MAA Peter A Smeeton
Level/ Rank / Title
MAA
First Name
Peter A
Surname
Smeeton
Nickname
Date Served
1948 – 1971
Joined RB / RNP
1958
Decorations / Awards
Crossed the Bar
27 December 2014
Ships/ Establishments/Base/Command HQ
Service History: RPO HMS Collingwood. MAA.
With gratitude for your service and friendship as a fellow member of the Regulating Branch and Royal Navy Police Association and Royal Navy Police.
Rest in eternal peace. Fair winds and following seas.
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Carried forward: Pete and I served together as RPO’s in Collingwood in 68/69. We were both awaiting promotion to MAA. I remember that Pete was promoted within a few weeks of his retirement. As I remember, he never served as a MAA, but got the MAA retirement pension.
I have not had any contact for over 40 years.
But, I do remember this:- Around 100 of those guys that wore buttons and lived in the Chief’s mess were on stand-by to be sent to London to assist in a docks strike.
I was the duty RPO on a Sunday afternoon, leave for these guy had been cancelled. Most of them married and lived ashore locally. They were not happy.
A signal arrived and I was contacted by the Commander to organise, to get them together for a talk and then transport them to London.
The transport side was easy to put into practise. BUT, these senior rates, had been drinking in the mess at lunchtime, were surly and somewhat mutinous.
I telephoned Pete, who lived locally and asked if he would “give me a hand”. Together, we mustered these guys, fell them in and got them into coaches etc.
The Commander was chuffed.
Pete was a good “oppo” – Phil Le Houx.