Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3 LastLast
Results 11 to 20 of 24

Thread: Drunken sailors

  1. #11
    Join Date
    Nov 2010
    Location
    South Shields
    Posts
    5,203
    Thanks (Given)
    480
    Thanks (Received)
    6079
    Likes (Given)
    4096
    Likes (Received)
    14782

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Since 1968 I have never drunk vodka. After a night out in the dives of Liverpool's upper parliament Street drinking massive amounts of cheap vodka with the Spanish crew, returning to the ship on the old repair berth at Tranmere oil terminal, imwas so pizzed that I walked head on into every shelter on the jetty. Woke up next morning with not only the hangover from hell but also a face that looked like I had done 5 rounds with Henry Cooper. Put me off vodka for life but not from over indulgence in beer and gin and tonic on many occasions.
    Rgds
    J.A.
    P.s. it's 250 years since James cook set off in the Endeavour on a voyage of discovery to the South Seas

  2. Thanks Bob MacIntyre thanked for this post
  3. #12
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Bolton UK
    Posts
    15,004
    Thanks (Given)
    20832
    Thanks (Received)
    11089
    Likes (Given)
    30414
    Likes (Received)
    37116

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Vodka is a killer. a lot of it comes in from eastern Europe and contains Anti Freeze, It should be banned from sale.

    My son , a Consultant Hepatologist had two 16 year old girl patients, He had the task of telling two sets of parents that their daughters would die within three months, because their Livers had been destroyed and also the supporting organs had also been destroyed so impossible to have a Liver transplant even if they could find a donor.
    12 weeks later both girls were dead.
    They used to drink a bottle of vodka a day. but not any more.


    Also if you drink always have three or more days a week without alcohol. It gives your Liver time to recover, OR ELSE.!

    I stopped drinking five years ago, just have a glass of wine with dinner on a Saturday and Sunday.
    I do not miss it any more and feel a hell of a lot better.
    Cheers
    Brian.
    Last edited by Captain Kong; 10th September 2018 at 10:47 AM.

  4. Thanks Bob MacIntyre thanked for this post
  5. #13
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Location
    Merseyside
    Posts
    81
    Thanks (Given)
    19
    Thanks (Received)
    43
    Likes (Given)
    52
    Likes (Received)
    109

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Kong View Post
    When I was a 16 year old OS I wanted to go ashore with the old Sailors,
    I was told,....
    If you come ashore with us, , You drink like a Man, you Pay like a man and you ACT LIKE A MAN, or you get the Big Iron Fist.
    T was terrified but I did it.
    That was the only way to drink. Disciplined drinking.
    Obviously the RN guys have no idea how to drink. a load of pansies. who are an embarrassment to our once great nation.
    I got `wellied` out of my mind often enough but it never ever made me feel like a man. Quite the opposite in fact, it usually made me feel more like a fool than a man. Just one reason in explanation.....Opening my eyes to find myself lying flat out on a cold wet filthy coal wharf in the middle of the night in Rotterdam having been dumped there by an unscrupulous taxi driver. My new best `go-ashore` suit wet filthy and ruined and my wallet gone. I was found by a shipmate who himself was one of those who had put me in that taxi in the first place. We spent the rest of our time there looking out for that taxi but of course he`d stayed out of the area `til our ship sailed. I saw many other examples in many places, such as in BA where blokes actually showed up next morning wearing nothing but their underpants having been well and truly`rolled`. A common ocurrance in BA where at times even the port police were the robbers.

    No ! There is nothing at all manly about getting blind drunk. It is pretty stupid actually. Stupid, but yes we all did it, or most of us did !
    Trampshipman

  6. Thanks Doc Vernon, Bob MacIntyre thanked for this post
  7. #14
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    isle of wight
    Posts
    6,701
    Thanks (Given)
    2291
    Thanks (Received)
    5237
    Likes (Given)
    15143
    Likes (Received)
    24215

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    as was said many times, Jesus, that was a good run ashore, can't remember much, and spewed over my go ashore suit. Think we have all been there, its all part of growing up and being stupid.
    I went to see first in 1957, so a lot of the skippers would have been war time served, and then looked at us new youngsters, and shook their heads in disbelief, much like i do now, looking at todays youth !!!, i am often reminded of that by my wife !!, kt
    R689823

  8. #15
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Sunbury Victoria Australia
    Posts
    24,991
    Thanks (Given)
    8300
    Thanks (Received)
    10126
    Likes (Given)
    106523
    Likes (Received)
    45653

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    We all did stupid and at time amazing feats, brought on very often by the bravado of intoxication, and at times of pure stupidity.


    Full as a boot on the door step of the Navigators Den in Cape Town. Two mates found me there and took me back to the ship, put me in my bunk after having taken all my clothes off.


    They went back out and a couple of hours later arrived back at the Navigators to find me inside.

