The Hammersley's Story
HMAS Hammersley, Armidale Class Patrol Boat.
Naval officers came and went from this naval patrol boat, but the Hammersley had remained the same, more or less over the years. But as the saying goes "If these walls could talk", but if they could, the interesting stories that the Hammersley would tell.
Not just the stories of the general day to day operations, the boarding's, attacks, the frustrating endless searches for people who had fallen overboard in storms, discussions over meals, strong coffee, the endless paperwork that had to be filled in after each boarding or the endless tasks that occupied the sailors aboard the Hammersley. That was pretty straight forward, some days dull, others exciting, but nothing was ever the same.
But the stories of some of the sailors, for instance, Lieutenant Commander Mike Flynn and Lieutenant Kate McGregor, the brilliant duo of the Hammersley crew, was different. Mike and Kate worked brilliantly in each other's company, bantering and flirting, but never anything more; well not that anyone else knew.
Except for the Hammersley. She was the only one who would ever know their secret that they thought they had buried 5 years before...
Until now.