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    Ship Vasari; Official number: 127974

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    Vessel Official number Port of registry and details Source
    CARLO 143279 Hull, 1921, Steam MNL, 1930
    Hull, 1921, Steam MNL, 1940
    LAS PALMAS 143279 London, 1919, Steam
    Vessel Official number Port of registry and details Source
    THURSO 144022 Hull, 1919, Steam

    These are three other of his Ships
    London, 1919, Steam
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    SS Thurso


    Las Palmas (1) 1911 1919 seized by The Shipping Controller, London, 1921 sold to Ellerman Wilson Line renamed Carlo. 1,740
    Cannot locate Pic of her sorry
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    Well Gemma

    Hope this clears a lot up for you and your dear Mum
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    Doc, you have been busy! Thank you so much, it's great to see some pictures! Really appreciate all the effort, I feel like I've made a bit more of a connection, going from having really known nothing. Unfortunately my mum and her sister can't place when he left the MN, but mum did say she thinks most of his brothers were also seafarers - I found CR1/CR2 for his brother Septimus, also on the Port Napier (they kindly wrote the name on his, lol!)

    Will have to see if I can get hold of the other docs from the archive, would be amazing if there was a photo of him, I've literally only ever seen two pics of him and he passed a few years before I was born

    He was busy when he came back from sea though, my mum had 11 siblings!!!

    And thank you for translating 'trimmer' for me, I'd have never managed to decode that!
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    Hi Gemma, as Vernon says Trimmer is in the Stokehold with the Firemen and Stokers.
    The Trimmer is usually a Trainee Fireman, he goes to the coal bunkers and shovels the coal into a wheel barrow and wheels it to the stokehold and dumps it just by the door of the furnace so the Fireman/ Stoker shovels it into the Fires, Very hard physical work, and the Fireman must NEVER run short of coal or else........ Then when he is experienced he than becomes a Fireman/ Stoker, and a little pay rise.
    I did that job once, but Fireman/Trimmer. doing both jobs at the same time. A very tough job in the heat of the Furnaces , but a good experience.
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    Hello Gemma
    If you apply for his CRS10 that will have a Mugshot (Initial Pic) of him,plus a lot more info!
    According to the CR2 he seems to have left in 1931 ?
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    Gemma, thanks so far to all involved, a pretty good response. It is important that you update when possible. I am like others am a little busy at the mo but, will look at all again ASAP.

    Keith.

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