John Newman
The Bunker Group
It's funny that you mention 26oz beer cans, that brings back memories.I was in her on that trip. It looks a little worse than it felt.
We were on an Indian Ocean deployment, our navigator chose a direct line course from Bass Str. to Cape Leeuwin, HMAS Supply decided to be clever and take the Great Circle route and she got hammered by a Low enroute, arrived in Fremantle with the forward cargo hatch flooded, not a huge problem except the entire deployment beer was stowed there in cartons. Those were the days when Reschs Pilsner was the favoured choice, 26oz steel cans.
You can imagine the cluster f.
One hot January weekend in 1976, I was about 17, I went and stayed with an old uncle in Coogee, I had a girlfriend that was staying with her mother in Bronte (the girlfriend was half Dutch and half Portuguese, hmmm, memories!), I digress...
Anyway, the old uncle was a big drinker and I remember getting up about 7.00am and walking into the kitchen, and there was old uncle Ron having his usual liquid breakfast, a 26oz can of Flag Ale or two!
Before I could say no, he opened another 26oz can (with the old fashioned can opener that pierced two holes in the top) and poured me a schooner glass of Flag. I didn't mind a drink, but Flag tasted like shit, absolute shit!
Memories.
Cheers,