[Chief Telegraphist and one time Chief Radio Electrician]  [Chief Torpedo Mechanic - original Greenies badge]

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Hello, and Greetings. I was a Sparker in Malta in the the period 1957-1959 [after I had served in the Suez Crisis 1956 [HMS TYNE] and again HMS Aphrodite in Cyprus for the Eoka crisis for two months in early 1957]. The SPARKER starts the story [LASCARIS] {with the help of the Buntings who share the glory} , sending dit-dahs to the transmitter [RINELLA]:  the Greenies change the dit-dahs into radio waves to send to the Mediterranean Fleet [and far beyond too]: the Fleet answers and the Greenies, who have the aerial sites at ZEBBUG, send the aerial inputs to the radio receivers sited in the Commcen [Communications Centre]  for the Sparker to search and then read the incoming messages from the Mediterranean ships, and indeed from ships in many other parts of the world.  The message sequence is completed with the Buntings delivering the signal to the Boss {C-in-C}. A team effort and an effort which the fleet could not survive or function without. Well done the TEAM of Sparkers, Buntings and Greenies. This album SALUTES that TEAM in MALTA throughout the years from pre WW1 to just before we left Malta. 

I had "sealed" this photograph album in the belief that few would be interested today in the subject matter, which means that I cannot add subsequent photographs to the album below, but I can add to the page. Today {31st August 2005}, I received a kind email from Kevin O'Carroll, a submariner currently serving in Faslane who sent me a photograph of his father Lieutenant Commander Barney [the "Bastard"] O'Carroll Royal Navy -and subsequently a Commander R.N. shortly before retiring - as the OIC [Officer in Charge] of Rinella W/T in 1972, sat amongst his staff at the Radio Station. Thank you Kevin.

Kevin has found some more of the wonderful photographs and these are included here below. They are from left to right of Zebbug 1962, Kranji W/T Singapore and Flowerdown Hampshire UK.  

Kevin has been at it again {September 28th 2006}, but this time he has turned-up three more photographs of R.N. W/T Zebbug.  He says the following "

     Now, in February 2007, Kevin has sent me a super photograph of the main gates to Kranji W/T Station Singapore.  He believes it dates from 1968 on the occasion of Captain Garson RN., leaving Singapore

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