Re: My time in Australia before I jumped ship.
Saloon cutlery brings to mind another story.
On the Windsor in Cape Town up coast a winger tourist who we named the Maltese Falcon was arrested after shooting dead a drug dealer.
He was later hanged in Pretoria prison, but that is another story.
However the Southampton Police went to the home of his sister and brother in law to advise them of his arrest.
They were invited inside and offered tea or coffee as they informed the sister of the position her brother was in.
On return to the station one of the police mentioned to the saergent on duty how the china and silver ware used to supply them with beverages was all B&C stuff.
A few days later after a search warrant had been issued the house, which ran a B&B service was searched.
Not just silver and china but sheets, towels the lot, all from UCL.
Obviously at the end of each voyage he would 'remove' some items in need, it was reported that on a number of occasions he had worked by.
The brother in law and sister were charged and found guilty of possessing stolen goods.