Kate sat at the helm of hammersley. She never expected to be CO of a patrol boat, she at the start of her navy carrier would have loved to be the co of one of the RAN's friggets or air craft carries. She loved the big ships and to have a large crew under her command was once her dream. That was before she met mike.
He had changed her mind, and made her fall in love with the patrol boats. It meant that she could spend time at home, with her small family. Well not that small. She had some how gained a large number of brothers and sisters ( her crew and former crew,)
"Um how long till we reach port?" she asked her navigator( who could never be as good as nikki, her best friend and the former navigator of hammersley.)
" about 3 hours ma'am," he replied
Grabbing the ships internal tannoy she put the call out
" this is your captain speaking , all ships company who are not on watch are to make the ship ready for Dutchy's surprise proposal to bird. That is all," she said before replacing the phone.
Looking over at Dutchy, she smiled knowing that bird would accept but this would make it special for them Oh and royally piss of knocker, which was a bonus. Commander white or knocker to the RAN sailors and some of the officers had tried everything to come between herself and mike.
To finish of the plan Kate, sent a text to bird asking her to meet the ship at the dock as she had something important to tell her.
OK, what time is the ship pulling up in port?
We should be there in 3 hours.
Kate excused her self from the bridge to make sure her smarts were ready and to make sure mike would be there with the video camera and to keep commander white at bay.
"Mike can you put hammersly down for scheduled maintenance. Oh and make sure you are on the quay with the video camera,I what to make this special for Dylan"
" the ships all ready down for internal work on the Communion systems, it should be out of action for two weeks. That should give the crew time to recover from their hangovers. And the cameras all ready. I will see you in two hours." in the back ground Kate could hear her toddler daughter asking to speak to her and mike saying that mommy had to go and drive the ship. Kate hung up. Mike made a wonderful father. He took a shore posting so Kate could spread her wings