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Admiralty "Director" Class paddle tug, probably Director herself.
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Director as Faithful had already left for UK several years earlier.
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Director and Expert were in Malta at least until summer '67. We lived in Dockyard Terrace and they both moored in Dockyard creek
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BTW El Adem was British, the Yanks were at Wheelus.
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Landed at El Adem on the way to Cyprus DofE hike 1968. What a dump to be posted to. It had an RAF school too, we picked up 3 lads to take on to Cyprus.
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Faithful. Director. Expert.
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Lovely shots Pref. I hate to read of good ships being sunk but I suppose no-one wanted to buy 25 yr old paddlers.
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Well perhaps a better use of them than razor blades. Although paddles may have seemed very antiquated by then, as tugs there were manoeuvrability advantages before Herrs Voith & Schneiderbecame popular.
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My uncle would have liked them too - he was on the Isle of Wight paddlers (Briish Rail) and they were NOT manoeuvrable - the two paddles could not move independently and they had to reverse into Portsmouth to berth, quite a feat in bad weather.
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DIRECTOR as Faithful left in 1961
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