Category Archives: 1956 Olympic Games

Memories of The Fijian Police

Posted on January 27, 2015 by irishroverpei

Back in 2006 Linda and I visited the UK for a ten days. On the last day of our visit we stayed at a hotel near the airport awaiting our flight home the following morning. Whilst wandering around the hotel … Continue reading →

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A Terrible Lack of Respect.

Posted on March 19, 2014 by irishroverpei

At the end of the Sochi Olympics, the Island gold medalist Heather Moyse returned home to a huge reception in Summerside. Thousand attended to applaud her amazing achievement, she was hailed as an Island heroine. Our Premier was on hand … Continue reading →

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Olympic Games-Present & Past

Posted on February 8, 2014 by irishroverpei

I arrived in Melbourne Australia in November 1956 for the opening of the 16th Olympic Games. HMS Cockade was escort ship for the Royal Yacht Britannia with the Duke of Edinburgh aboard. After just viewing the grand opening at Sochi … Continue reading →

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Why Sochi?????

Posted on January 27, 2014 by irishroverpei

The World is a large place and many peoples have different ideas of what is okay and what is not okay. Take Sochi or maybe any part of Russia and ask yourself if its a suitable and friendly site for … Continue reading →

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Boycott The Sochi Olympics

Posted on August 7, 2013 by irishroverpei

This is a huge issue but as always it is gathering the usual rhetoric from politicians, particularly in the US. Obama has not ruled out a boycott but many voices are saying it will do no good. I hasn’t worked … Continue reading →

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HMS Cockade – My Other Family

Posted on December 17, 2012 by irishroverpei

I doubt in this day and age the kind of shipboard comradeship I experienced aboard HMS Cockade back in 1956 still exists. I flew from London to Singapore to join the Cockade in early August 1956. This grand old ship … Continue reading →

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A Driving Force

Posted on February 27, 2012 by irishroverpei

The best job I ever had in the Navy was as the ships Jeep driver in Melbourne Australia during the 1956 Olympic Games. I was a mere seventeen years of age and a very junior sailor. So how did I … Continue reading →

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Eye Spy!!

Posted on July 28, 2008 by irishroverpei

Here we are again, I’m adding a photo taken through the periscope of HM/SM Taciturn in the early 1960’s. Not sure whose coastline this was. In those dark days of the cold war we spied on the Russians and they … Continue reading →

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Olympic Games Melbourne Australia 1956

Posted on June 13, 2008 by irishroverpei

I was part of the Royal Naval Olympic Squadron escorting the Duke of Edinburgh aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. The Duke was scheduled to officially open the games. I was only seventeen but had one or the best jobs ever, … Continue reading →

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