Sir, – TEARLESS makes interesting points which I hope someone in authority will answer. Usually the silver enhances the occasion but can occasionally be an embarrassment. The last ship to do the Beira Patrol in 1975 before Portuguese East Africa became Mozambique, and oil shipments to Rhodesia via Beira an impossibility, was HMS Salisbury. We had good connections with the city and our main drag was known as the A30. Amongst the family silver was a fine copper bowl that had been presented in the 1950s by Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. It seemed ungrateful that with this onboard we should have be…
