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6th March 2024,
11:47 AM
happy daze john in oz
started a thread
Remeber when
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General Member Discussion
IF YOU WERE BORN BETWEEN 1930 AND 1946, 99% of people born between 1930 and 1946 (GLOBALLY) are now dead. If you were born in this period, your...
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65 replies | 3770 view(s)
7th March 2024,
12:09 PM
Michael Black
started a thread
Legal tender
in
My Memoires and Other Interesting Things
Sorting out some old stuff in the loft and came across these in an old book. Wonder if I could still use them, don't know how I managed to leave the...
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44 replies | 1819 view(s)
26th March 2024,
08:26 AM
J Gowers
started a thread
Bridge destroyed by a containership
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Merchant Navy General Postings
Just saw on the news a containership has hit a bridge near Baltimore and destroyed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMDoToEo4k
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40 replies | 840 view(s)
10th March 2024,
05:04 PM
Mo Docherty
started a thread
uk civil war
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
If we have civil war we aint got military to stop it fellas,we better respect people with more dignity,the (45) will be nothing compared to this
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34 replies | 1361 view(s)
17th March 2024,
11:52 AM
James Curry
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PM's & First ministers
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Well now we have all 5 nations that make up these Islands being run by the following UK PM Rishi Sunack. Scotland,1st Minister Humza Yousaf....
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32 replies | 993 view(s)
7th March 2024,
12:08 PM
John Arton
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Seafarers killed in rocket attack on merchant ship
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Merchant Navy General Postings
https://gcaptain.com/houthi-attacks-turn-deadly-true-confidence/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-fb57cbf3a8-139878665&mc_cid=fb57cbf3a8&mc_eid=3b737...
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21 replies | 1652 view(s)
7th March 2024,
06:17 PM
vic mcclymont
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Electric cars
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An online news article about Jaguar I Pace electric cars. A guy was driving his I Pace car on the M 62, suddenly the battery alarm sounded,...
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24 replies | 1078 view(s)
20th March 2024,
01:03 PM
John Arton
started a thread
P&O and Irish ferries in trouble
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Merchant Navy General Postings
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-18/p-and-o-ferries-paying-crew-under-5-an-hour-after-government-pledged-minimum-wage P&O and Irish ferries are in...
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22 replies | 925 view(s)
22nd March 2024,
02:22 AM
j.sabourn
started a thread
Deck Certification
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Merchant Navy General Postings
An ambiguous question , anyone know without looking up the present situation re the Title in Question . All my certificates of worth are British and...
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18 replies | 792 view(s)
13th March 2024,
12:04 AM
j.sabourn
started a thread
Interest Rates
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
Here in Australia all one hears about is the poor struggling mortage payer and how it affects them. To my mind 1. They should borrow money that they...
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19 replies | 503 view(s)
29th February 2024,
05:40 AM
happy daze john in oz
started a thread
What spy
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
It was announced here in Oz today that we have or did have a spy in the gov. According to our spy agency an ex poli was acting as a spy for another...
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11 replies | 1275 view(s)
16th March 2024,
08:48 AM
John Pruden
started a thread
just called in
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Merchant Navy General Postings
the death of my brother sam realy knocked me for six 3 days after his funeral his wife was found dead in bed her funeral is 20th this month the old...
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12 replies | 568 view(s)
20th March 2024,
07:35 PM
vic mcclymont
started a thread
Mersey Tidal Array
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Plans are being developed for a tidal array on the Mersey. The development would the capability to develop electrical energy for 1m homes. There...
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13 replies | 516 view(s)
17th March 2024,
02:31 PM
Mo Docherty
started a thread
My best run ashore ever fellas
in
My Memoires and Other Interesting Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XUNpHsCxeE
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14 replies | 549 view(s)
Yesterday,
06:06 AM
j.sabourn
started a thread
There’s always one instigator.
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Jokes Page
Three old guys are out walking . The first one says, “ Windy , isn’t it .” The second guy says, “ No, it’s Thursday !” The third guy says, “ So am...
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13 replies | 217 view(s)
19th March 2024,
11:56 AM
John Arton
started a thread
Now this is going to be very expensive
in
Merchant Navy General Postings
https://gcaptain.com/caught-on-camera-containership-ym-witness-takes-out-cranes-at-turkish-port/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-29a61e5f51-13987866...
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11 replies | 494 view(s)
26th March 2024,
10:02 AM
Fouro
started a thread
Memories.
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
Looking at Charles Spencer being interviewed on itv news today brought me back to the time I had to go to Althorp. May I ask, how many members on...
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12 replies | 278 view(s)
Yesterday,
05:19 AM
happy daze john in oz
started a thread
No beer here
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
Saw what I thought was a rather disturbing article on the net today, concerns the local pubs. The article went onto say it is now getting too...
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13 replies | 187 view(s)
13th March 2024,
05:40 AM
happy daze john in oz
started a thread
Return to maker
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
Not sure if you have a bottle deposit scheme in UK but we have one here in all states./ Must admit though Victoria was the last state to introduce...
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9 replies | 221 view(s)
18th March 2024,
02:55 PM
Mike Hall
started a thread
Blue Funnel
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Ask the Forum
HI, I have been uploading plans of Blue Funnel ships. I have noticed that the ones i have uploaded have passenger accommadation. Does that mean...
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7 replies | 412 view(s)
1st March 2024,
05:06 PM
Derek Rigby
started a thread
Interesting trip
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My Travels
In 1956 my ship, Caltex Dublin, went to Sumatra to take on Minas crude. This involved a passage along part of the Siak River from the Panjang Strait....
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0 replies | 1574 view(s)
18th March 2024,
05:11 PM
Michael Black
started a thread
The exiles: secretly deported
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Merchant Navy General Postings
Program on sky channel 174 tonight 9.05pm about Asian seamen who served in the British merchant navy during the WW1 who'd settled in Liverpool and...
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6 replies | 308 view(s)
1st March 2024,
12:08 AM
James Curry
started a thread
Facts
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Jokes Page
Irish logic,
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5 replies | 697 view(s)
27th March 2024,
09:46 AM
Vince Cohen
started a thread
Uniform
in
Merchant Navy General Postings
Does anyone know what this uniform is Cheers
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6 replies | 144 view(s)
26th March 2024,
05:53 AM
happy daze john in oz
started a thread
There she blows
in
Merchant Navy General Postings
Just off the south coast near Sheernes lies the SS Richard Mongomery. She sank way back in 1944 with some 1400 tons of explosives on board. ...
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7 replies | 181 view(s)
15th March 2024,
04:02 PM
Rodney Mills
started a thread
Really Tall Tales
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
This is my entry to start this off, unless nothing much happened in your sea life, and you did your time with blinkers on and sailing in dry dock you...
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4 replies | 216 view(s)
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