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    Remember one mission, cant recall the name or the place.
    Went to a dance there. Lots of girls.
    I was getting on well with one of them.
    Thought I was in for the night.
    The dance ended. Then a bus pulled up outside and all the girls got on and away they all went.
    Recall going down to the local bar strip.
    So it wasn't a wasted night after all.

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    You were on a loser there Den at least the first part of the night should have called it " Mission Impossible". Cheers JS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis McColl View Post
    #6 Spitting feathers here, just did a post Ref, missions and my internet connection dipped out.
    . Be good to meet up with yourself & Terry and any other scousers for a beer and a chat.
    Lew
    A bit like Sarnecki and Botlek stores in Rotterdam, mini bus to shop and back, but you could nick off into town from there, back the same way.
    Argos are missing a treat if they did the same and started a duty free department.
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    The mission is always my last port of call when on the way home of a sunday after a few beers with the lads.anyway just had an interesting experience,or conversation I may say.Called into the mission for a beer and there sitting there was a nun,good afternoon sister said I and I was invited to sit at her table by one of the volunteers.She was an Anglican Nun but at one time had belonged to a Catholic Order.I mentioned that I was an ex seamen she replied that she had been at sea herself.She went to the catering college in Liverpool and sailed as asst.stwd on the Bay boats,signed on as GP she said.I had never heard of the Bay boats.When she said that she sailed with P&O as a stewardess I thought that she had been on the liners but apparently these Bay boats are container ships.She had to go so the conversation was cut short but she hopes to see me next week when she will bring her Discharge Book in.Anybody on here who sailed on the Bay boats she rattled the names off of the ones she sailed on I know that the Jarvis Bay was one of them she mentioned.
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    Strange and interesting world Jim, the only port that i used the flying tab- nab on a regular basis was Naples when it was a regular port for me, kt

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    the Bay boats were OCL a joint venture 1965 - 1986 B&C , Furness Withy , Ocean Steamships and P&O , taken over by P&O They had 6 ships , green hull and funnel , Encounter , Tokyo , Mairangi , Resolution , and Liverpool BAY
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    OCL ships I remember are Encounter Bay, Jervis Bay , Flinders Bay, Discovery Bay, Providence Bay, Morton Bay, Botany Bay they were the first generation and designed in house by Blue Funnel ?
    Then there were second generation Liverpool Bay, Cardigan Bay,Tokyo Bay, Kawloon Bay, Osaka Bay.
    Resolution Bay was much later. The above ships were when Ocean Fleets still had an interest in OCL.
    There is something lurking at the back of my mind that one of the early bay boats was a total constructive loss due to fire? It may have been the Jervis Bay or the Flinders Bay, not 100% sure butttttt!!!!

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    Jim,

    I was in what I thought was the flying tab nabs just a street or two away from where the Irish ferry, Ulster Prince used to tie up. This was in the mid sixties. Was it the tab nabs or some other seafarers establishment?

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    Jim, the Mission bus here in port Melbourne picks them up from the ship and takes them back. But it will only go between ship and Mission, if the seamen want to go anywhere else they have to take public transport or a taxi.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Hi All.
    When I lived in Sydney and we held our Vindi reunions we held them in various pubs; until we joined forces with the Australian MN group, about two hundred used to have dinner together in an RSL Club in Flemington and the Nun that conducted the service before we ate came from the Stella Maris, I'm sure she had been at the Stella Maris when I was still going to sea , she was old but didn't look it, she was such a marvelous person. both the Flying Angel and the Stella Maris had great dances.
    Cheers Des

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