My Dad was on the Vampire back in the 70s before transferring to Subs. I had the honour of following in his footsteps and joined the RAN roughly 30 years after he did. Thanks for posting this clip! I remember doing many a RAS before paying off in 2009.
I was on Sydney that trip.ask your father but I swear that day Vamps came up to fuel and a blow up batman or something I cant remeber exactly,blew away and vamps turned and went back and got it and came back and fueled, I am certain it was this RAS. the film you have of her approaching was after she recovered the stupid blow up that flew of, And I could be wrong but when she approached in the film there is a batman blow up on top of the bridge so that may be what they went back to get. :-)
My old man was was in the RN based at Devonport watched HMS Terrible aka Sydney built/launched and nice to see a daring class destroyer have you seen the latest daring class type 45 very nice by the way enjoyed the video
I took the footage from my husband's old 16mm film - no changes of speed were applied by me but maybe the frame rate of converting 16mm to video sped it up a bit.
My Dad was on the Vampire back in the 70s before transferring to Subs. I had the honour of following in his footsteps and joined the RAN roughly 30 years after he did. Thanks for posting this clip! I remember doing many a RAS before paying off in 2009.
euromellows 1 year ago
@euromellows I am planning to join the RAN after school. What is it like? I need a first person view. And whats RAS?
VocalIntuition 10 months ago
I was on Sydney that trip.ask your father but I swear that day Vamps came up to fuel and a blow up batman or something I cant remeber exactly,blew away and vamps turned and went back and got it and came back and fueled, I am certain it was this RAS. the film you have of her approaching was after she recovered the stupid blow up that flew of, And I could be wrong but when she approached in the film there is a batman blow up on top of the bridge so that may be what they went back to get. :-)
chartash69 1 year ago
Very old school, 696 UHF and AJE
KG84C 1 year ago
Nice to see the old Bat survives as a museum piece in Sydney Harbour.
Few warships get that honour around the world. Sadly ,majority are scrapped or sunk as fishing reefs. Good old 11, 11. A lucky number indeed.
Will we ever see a HMAS Vampire 2 ? An Aircraft Carrier perhaps?
grl8862 1 year ago
great video clip. I'm a 20 year vet of the US Navy. Signalman. I tried to read the aussie signalman at 1.40 and all i caught was " ..is not alym...".
tumblindice66 1 year ago
excellent video, I myself was a stoker on this bat from 1982/4.
princejuchau 2 years ago
@princejuchau how was it like ? what was your rank ?
samihasib 1 year ago
I was on the 'bat' in later years, but watching this really brought back memories. Many many thanks. Nothing like a RAS to break the monotony.
Brasso68 2 years ago
My old man was was in the RN based at Devonport watched HMS Terrible aka Sydney built/launched and nice to see a daring class destroyer have you seen the latest daring class type 45 very nice by the way enjoyed the video
PeterS339 2 years ago
Great clip, loved it.
My only criticism is that it would've been nice to see it in normal speed. LW02 never turned that fast!
mongrellius 3 years ago
Hi,
I took the footage from my husband's old 16mm film - no changes of speed were applied by me but maybe the frame rate of converting 16mm to video sped it up a bit.
Melroy64 3 years ago
BZ Loved the clip
GDR3131 3 years ago
Great footage and great video quality
hobart1850 3 years ago
Great video, brought back a lot of memories of the mob.
sass14282 3 years ago