A game of two halves

[cappy]

Same here, before joining my last ship in C.P. With a young family didn't fancy that so took redundancy on last day of march and joined Stolt on 1st April, staying there for 17 years before having to give up for medical reasons. All in all 41 years at sea and like everyone else, given the choice would jump at it again, not only for the runs but also for the chance to have met, sailed with and made friends of, some truly remarkable people from a number of nationalities.
Rgds
J.A.

#####37 million profit john but what laid out to get that ...the only reason it was sold because the capital could make more income invested elswhere...thats life if no one invests no one gets a profit ...no profit no jobs...regards cappy

[happy daze john in oz]

Look at any sea or ocean then and you would see s hip at some time.
Now it is a very rare event to see any at all.
In places such as Singapore you will see plenty either waiting to berth or sailing.
But once out on the ocean they all vanish.

[j.sabourn]

A lot of the tonnage you see anchored at either the eastern or western anchorage John. Is laid up tonnage waiting for charters . We used to call them Singapore’s graveyard for ships. I did 3 months on one at the western anchorage once. She was still there when I left , this would of been about 1999. JS

[Tony Taylor]

A lot of the tonnage you see anchored at either the eastern or western anchorage John. Is laid up tonnage waiting for charters . We used to call them Singapore’s graveyard for ships. I did 3 months on one at the western anchorage once. She was still there when I left , this would of been about 1999. JS

did they still have the milk girls by then?

[j.sabourn]

They were there 40 years before that. It’s all pasteurised now. JS

[Tony Taylor]

They were there 40 years before that. It’s all pasteurised now. JS

The milk, or the girls?

[j.sabourn]

Both ! JS

[John Arton]

I know some years after i tied up ashore for good, being on the ferry from the Island to Southampton, and there was a large ship laid up there, now i think its name was Bramah Endeavour, but i am unable to find it on the net, but later was told she was towed out into the Atlantic and sunk. But as said, cannot find anything on this, she was tied up in Southampton for months. I remember thinking then how lucky i was to have left when i did, kt

Keith
It was the Burmah Endeavour, I sailed with a captain who had taken it out of layup in Southampton.
Rgds
J.A.
The Burmah Endeavour

[happy daze john in oz]

Well the latest from our opposition leader here in Oz.
The Maratine union have been on his back and he is proposing to start a new Australian Merchant Navy.

He said such a navy would take so many trucks off the roads???????????? W have only three major ports here and as far as I know none of the ships that berth here go up the roads.
He then went on to show how many ships other countries have and how they make a profit.

What he failed to mention is the fact that those countries have crews from other countries such as Phillipines, Indonesia and other Asian nations and the rate of pay is lower.


One import company said that using Australian seamen on such ships would add at least 15% to the cost f all goods brought into the country.

But of course the opposition leader is a poli, and not a bright one!

[robpage]

Having gone to cross channel ferries in 1975 just doing sure that I was home for an impending birth I left them in 1986 and I think that by then it was all over . And although I have no experience of it I think making all the certificates in International homogenisation of all became ridiculous I have heard and to be honest only anecdotally of several occasions of certificates being purchased without examination and sea time which to buy mind is an absolute disaster I think we had the world best system and the best qualified men