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Today,
10:15 PM
J Gowers
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Not the Singers we knew.
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Swinging the Lamp
I spent six months there in 2010 as Tech Manager of a drilling rig which was in Kepple drydock had a great time here are a few photos from the top of...
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Today,
05:08 PM
James Curry
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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Most of these stabbings and shootings are either gang or drug related. Is there not or was recently a police officer shot dead some asshole and has...
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38 replies | 2657 view(s)
Today,
04:40 PM
john mc dermott
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joining age
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Merchant Navy General Postings
I was able to join at 15and a half through the official shipping federation channels in 1965.
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
11:30 AM
James Curry
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Not the Singers we knew.
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Swinging the Lamp
I always liked Singapore the old & the new. Dry docking in my later years I would always cover the nights so the young guys&girls could get up the...
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3 replies | 450 view(s)
Today,
10:48 AM
j.sabourn
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joining age
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Merchant Navy General Postings
#6 A mate of mine he was under 20 when he passed for 2 mate , just by a couple of months but had to get special permission to sit for second mate. He...
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
10:28 AM
Graham Payne
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Merchant Navy General Postings
Joined T.S.Indefatigable at 14yrs 6 months of age, left when I was 16 and sent to join "Oronsay as a Deck Boy. Had the 6 month remission so became...
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
08:31 AM
Johnny Kieran
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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Bit of an update on that one. It's locally claimed to be a drive by incident, most likely drug gang related. The only drugs you had around there in...
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38 replies | 2657 view(s)
Today,
08:26 AM
Johnny Kieran
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Merchant Navy General Postings
It was fifteen and a half for joining the Vindy.
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
08:15 AM
Johnny Kieran
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Nostalgia
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
The new cultures around here are being well established and handed down. Most of our shopping centres and the like, are like being in a foreign...
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3 replies | 302 view(s)
Today,
08:10 AM
Johnny Kieran
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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I'd be a bit nervous seeing some of our coppers with guns. On the odd occasion that we do actually see one in real life, they're usually wimpy...
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38 replies | 2657 view(s)
Today,
07:46 AM
Tony Taylor
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
They do that here on the fields, as recently as last week, they seem to wait until its a nice warm sunny day. The smell can choke you.
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25 replies | 5360 view(s)
Today,
05:56 AM
j.sabourn
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
An old boot a foot below the rhubarb was considered a marvel by the old wives when I was a boy. Maybe the distance of a foot was relative to the old...
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Today,
05:04 AM
happy daze john in oz
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Death of Innocence.
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The Palestine problem with HAMAS is the fact they are the gov of the day. Voted in by the populous, but did they at the time of voting all know just...
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72 replies | 5209 view(s)
Today,
04:56 AM
happy daze john in oz
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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Must be catching all the knives. Another one yesterday in the shopping center we use. Guy stole a knife from a shop then went on a spree. But...
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38 replies | 2657 view(s)
Today,
04:49 AM
happy daze john in oz
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
In Japan a few years ago, spotless all over now, flush from the toilet something to look forward to as well. But pig and cow along with sheep and...
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Today,
04:31 AM
happy daze john in oz
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Nostalgia
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Trivia and Interesting Stuff
From what I see of the younger ones now there will be no culture to hand down.
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3 replies | 302 view(s)
Today,
03:15 AM
j.sabourn
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joining age
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Merchant Navy General Postings
I sailed with one of those people who started off as the boy on a Thames barge. Think his father was the skipper , that was the usual manning of such...
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
01:22 AM
Des Taff Jenkins
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
Hi John. Don't know about that but we stopped delivering to the golf course after about twelve months to many complaints from the locals, but the...
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25 replies | 5360 view(s)
Today,
01:17 AM
j.sabourn
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
Did they call that affluent effluent Des ? JS.
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25 replies | 5360 view(s)
Today,
01:16 AM
Des Taff Jenkins
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joining age
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Merchant Navy General Postings
Hi Frank. It depended on how desperate the skipper was to sail, There are records of boys of 14 joining ships during the war, also on the Thames...
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7 replies | 315 view(s)
Today,
01:02 AM
j.sabourn
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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News Snippets
The guards are already there they call them Grey Nurses, so they have medical attention as well so shouldn’t complain. JS
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38 replies | 2657 view(s)
Today,
12:59 AM
Des Taff Jenkins
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Stabbing Attack in Sydney
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News Snippets
John. We send illegals to islands at great cost to the country why not these dogs, we have plenty of uninhabited islands wouldn't need guards just...
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Today,
12:52 AM
Des Taff Jenkins
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Women at sea
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Women at Sea and at Home
John. When I worked for the Sydney Water Board we used to fill tankers with effluent which was poured over a golf course in the Blue Mountains, also...
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Today,
12:46 AM
Des Taff Jenkins
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Death of Innocence.
in
News Snippets
John S The same was said about the University demonstrations over the war in Vietnam, I think only one man was convicted of war crimes, an...
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72 replies | 5209 view(s)
Today,
12:40 AM
j.sabourn
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joining age
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Merchant Navy General Postings
16 if referring to F.G. Articles. Below18 were considered a young person on the agreement The RN 15 and was classed as a boy seaman, as to actually...
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