Cooking on a miniature submarine

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Cooking on a miniature submarine

One of the problems for a hungry lad was arranging the odd feast and I remember trying, not very successfully, to heat up a can of baked beans on a candle at our camp on the top field. It was a part of our education which was not without benefit. There is an interesting report in the White Star old boys news from our intrepid submariner Richard Compton-Hall MBE on his first command on a midget submarine “The five compose the crew. They are completely inter-changeable apart from the captain. He, however, makes up for that by doing all the cooking – in a carpenter’s paint pot. No one is allowed to criticise the captain’s cooking. This is known as discipline”. Clearly someone who squeezed every penny from his parents’ investment in his education!