Whilst in the Royal Navy, I had a lot of dangerous experiences. This was one in 1975 whilst on exercise in the Indian Ocean:
An excerpt from the book "Running For Home"
Here I am an aircrew man in the Royal Navy and after some damage to the gearbox of our helicopter, the missile aiming scope was vibrating and I was unable to identify the large and menacing Russian Warship that lurked in the distance:
One day whilst in the air we were asked to identify a
large Russian warship that had appeared on the scene. I had previously been
trained in warship recognition and as we flew toward this magnificent ship I
could not identify it without getting too close unless I used the scope on
maximum magnification. Of course the vibration had not miraculously disappeared
and on maximum magnification it was all the more exaggerated. I could not
identify the ship and by this time we were flying perilously close. Of course,
she was bristling with all manner of weapons and I have no doubt that some of
them were locked on to us.
We broke off our course without identifying the ship.
Many years later I realised that it was the Leningrad, the Flagship of the
USSR. It was still the Cold War years and we had been in yet another dangerous
situation. Indeed, we must have come close to being shot down in peacetime.
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