This is a cute story about Marcel..
We were in Germany all staying in a Hotel for the ship building with a InterSub submarine as a hyperbaric lifeboat. JFD was of course there, as was Marcel. Me too. On check out from the hotel, I was alarmed because a large amount of drinks had been charged to my room. I thought I would be fired for this! So, I explained to JFD about all the drinks being charged to my room and that I had charged nothing at all and did not understand how it had happened. JFD said not to worry, Marcel was probably just playing a joke on me! Still, I was very worried about losing my job.
Just one fond memory of life with InterSub.
Pete
The photo is my first submarine, the USS Simon Bolivar SSBN 641. I was on it from launch in 1964 to 1967. A bit before InterSub...
-Thank you Pete !
Another story about our dear friend Marcel : One day, he decided to get married again and asked J.F. and I if we would accept to be his witnesses... J-F answered immediately : “Yes, but only once, not more !”... After the ceremony in Marseilles’ main townhall, some of you can remember the big party we had for him and his beautiful Heide in l’Estaques garden...”
Claudine Durand-Barsotti
Marcel was a much-loved and dear friend. One evening he asked me to cook a typical English dinner, so I fried up Spam fritters, with chips and peas and finished off the evening with 'spotted dick' - a typical English boarding school dish - suet and raisins and boiled in a bag! Needless to say, a good quantity of wine was consumed and the evening was a complete success - but from then on, we ate down town!
Pete! Here's my last submarine - 1973 - HMS Valiant - a nuclear powered hunter killer. We broke down on our way to the States and as we could not shut down the reactor, spent time in a Scottish Loch!