Procedure Alpha + Bent Wessex

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Procedure Alpha + Bent Wessex

#1 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:45 pm

How embarrassing! All the pomp and ceremony of HMAS Success entering port in Procedure Alpha - Ship's Company lining the sides - and a bent Wessex spoils it all! It was the result of ground resonance.(August 1989).
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Re: Procedure Alpha + Bent Wessex

#2 Post by izod tester » Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:55 pm

Good Heavens, a matelot using a landlubber type expression. I would have thought the navy would call it deck resonance.

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