1950s ROYAL NAVY RECRUITMENT FILM HMS RALEIGH & HMS GANGES SHORE ESTABLISHMENTS GG43945

[@dabtoe48]

Entered the Annexe gates on Oct. 12th. 1948. Best thing I have ever done. Still get nostalgic at 92!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

@dabtoe48 bless you for your service.

[@chrisbeard1750]

I joined Ganges in Feb 55 at the tender age of exactly 15 and 4 months. Left 18 months later as a Junior Signalman. I loved every minute of it. Went back as an instructor in 1964. Loved that too. Best things I ever did. Bit of a different story now.

[@RetiredSailor60]

I joined the US Navy 42 years ago. Would retire 21 years later.

[@ARZA-k3w]

In Iraq I'm dying to enter the military college , but they want you to pay for them to get approval to join the army . What a shame .

[@skylongskylong1982]

These were the days when the Royal Navy was the second largest Navy in the world, and most modern. Today it is a mere shadow of its former self.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

@@skylongskylong1982 2 brand new aircraft carriers and the Type 45 destroyer, still at the leading edge of tech, even if the size has shrunk.

[@tonyelliott7734]

​@@Вивсівідстій The Royal navy existed before the United States was established.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

@@tonyelliott7734 Very true Tony , only a Landlubber would make such an ill informed comment. Fair winds.

[@mrjockt]

Must be a very, very late 1950's recruitment film, it shows a County class destroyer firing missiles and the first of those wasn't commissioned until 1960.

[@petersoerent2554]

Yes ! Early 60s ! I noticed exactly the same ! HMS Devonshire was commissioned late in 62.

[@redginge4840]

I was on a county class from 81 to 84 so we got our money out of them.

[@terencericketts8017]

Joined HMS Raleigh 15th November 1965 has a seaman ..signed on 12 years .

[@peter2023]

Me to as a stoker, loved HMS Raleigh, top of my class,, stupid decision come out of the navy and got married to the most best wife I loved ..her dad was a Japanese POW 4.5

[@dulls8475]

I watch this to look at the country we have destroyed. To remind me what we had...

[@richcook2007]

Same here in the states.

[@dulls8475]

@@richcook2007 You have some hope though with Trump. We have a Labour government who will remove ever more freedoms.

[@magnuslundin682]

@@dulls8475trump is a fascist, not much hope there

[@cathybrind2381]

@@dulls8475 Hope with Trump??????

[@dulls8475]

@@cathybrind2381 Either that or communism.

[@kubamiszczz]

it reminds me a song of frank sinatra: we join the navy to see the world, but all we see is just a sea

[@carltrotter6532]

Fred Astaire.

[@kubamiszczz]

@@carltrotter6532 it could be

[@tonyyarbray]

I like the 1969 Monty Python Navy recruitment video better...can you dig it?

[@chrisbeard1750]

.......PS. Left the RN in October 1989 at the not so tender age of 50!

[@cathybrind2381]

I say you chaps. Hurry up and join the navy while we've still got one left to join.

[@infantryricky6807]

Ahh, I'm just not feeling it, the way other recruitment ads do! A little dramatic background music probably would've resulted in more recruits signing up.

[@SteamboatWilley]

It's not exactly exciting, is it? The clipped 1960s RP accent doesn't help, either. "The pay is good". Well, I should hope so!

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

A left handed 10” signalling lamp

[@chrisbeard1750]

Good point. All the ones I used were right handed. In fact we were encouraged always to use our right hands, even if your were left handed. The American equivalent has a handle on both sides. Happy days.