just happened upon this web site. I joined the fighting F56 in Swan Hunters yard. Think it was 1968. Did the first commish on there. Good trip, right round the world. Would like to hear from anyone interested in getting in touch with me. I am now living in Mid Wales. Contact the Assosiation  

Cheers
Gracie / Fido / Fiddler

12 thoughts on “John Field”

  2. Mike France

    Joined late 1968 Comms. branch – left on de-commission in Devonport 1969. Only about a dozen of us stayed onboard to hand over to next commission.

  3. pmc avinnie

    i stood by argonaut,it wasnt swans yard,but hawthorn leslies shipbuilders of hebburn co durham side of the tyne,

  4. Mike Gould

    I remember John Field very well from when I was an OD in the junior mess before moving into the comms mess with Mike France. I still have the original commissioning book with the original crew listed. Regards to all old 56ers Mike Gould (ex golly)

  5. Jim Peggie

    I remember you Gracie, a stokey boy always hanging around our galley door which was by the engine room hatch.

    And you as well Oscar, although you were a deck ape you always made sure we chefs got plenty of Queens. The rum issue used to be in a for’d flat near the gun bay.

    Cheers lads. Jim Peggie ex cook first commish F56.

  6. Fraser Lees (Townsey)

    Hi
    Just come across this website and see that one or two of you were around in the Hawthorn Leslie time. I was also there as a JREM we went to sea 4 or 5 times under the red ensign before the ship was handed over to the RN. Left the ship in Sydney (Aus 1969 ish) cannot remember the exact dates.
    Any others on there during that time?

  7. Mike Gould

    Hi Townsey
    I was also onboard for the first world trip and can remember you. I was a junior golly when she left blighty. I still have the original commish book with original crew listed.

    regards,

    Mike Gould

  8. Geoff Cooper ME1

    I was on first comish too, left her after world cruise.
    has anybody pictures etc: of the huge wave like a tsuname while crossing from Fiji to Canada.

  9. John Gaitskell

    Hi Geoff.I joined in Sydney for the journey home.No photies of the “wave” but I do remember it being a bit lumpy,it turfed me out of my pit as OOD entered on his evening rounds.If I recall,you lived near B. on Trent.I live near Lichfield now.

  10. John Field

    Hmm, just browsing. Came across this site and this post about me! I was on the fighting F56 first commish. Roy Card; Windy Gale; Jock Evans etc etc. Great commish, had a good trip right round the world. Finished my last 11 years as a P.O.G.I Left in 1981. Sermi retired now, part time coach driver

  11. Iain Dempster

    It made me smile when I read some of the comments on here. I was a junior stoker on the Argonaut on the first commission and joined the ship in Hebburn. To be immediately bussed off to Rosyth with some of the other juniors for an expedition in the highlands because the ship couldn’t accommodate us. Great times were also had during our time with NATO and the Far East tour.

  12. Tommy Chamberlain

    Joined F56 in Fiji early Oct 1969 after chasing her all round the far east. Remained on board till March 1972. Really enjoyed that commish. Does anyone remember Typhoon Rose when we were rounded up from the China Fleet Club in Hong Kong and had to sail through it and turn around to come back to the devistation of the aftermath

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