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A boat Grand Harbour Taken from the deck of Devonia as she was leaving G.H. for the 1966 T.H. school cruise. We were on our way to Libya to pick up some American kids. So pre-Gaddafi when El Adem was still operational.

A boat Grand Harbour

Taken from the deck of Devonia as she was leaving G.H. for the 1966 T.H. school cruise. We were on our way to Libya to pick up some American kids. So pre-Gaddafi when El Adem was still operational.

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Prefect   [Apr 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM]
Admiralty "Director" Class paddle tug, probably Director herself.
alexander   [Jan 02, 2012 at 04:05 PM]
Director as Faithful had already left for UK several years earlier.
Nick Woodley   [Jan 03, 2012 at 06:25 AM]
Director and Expert were in Malta at least until summer '67. We lived in Dockyard Terrace and they both moored in Dockyard creek
Prefect   [Feb 06, 2012 at 12:40 AM]
BTW El Adem was British, the Yanks were at Wheelus.
Martin Powell   [Feb 06, 2012 at 04:47 AM]
Landed at El Adem on the way to Cyprus DofE hike 1968. What a dump to be posted to. It had an RAF school too, we picked up 3 lads to take on to Cyprus.
Prefect   [Feb 06, 2012 at 07:01 AM]
Martin Powell   [Feb 06, 2012 at 07:59 AM]
Lovely shots Pref. I hate to read of good ships being sunk but I suppose no-one wanted to buy 25 yr old paddlers.
Prefect   [Feb 06, 2012 at 12:16 PM]
Well perhaps a better use of them than razor blades. Although paddles may have seemed very antiquated by then, as tugs there were manoeuvrability advantages before Herrs Voith & Schneiderbecame popular.
Martin Powell   [Feb 06, 2012 at 03:11 PM]
My uncle would have liked them too - he was on the Isle of Wight paddlers (Briish Rail) and they were NOT manoeuvrable - the two paddles could not move independently and they had to reverse into Portsmouth to berth, quite a feat in bad weather.
alexander   [Feb 22, 2021 at 09:21 PM]
DIRECTOR as Faithful left in 1961

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