Bonus: 'Piggy' Trotter and bomb disposal

Battleground

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Graham 'Piggy' Trotter recounts his time as a Navy Clearance Driver during the campaign, including the heart-stopping de-fusing of a thousand pound bomb from RFA Sir Lancelot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of Battleground the Falklands War with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.
0:20.6	Today we're going to play an extended interview with
0:23.0	Graham Piggy Trotter, who was born and brought up in Leicester before he ran away to sea at the age of 15.
0:29.7	It was, he told me, the best decision I ever made. Fast forward from that time 16 years to 1982,
0:37.8	and Piggy was second in command of the Royal Navy's Fleet Clearance Diving Team 3
0:42.4	when it was deployed to the Falklands.
0:48.6	We actually flew.
0:50.2	We put all our stuff in a C-130,
0:53.3	flew to ascension, and then loaded it all on one of the...
1:00.0	Auxiliary ships.
1:02.0	The auxiliary ships, yeah.
1:03.1	Do you remember which one it was?
1:04.6	Yeah, it's a bedavir.
1:05.8	It's a bed of it.
1:06.6	It's a bed of it.
1:07.8	Okay.
1:09.4	Was that similar to the Galaad and the, and the Tristram?
1:13.5	Exactly the same. Yeah, exactly the same. Yeah, I think there were maybe four of those, weren't there,
1:18.3	heading down there. We took the bomb off the Sir Galahad, the first time you got hit in San Carlos Water.
1:24.5	Mm-hmm. We took a bomb off, I took a bomb off the Salancelot.
1:28.7	So those two, the Benevere and the Tristam, yeah, I think it was for.
1:32.3	Yeah.
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