Dunoon to Holy Loch
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Back in the days, this would have been a familiar taxi journey for US Navy personnel from the base at Holy Loch, Scotland. The Navy Exchange & Commissary (now a Co-op Supermarket) to the Navy base (now just an unused pier).
Will maybe bring back memories for some.
Video taken October 2013.
I walked this route more than a few times...in the dark after a night out in the Harmony, Clansman, Dolphin, and club 66 or Pier discos. Good times.
Haha the Dolphin and Pier was lit.
Was there in 81 and 82. Yard bird rebuilding the cranes on the wing walls of the Los Alamos. Don't remember which tender was there. Either the Hunley or the Canopis. Remember getting a glass bottle of milk from a truck for my breakfast every day before taking a taxi from the hotel to the Holyloch Pier. Partied at the pier in Dunoon on the weekends, and I remember a bar called the Dolphin that had a dolphin statue made up of pieces of chrome car bumpers welded together. I have a few other memories of that time, but they're kind of hazy due to Tenants lager. LOL Beautiful place. Loved every minute of it.
Thank you for bringing back the good memories. I was on Canopus 70-71. Great duty and great friends. The scottish people were always warm and friendly. I miss this place alot.
@SherryNicols after all these years the name doesnt ring a bell
@SherryNicols glad i could bring the memories back. Id love to see it again myself. Enjoy your trip and post a few pics. If it would interest you...theres a video on youtube of the Canopus being taken apart for scrap. Look up "ghost ship Canopus"
Boarded the Hunley in Late 81 at the weapons station in Charleston and sailed, messcranking, to Scotland. Left after 18 months. Passed through there and stopped for a couple of hours. Not much has changed. Thanks for the video.
In my day you knew every inch of that route… walked it , ran it, cycled it, drove it until finally leaving Sandbank in 1971… wouldn’t recognize it now… And the world keeps on spinning.
Thanks for the memory. Was there on the Holland from November of 75 thru May of 77. Didn't realize then how great of a time it was. Made that cab ride a hundred times or more to downtown for pints at PJs.
Yes, remember that route. Actually being a Druid, walked the roads from Dunoon to the site, feeling the forests that have stood for a long time. It felt ancient and good.
Made that trip a few times. Henry Clay Gold Crew 82-86. The road seems wider now.
This is a real memory trip, sailed the James Madison SSBN-627 in and out of Holy Loch 1970 thru 1976. GREAT TRIP, thank you for the video. Best regards, Dennis Lloyd, KV4WM
Thanks for this video. It's interesting to see where my husband spent many refits. We were married back in 1981 and he was on the USS Ulysses S Grant SSBN 631 for two 3 year stints. I was ombudsman for the second time he was on. I never got to go to Scotland as I had to stay at home with the children, but we sure did have some expensive phone bills!!! At least my calls to the Chief of the Boat, Master Chief Messier, were not billed to me, thank goodness!!! Scotland is so beautiful. I still want to visit!!! :-) Thanks again for the tour.
USS Simon Lake (AS-33). 1967-1970. Lived on the waterfront in Dunoon. Took my two sons fishing for cod in a dingy many times. Loved Scotland, miss it, miss the wonderful people I knew there.
That drive brought back a few memories. I used to walk everywhere and walked it quite a few times. I don't honestly remember the road having a walkway on the left as there is now.
Brian Cunningham there was no walk when I was there in '81....
+James Connell No sir. From the states. Was stationed there back in the 90's right before the USS Simon Lake left. Loved Scotland made quite a few friends there but lost touch with the lot of them. Hell, can't even remember more than a few first names anymore.
+Brian Cunningham Know the feeling! My tour was Simon 67-69, so many precious friends; so many forgotten names. Sigh
I must have taken that ride 100 times in '66-'67. Nothing looks even remotely familiar. Hell of a ride for a buck. LOL
served aboard the USS Canopus AS-34 73-75 in A-Div (A-Gang) small boats...made many a trip by taxi down this same route...I sure miss all the wonderful friends I made there!...that's Mr. Magoo to you Franko Rosconi!..lol
Wow, there in the 80’s & 90’s. On the Simon E Lake. My sons were born there at a midwife’s house. Closed it down when attached to subron 8. Got my 1st class stripes there. Made chief when we got back to Norfolk. We back to the boats, but holy loch stories are only for behind closed doors. First time there was on the Bone for a 2 day port call. Where we went from there can’t be told.
I walked many times down that pier to the boats.. Have fond memories of good ol' Sandbank and the chippy on Church St in Dunoon ran by the Italians..
+Cary Paganoff was the "baaamburger" wagon still at the head of the pier in the 80's.
+Ralph Wells yeah not sure what it was called then but there was always food
The chippy was Anselmo's across the street from the Victoria Pub. Many a casual evening meal of fish & chips on the benches outside with a pint of Younger's No. 3 best ale.. Served there with CSS-14 PMT. Miss the people and town like crazy. I was born on the crest of a wave, rocked in the cradle of the deep...
I recall the name Ferri. I was very familiar with them, as I speak Italian. Their family were from LaSpezia, and every six months, one family would fly to Scotland and work, and vice versa they had pizza too.
@@ralphwells1573 The little snack caravan was owned by the Hooper's. Yes, you could get some very good food there if you were polite. If not, they would put hot sauce or something on your food to make it nasty.
Was there from March 84 until Jan 86 on the Hunley.
+Cary Paganoff I was there on the Simon Lake from May 67 until Dec 69
Hunley 86-87 - BEST part of my Navy DAZE!
Seeing you pull up to the guard shack and pier brought back some memories.
Memories of Fred planting drugs on or harassing sailors
Interesting that most vids and comments posted about this little village are from those who spent time assigned to site 1 or in support of. Are locals watching these videos of their home town? Seems odd to me if they’re not.
man, this is wild, as many times as i made that trip back to the Holland (1980's), it seems a lot longer watching it this way,, of course it was dark, i'd had a few lagers and was busy downing my fish and chips from the local "chippie" ,,, thanks for posting this, you pulled up next to the Shore Patrol shack at the end, i spent 9 months in that building
I spent a year on Clyde Area Shore Patrol. I lived out of that building.
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I once got two beers past that guard shack an on to my Boat...GO AJ GOLD
Where's the pickled eggs!?!
Once the Yankees left Dunoon was fucked
Remember Edwin roman had an apartment right there
83-85 in the radio shack!
I recall a radioman....uhm....radiowoman...Winston. She made my day each time I had duty and had to collect the messages.
was this taking in a car
1978 to 1979 when we all were about to be snuffed out of existence by the fucking Russian's, that 18 months of my life among the Scots and the Brit's were the most influential days of my life. Thank You Scotland.
Hello Guy, what do you mean speaking snuffed out of existence by the fucking Russian's'?What did they do for you?I live in Russia, but one of my favorite places is Scotland, I visit Danoon and other places this summer. There are a lot of good, normal people in Russia, you have a one size fits all.Don`t you think?Can you explain?
Mister Pilligrim ......agree with you’ harsh dishonest comment about Russia and quite silly this is what comes of watching too many James Bond films.
@@TheManas1979 Yes, back in the day, we, the sailors of site 1, were told that the USSR had ICBM's targeted on our duty station. We would have about 5 minutes of warning before we were turned into ash or have the molten ships steel forever infused with radiation and our DNA. He really meant no offense. It was just the fear of the situation. Take care.
@@fredrickaappletree3402 Thanks, absolutely agree It's a west government`s propaganda! and brainwashing",obviously it works.