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Life on the Ocean Wave, 1977

It was a taste of the ‘life on the ocean wave’ in October 1977 for the wife of Blantyre born sailor John McCarroll. Denise McCarroll joined her husband on his ship HMS Gurkha, during an open day for sailors’ families in the firth of Forth. John (22), was a Marine Engineering Mechanic 1st Class and […]