A group of HMS Diana Association members are here for their Malta re-union, marking around half a century since they were on the British destroyer.
The battleship was based here at the time.
The 21 members who, together with their wives, are staying at the Santana Hotel in Qawra met last Saturday between 11 a.m. and noon for Up Spirits at the Diana Pub, which lies close to the hotel.
At the pub, they reminisced about the good old times proudly showing black and white photographs and cuttings from The Times of Malta of the time they were on HMS Diana when most of them joined the navy as boys aged 16.
The men hail from Britain, Northern Ireland, the Scilly islands and Australia.
Bob Pinfield who, together with his wife Olive, is a frequent visitor to the island said: "We all have a great love for Malta as most of us grew from boys to men here".
At the Diana Pub as part of the re-union, the men, together with their better halfs, re-enacted the Up Spirits rum issue that was held daily on board British men-of-war at 11.50 a.m.
Up Spirits was the time when the men gathered to down their daily tot of dark rum, which was meant to fortify their spirit against adversaries.
The ceremony was quite authentic with a whistle blown to tell the men to prepare themselves for their drink. The men at the Malta re-union served on the HMS Diana either between 1954-1955 or between 1957-58.
In Britain, the Diana is still very much in the news over its 1956 trip to the Monte Bello islands, which lie about 200 miles off Australia's western coast.
The survivors are asking for compensation for what they went through without their prior knowledge.
After stopping at Malta and Singapore, HMS Diana sailed to the Indian Ocean. There she steamed through the cloud of a nuclear explosion, to test the impact such a devastating blast would have on British servicemen.
The Royal Navy - at that time the Cold War was on most people's mind - believed a war with the Soviet Union was on the cards.
Sean Rayment, writing in the Sunday Telegraph of January 6, 2008 wrote: "In a unique but ultimately lethal experiment, the ship would be ordered to steam through a radioactive cloud. For protection the crew were issued only with Polaroid glasses, overshoes and face masks.
"The results were catastrophic. Within weeks of the nuclear tests, several of the ship's company had fallen ill. Some lost their teeth, while others lost hair - all classic signs of poisoning by radioactive material.
A Daring Class destroyer built at Yarrow & Co, HMS Diana was passed on to the Royal Navy on March 9, 1954.
She was sold to the Peruvian navy in 1969.