At 3pm, Conqueror's crew was called to action stations and the torpedo tubes were loaded.
Mr. Shepp's saxophone, not to mention his ballad singing, sounds doubly wistful against Mr. Rudd's action stations' battling.
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In the morning, in bed, I sometimes raise my fist and cry, "Action Stations!" — as Haddock did when he was startled awake from a doze.
"Late that morning … the captain announced to the crew that they had orders to sink the Belgrano and that after lunch they would be going to action stations".
The crew are called to action stations and a shot is fired, but the wind fails, the mist returns and the chase is abandoned.
Action stations: US-linked camps RAF Fylingdales (N Yorks) Set amid the bleak beauty of the North York Moors, this base is primarily there to give early warning of a ballistic-missile attack.
At Action Stations, housed in old Boathouse 6, pit your wits and daring against the might of the sea in a series of simulators and experiments: try commanding a warship, flying a helicopter, mastering the tides and battling the Royal Marines.
The navy, of course, has never faltered in its allegiance, by invoking Nelson's memory to stimulate recruits, to stiffen slackers, to steady all hands when action stations sound, to ensure its own continuing esprit de corps.
One person who has seen the image said: 'It was like the infantry going to war, or like they were going on a hiking holiday.' When one of the men was identified as Hussain, it was action stations.
