A Naval Occasion
REMEMBER going to a dance on a light cruiser on one occasion, years ago in Malta. -These ships are not so very much larger than a destroyer. The main difficulty was the enormous number of guests who simply had to be asked, and the lack of space to put them when they had arrived, The first lieutenant was a young man of considerable ingenuity. He realised that even a big ship would be cramped if all the guests were herded together, but that if they could be persuaded to keep on the move all could be accommodated quite comfortably. So first of all he staggered the hours of arrival, so that some arrived later than others; then he got permission to use two old hulks that [ay at anchor very near and were normally used as training boats by the local sea scouts. These were transformed with bunting borrowed from every possible source and lit by oldfashioned picket boat lamps; which are candles burning inside a kind of little brass house-heaven only knows where he got those from in these days of electricity. The two hulks were then renamed for the night, the "Pirates’ Den," and the "’Ugging "Utch," the former was where one had refreshment and the latter, as you may have guessed, was for
sitting out.-
-(" Naval Receptions." Mrs.
O. J.
Gerard
2YA, May 8.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 3
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230A Naval Occasion New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 3
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