It started to go downhill when the rum ration was abolished!! Scallywags
the lot!!!

CM

"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
The Navy starting going downhill when they got rid of those guys shoveling
coal. Next, they actually enclosed the bridges! What wimps! Then they
stopped teaching and using the sextant.

I miss the good old days too, rocks for ballast and tarred hemp rigging.