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SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD Full Name James Harrison Discharge Book Number UK042814 Department Deck Your Rank/Rating AB Which Ships were you on and When 1979 - 1989 Ps Waverley MV Balmoral MV Southsea Notes: -.
Last edited by Jim harrison; 7th January 2019 at 02:47 PM.
Good morning James. I worked on the I. of W. ferries as a boy, and spent a lot of my time on the 'SOUTHSEA' and the other two diesels, (SHANKLIN and BRADING) If I remember rightly, the Brading caught fire whilst being scrapped at Portscreek, and the SHANKLIN was declared a total loss after she ran aground on the Welsh coast whilst on a cruise. Before that, (and I think it was again the SHANKLIN) she was was in collision with a cargo ship that was coming out of the Camber docks , and last of all, when she was entering the dock at Southampton, the wind caught her and blew onto the bow of one of the cross channel ferries tearing a large gash in the large ferries stem--but it was so funny, as a head popped out of a port-hole and a voice shouted down to us--OI, what the .... are you doing? Regards, Colin R684420
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