There never was anything like No. 8 Naval, and there can never be anything quite like it again. Let me give it a friendly motto :--
“GUTS and GUNS.”
It exists no more as an actual unit, but I hear it’s “Soul goes marching on” as “No. 208 Squadron, R.A.F.”; all good luck to it.
Cherrio, No. 8 Naval! If guns did occasionally refrain, your officers and men never failed.
Click here to read Petty Officer F D Hammond’s
account of life on ‘The Lower Deck’:
Captain Pinkney’s anecdote is an
excerpt from the book ‘Naval Eight’, which is
reviewed in the Bibliography at this link:
