Humor: Sailor stories

by Michael Collins

Navy. Excitement engulfed me as I walked up the gangway of my first ship, HMS Antrim, in the late 70's. Royal Navy basic training had been hell for a chubby, spotty Mummy's boy from South London. They had seemingly ma...read more

by Travis Casey

Being on a ship, one builds a strong bond with one's other shipmates. At sea, we never knew what might be encountered and these were the very people you would entrust with your life. On shore, we never knew what might be...read more

by Virgil Teague

Naval officers often work under pressure, performing specialized and often dangerous tasks within a highly-structured bureaucracy laden with custom and tradition. Measurement of their skills and suitability for promotion d...read more

by Robert Likens

Me, a sailor? Naw It was bad enough growing up during my tender years, there were no tender years, and being saddled with the nickname of "Rat." It became a little more frustating early in my Navy career by picking up...read more

by Carl Halling

My First Trip with HMS Thames 1973 was the year of my first trip with the Royal Naval Reserve at 17 years old on the minesweeper HMS Thames, destined as I recall for Bordeaux, during which I fell in with an immensely go...read more

by Duncan Coldstream

To most men, losing our virginity is almost a right of passage. Even if we don't acknowledge it to our fellows, it is the hurdle that looms largest the further we venture into the quagmire of maturity. It is the jump to ma...read more

by Donald Hancock

LIKE A BIRD'S SONG "Haul out the bassinet, we've got another little ship' on the horizon!" That was Susan's way of telling her sailor husband that he was soon to be a father for the second time. "Hey, Mate! That's a goo...read more

by Robert Moten

Off the coast of Jamaica our ship arrived. 20 dead 22 alive , it was a long night but beautiful morning. What was meant and what happened if ever were the same thing this life this universe is totally out of our hands. Fat...read more

by B. L. Babb

I had been on active duty for well over 5-6 years or so when this incident occurred. To protect the innocent, names are modified or omitted. The location is Norfolk, Virginia in the mid 1980s. I was stationed aboard Y...read more

by Ross Dix-Peek

J.L.R. Stoll: An Afrikaans-Speaking South African in the Royal Navy You could be forgiven for thinking that John Luke Richard Stoll was a "pukka" Englishman, born and bred in verdant England, or so his name would sugg...read more

by Kat Haile

Sailors, have you ever noticed that sailors get wet all the time, because they are on water of course. But on year at the y-flyer nationals, my brother wasn't just on the water, he was in it... My dad and my brother were ...read more