Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
I still have my Overtime books, from the early 50s , which show all the ports and various jobs we did and extra comments on all the outstanding happenings and daft things we got up to just like a diary.
I never had any education, didn't learn to read and write until I was 11 years old at the end of the war, schools were closed in WW2 and then only as part timers when open, mornings one week and afternoons the next week. so it was easier to play hookey and go up on the moors to play up there, no one cared, then left school at 15, engineer apprentice for three months, sacked, Six months down the Coal Mine, never saw daylight. and three months in a cotton mill before going to sea., Then I was Happy, Loved it. the best life a lad could ever have, the best education a lad could ever have, and ended up with over 40 years at sea. Great life, some bad and sad times but a great life over all..
Cheers
Brian