Cooking on a miniature submarine
Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 1:03 pm
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!
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!