User:POMEM

I was aboard HMS Rothesay when she commissioned at Yarrows yard, Scotstoun, Glasgow, and we later went out the West Indies Station under SNOWI on her first commision. When we left Halifax, Nova Scotia, it was under orders to put into Ireland Island Bermuda to refuel, and chase after the pirated cruiser Santa Fe (or Santa Maria) where we chased her off Venezuela. In all my time in the Royal Navy, and in charge of the watch below, I have never known a ship steam at full power as often as she did. The part you have in about orders to lay off Cuba as far as I knew at the time didn`t exist, especially if I remember correctly; that was the following year over the Cuban crisis; and we were back in Portsmouth by then. Ex POM(E) (one of the Original Commisioning crew)