Acastas sing 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates' at Fort Morgan in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Feb. 2017. Find out more about HMS Acasta and her crew on our website: www.hmsacasta.com
The song is great, but what really captures me is the whole aesthetic. Just a bunch of old men playing poker around in some bar lit only by lanterns. It really brings the whole song alive to just imagine a dockyard just outside there and these guys are just enjoying themselves before they set back out to sea again.
Everyone understands the meaning of friendship. But only the ones that have toiled many months (and years) at sea with each one depending on the other for survival understand the meaning of "Shipmates" .....USN 1964-'68.
This is like 1000th time I watch this vid! Always brilliant! Time at seas are best I know, and this sums up it pretty well. :) thank you guys, just waiting the longer sailing begin.