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    Ship's Bell from HMS Edinburgh

    I mentioned the ship's bell from the wartime "Town class" cruiser HMS Edinburgh in another post this evening and that it is now located in the Scottish war museum at Edinburgh castle. Here is a picture of the bell which I photographed a few years ago while on a visit to Scotland. I believe that there is some damage to the bell, not visible in the picture, which I assume happened when the ship was sunk during the war. As previously mentioned the ship was transporting Russianicon gold which was eventually salvaged in more recent years.
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    I see that the ships bell from HMS Hood has been recovered too - as has that from the battle cruiser Repulse.

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    I believe that HMS Repulse and/or Prince of Wales may be in relatively shallow water and there have been concerns about items from the wrecks "disappearing". I seem to recall hearing or seeing somewhere that there were some technical difficulties in the recovery of Hood's bell.

    I use to work with someone who had a relative on board HMS Repulse at the time she was sunk. The chap was working down in a compartment, below decks, with his shipmates with hatches and doors etc closed. The first that he knew of the fact that the ship was sinking was when water started coming into his compartment. He and his comrades took their turn to climb out of the compartment, in an orderly manner, and he survived but sadly a number of fellow sailors who were in the same compartment didn't make it out and went down with the ship.


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    Of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales............. shaggy dog story coming up! At the big Base Workshop in Ayer Rajah Road in Singapore where we REME, RNZEME RM&SEME and RAEME blokes used to gather for various training programmes, trade tests etc etc was a tropicalised training centre for the Air Techs. And in there was an almost brand new, complete glass fronted small helicopter (I forget what it was now) that was used as a training example, with only a few miles on the clock to boot. This was in 1967 or so and the two ships Repulse and PoW had only been lost 25 years before so were totally complete, clearly visible in the low tidal water at a depth of 38 feet, 8 miles from Kuantan. At Kluang, just a few miles from Kuantan was a very small RAAF/RAF/Army air strip and a few manly attap and tented huts etc - plus a small aircraft maintenance facility. With me so far.........

    One day, this small helicopter had been subject to a good servicing and the Sgt Pilot who was due to test the helicopter piled a few of the REME/RAEME fitter mates into the chopper for a 30 minute 'test flight' NOT a jolly you understand......., but a real test flight. This 'test flight' was going to take them all over the two wrecks and in the right light so that they'd be able to take some photos. The HUGE wrecks were clearly visible in the clear water and especially so at the right angle to the sun. So off they all went. Remember that this was a 'test flight' and the fact that the over-loaded 'crew' were his mates and they were flying away from the test flight proscribed area, over the ships to take some photos and a look-see was purely coincidental. Yes...., purely coincidental.

    All well and good so far. The 'test flight' was going well so the pilot went down REALLY low - in fact, one of the crew, Pete MacDonald thought that they were going to land on one of the ships! Mind you, a few minutes later, his prophesy almost came true! It would seem that they were so low that the intakes took in a whole load of salt water. I don't know what happens to a helicopter engine when it does, but seemingly, it spluttered, coughed and did the sort of things that sick helicopters do.......... The baddest thing was that it wouldn't lift.............. especially with the overloaded 'crew' on board. It struggled/limped west at just over sea level for about 7 miles until it got to within a mile or so from Kuantan where they decided they'd land on the beach, the pilot and official crew-fitters would remain while the other 2 or 3 would sneak back to 17 Brigade at Kluang '......somehow' (it wasn't far). A couple thought that they could easily jump out to lighten it. It was so low and they were close to land and only dressed in shorts. But the East coast - the South China Sea - has the sharks..........

    But the helicopter wasn't having any of it and dumped itself in about 8 feet or so of water a mile away from land. There was no real danger as it had no doors anyway so they swam up and away and pretty much swam/paddled back to the beach where some of the locals had watched their antics. The helicopter remained there for a couple of days and many tides later until it was recovered by the recovery mechs and written off as no use to anyone ever again. A big board of enquiry followed but it was an active service area so a few arxes were kicked, the helicopter written off and downgraded to a non-flying training aid (easier to cover up that being written off as scrap) and wrists slapped and hastily swept under the carpet.

    So whenever I read about the Repulse and Prince of Wales, guess what brings a smile to my face? Not so funny at the time for those involved but afterwards.............

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