HMS Ganges

[Subdeacon Joe]

Found on FB:

 

"H.M.S.GANGES, boy’s training establishment, I joined one month after my fifteenth birthday 1958.
      The mast is one hundred and forty two feet tall, on the second day of training, the first two were being shown around and kit issue, we had to climb up to the first platform through the lubbers hole and down the other side. As you can see we got better and better and some boys became “button boys” that’s the guy standing at the top. The last part was the worst you had to shin up the last part get hold of the lightning conductor and swing your leg round to sit on the button and then stand up. In my time the guy that did that, on ceremonial occasions received a half crown, twelve and a half pence, from the captain."