"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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Lower deck of what? Landlocked Nuneaton in Warwickshire seems a very
odd
place for a lower deck rating to be based. Noted originally for its
castle, silk, mining and railway engineering.

HMS Gamecock....many a navy base was landlocked....or shud I say many a
Fleet Air Arm station was landlocked....in my days of old many a
'week-end
warrior' spent time there.....H

I've seen it alleged that the Germans claimed to have sunk HMS Ganges in
(IIRC) the second great unpleasantness.

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