Young 'salts' Man The Mast (1965)

[@peterfrazer1943]

As a Royal Marine from the sixties, These videos always make my eyes water. What a different World we live in now to then, not all for the better. Those young Matelots were taught by the best and they themselves were the best. Can you imagine the outcry if we sent kids to do that now.

[@seachester]

We do! Sail training still exists :)

[@Oakleaf700]

Tough as nails, disciplined...nowadays it would be tears and ''I'm autistic! I can't climb that high, or some such twaddle/

[@TesseractPleiadesOrion]

@@Oakleaf700 Nostalgia is a sad illness indulged in by the old and decrepit. Luckily it's beatable (due to the old farts dying off just as their deluded reminiscing starts to get irritating)... 😁👌🏾

[@Oakleaf700]

@@TesseractPleiadesOrion Kids nowadays are starting school in diapers, can barely string a sentence together and are feeble long before they reach old age. Every one suffers an alphabet soup of acronyms.

[@MelanieJolie]

My dad was in the RM band - only a very brief shot of the band playing but he was there ❤️⚓️🇬🇧

[@philipemery5503]

I climbed that mast many times in 65/66. When first climbing we had to go over Devils Elbow which was the first platform. There was an easier way which we were permitted to use, a hatch way through the platform. Over the elbow made you be less fearful. They were good days

[@068694]

I joined 10th July 1962 at the tender age of 15years old. Served twice more as ships company in 65 and 67. Went up the mast many times but never stood on the top. Tough years were the training years and never forgotten .I live over the water in Great Oakley near Harwich and I can see it every day, but it's now a building site but believe the mast and Nelson Hall are protected.

[@tamar5261]

I was at Ganges in 72. We used to go up the mast every Sunday. Half moon was compulsory, higher up was voluntary. I went up to the bit before the pole for the button and the mast was swaying in the wind. How those sailors of old used to climb these at sea, at night in a storm defies belief. I believe half of the mast at Ganges is still standing.

[@ScareyCarey13]

I went this weekend, 07.10.2023, the Mast has been restored, worked on by a Team that did the Mary Rose, it's been back up for 3 weeks, the site is housing now, with more to come.....

[@whiteonggoy7009]

My palms sweat just watching this..

[@matthewpowell6516]

my uncle went on that mass in the 60s when he was just 15 or 16.

[@admiralcraddock464]

Some SERIOUS balls there

[@davidjohnmorgan5389]

went up to half moon in Feb1963,still have a great fear of heights.

[@NickNZ]

This would have ‘Health and Safety’ quivering with rage.

[@johnyoung8727]

I'm 54 years of age. East End, family all of whom, except my Brother and I were Merchant Men. I'm not Man enough to polish these people's boots. What people we bred then.

[@Oakleaf700]

Something seriously wrong has gone wrong with {Some} children these days. I think it's single parents being soft with their kids[?]

[@Cyrusmagi]

Merchant men had easy life training at gravesend

[@johnyoung8727]

@Cyrusmagi In 1952 they didn't !

[@pompeymonkey3271]

Fred Dibnah: "Hold my beer."

[@caseyjonessnr1200]

Magnificent.

[@senseofthecommonman]

Respect

[@moatl6945]

1:33 Automatic subtitles is special: »…Gwyn was given a _clown_ coin…«

[@richardking6066]

I was there!