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    I certainly am not disputing any of what you post ,would just like to clarify (actually ask) about Tommy Steele.
    I recall a long time ago we did have a discussion on him,cannot now find that Thread but it was very old!
    Anyhow I have again searched the Internet,and for the life of me cannot find anywhere that says he was with the Winchester Castle. There is his Blog that has him with Cunard in the 50's ,don't think he was at Sea too long.?
    However going back to the Thread I am on about,i do also recall that (I think) that he was mentioned as being with the UCL at some time??
    I have also looked at the NA at Kew and there is no record of him where we find most other Seamans Records! I looked under his real name as well,as I am sure that would have been the name he had to use on joining the MN.
    As said Lew this is purely asking a question. Possibly there may be others who could clarify ??
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    Real Name: Thomas Hicks
    Birth Date: 17th December 1936
    Birth Place: London

    Steele worked in various jobs, including a brief period as a merchant seaman
    When on a ship Steele was serving on docked in Norfolk Virginia USA, he heard
    Buddy Holly
    and fell in love with rock and roll,
    It was, of course, while plying his trade as a young merchant seaman on the Cunard liners that a teenage Tommy first heard rock ‘n’ roll in its homeland of America, being captivated by Buddy Holly when he saw him on stage in Virginia, and it was on board ship that he was taught to play the guitar by Mauritania waiter and fellow ‘Cunard Yank’ Dick Campion.

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    ##didnt tommy steele have a brother at the vindi .....or was it tommy steele himself ....i know there were one or two from the vindi ended up in films or tele etc but then it was 6o plus years since i was there....cappy

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    Cappy, i went to gravesend sea school, and it was claimed he attended there, but who knows. I sailed with another guy on a Ellerman boat, when i say sailed, we signed on and he was a brilliant guitarist and singer, after 3 days he signed back off as he had managed to get a job in the music business, i cannot remember his name, so will never know if he made it, kt

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    This article here has got him on the Queen of Bermuda, think he's the scarlet pimpernel, kt

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    Wasnt Tommy Steele was it Keith ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith Tindell View Post
    Cappy, i went to gravesend sea school, and it was claimed he attended there, but who knows. I sailed with another guy on a Ellerman boat, when i say sailed, we signed on and he was a brilliant guitarist and singer, after 3 days he signed back off as he had managed to get a job in the music business, i cannot remember his name, so will never know if he made it, kt

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    This article here has got him on the Queen of Bermuda, think he's the scarlet pimpernel, kt

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    Tommy Steele did this sculpture of Eleanor Rigby which sits on a seat in Liverpool.Inside he placed some items.
    A four leaf clover representing nature.
    A page of the Bible representing Spiritual Matters.
    A football sock representing Leisure.
    A Dandy and Beano comic representing Comedy.
    Four sonnets representing Romance.
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    This is the only post i can find that names all four of the ships he served on, in his profile he was in collision with another ship which he was on and two people died. Someone on here may recall the ship and incident, kt

    Former teen idol Tommy Steele honours retired mariners at Tower Hamlets charity’s 170th anniversary | Latest Barking and Dagenham News - Barking and Dagenham Post

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    My apologies, i now see that this post was from an enquiry into a person who served in the war, and like most posts , wanders off track, kt
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith Tindell View Post
    This is the only post i can find that names all four of the ships he served on, in his profile he was in collision with another ship which he was on and two people died. Someone on here may recall the ship and incident, kt

    Former teen idol Tommy Steele honours retired mariners at Tower Hamlets charity’s 170th anniversary | Latest Barking and Dagenham News - Barking and Dagenham Post

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    My apologies, i now see that this post was from an enquiry into a person who served in the war, and like most posts , wanders off track, kt
    ##yes keith it does happen so easily ...im sure no harm will come of it ......

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    The Green Goddess the Caronia used to do it's annual lay up in the Gladstone Graving Dock I was having a pint in the Royal just along from the Caradoc somebody came in and said Tommy Steele was down by the Gladstone gate looking at the Caronia as it was one of his old ships.Maybe he was playing the Liverpool Empire at the time.
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    He had a Brother named Colin!
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