Two instructors were Ch, ME Rusty Steele and Chief Mech Dinger Bell, great guys. I think at one stage you could go to Gnges from 12 years old (not certain about this). Would not have missed it for the world!!!! Most had signed on for 9 years (which didn't include the time served before the age of 18). Mastering all the usages of 'flag captain' from sentence examples published by news publications. HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, [1] constructed from teak. So please check. Picture Information. I had occasion to spend a week there under observation after our bullying seamanship instructor (cant recall his name) hit me on the head after I had complained of suffering from a really bad headeache. It was over near Faith, Hope & Charity. Nelly Nelson, I called him Admiral, he called me Captain, a Comms rating my best mate, we used to climb the mast and have a fag at weekends, if we had one, who I later served on the Diana with, Hygiene Howell, the Moir twins, Jeff Manning, and a lad called Mannion who dissappeared one day, we were told he had commited suicide (Ganges did that to some lads), Phil Tarrant, Londoner, who never ceased to make me laugh Aide Hibbert nuff said, well thats about it, except does anyone remember the chocolate bar machine in the Long Covered way, it used to spew out its bars with a little fiddling, used to pay for my fags.