(Memories written by members of Forces Reunited)
HMS Protector in 1956
Written by Arnold Hacking
Leaving Portsmouth for Gibraltar,clearing the Isle of Wight and running into a south wester,we had all had a good run the night before and were still full of woe.We rounded Ushant and somewhere in the Bay of Biscay we lost the steering engine,so it was hand steering until Gib,where we were at the end of mole,you felt you needed a pint or two by the time you had reached the Trocadero-then the long walk back,one step forward then two steps back and don't fallin the 'oggin.