    How I got there, what happened we never did find out, but next morning found my shirt in the sink covered in washing powder but no water.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

    John Strange R737787
    World Traveller

  9. #16
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Blue Mountains NSW
    Posts
    24,237
    Thanks (Given)
    45047
    Thanks (Received)
    13126
    Likes (Given)
    52440
    Likes (Received)
    39396

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Must agree with all John as me too have found myself in some weird situations after a Nights binge mate!
    When looking back one can only say we were in a way blessed ,as many others would have been dead by now with the things we got up to!
    Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website

    R697530

  10. #17
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    W.A.
    Posts
    23,641
    Thanks (Given)
    12850
    Thanks (Received)
    13719
    Likes (Given)
    19100
    Likes (Received)
    76764

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Used to worry me in my very much early years when I couldn’t remember had had happened previously. Wasnt half pleased when I heard others had the same problems. JS
    Last edited by j.sabourn; 11th September 2018 at 08:14 AM.

  11. #18
    Join Date
    Nov 2017
    Location
    CHESTER LE STREET
    Posts
    2,326
    Thanks (Given)
    699
    Thanks (Received)
    1255
    Likes (Given)
    12937
    Likes (Received)
    8310

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    Quote Originally Posted by Keith Tindell View Post
    Well, i never, what has the world come to, never seen anything like it, lol, kt

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45463703
    Over reacting ham shanks.
    I got roughed up by SP in Colon, in an off limits (to them) bar, was in civvies but had a crew cut type hair cut, they only dropped me when I managed to fish out my British Seamans card, then they just dropped me on floor and walked out. Howver, to be fair, while in drydock in Sasebo we often got friendly lifts from the SP in their paddy wagon

  12. Thanks Bob MacIntyre thanked for this post
  13. #19
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Bolton UK
    Posts
    15,004
    Thanks (Given)
    20832
    Thanks (Received)
    11089
    Likes (Given)
    30414
    Likes (Received)
    37116

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    I always enjoyed wearing Khakis, until I went ashore in Jacksonville Florida, I was schooner rigged and called into JC Pennys Store,
    They had US Army uniforms, Khaki shirt and trousers, complete with badges of the Regiment on,
    I said Why the hadges the man said he had a lot of Vet customers who bought shirts of their old Regiment. So I bought a shirt and a pair of Keks. I went in town and into the Flamingo Bar, a beautiful Puerto Rican Barmaid, she poured real good Rum and Cokes, after a few hours I was drunk as a skunk, I fell out of the Bar and almost into arms of a Military Patrol. They chased me round the intersection , jumping over cars then I fell over and they both battered me with their night sticks. I`m a Limie I kept shouting, to no avail, `Yeah we heard that before Mac.` then another bang on the head, I was covered in blood, then a jeep turns up and I am thrown in and taken to a military base and thrown into a tank with another dozen fellows in a similar state. After an hour or so I am taken out for questioning and searched. `Goddamn this guy really is a Limie`, they found my pass off the Manchester Merchant.
    So they cleaned me up sponging my shirt as well, and took me to a hospital for stitches in my head. They put me in the jeep and took me back to the Flaminigo Bar, the barmaid was still there, `Give this guy anything he wants. `me `I want to go back to the ship my head is hurting, I just want to lie down.` `We are off duty in half an hour we will be back `.
    `What for?, to beat me up again`? The Barmaid treated me to a large Rum and so I spent a pleasant half hour chatting to her.
    They came back, paid for my drinks, picked me up and took me to a Restaraunt and a big steak, All I wanted was to go to bed, Eventually the took me back to the ship.
    I never wear Khaki Gear since then.
    Last edited by Captain Kong; 11th September 2018 at 02:40 PM.

  14. #20
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Bolton UK
    Posts
    15,004
    Thanks (Given)
    20832
    Thanks (Received)
    11089
    Likes (Given)
    30414
    Likes (Received)
    37116

    Default Re: Drunken sailors

    I was on Cunard`s `PARTHIA` in Boston, now Dont do this in the States,
    We tied up outside the city in a place called Maverick. Not a lot there just a couple of bars, we took a subway to Boston City centre but it was very quiet, not a bit like New York. We came back to Maverick and had a few drinks there.
    Six of us were staggering back to the ship through the dock area. It was quite a way so we stopped for a relief against the wall of a cargo warehouse. The six of us were stood in a line with it all hanging out when searchlights lit us all up, and a loud haler shouted `FREEZE, DON`T MOVE OR WE SHOOT, POLICE. HANDS ON THE WALL AND SPREAD `EM`.
    We froze, Kinnell, with hands on the wall all with our nudgers still hanging out. I think the whole of the Boston Police Department were there behind us.
    The cops came over to us and frisked us for weapons and tuned us around, we were blinded by the search lights. `And put those away` the Cop said pointing his night stick at our nudgers. We zipped up quick.
    We are Limies, we kept saying ,but didn`t make any difference.
    One at a time they took us to a Patrol car, `Hands on the hood and spread `em`. Geof went first, a big black Cop towered over him, `Where ya from``, Geof said `The Isle of Wight`, the Cop hit him over the head with his club, "AARRWWGGHH", said Geof, as a large lump appeared on his head. The big black Cop said `Ya trying to be funny wise guy.`. `No` said Geof, `I am from the Isle of W-I-G-H-T not W-H-I-T-E. its in England`.
    They went through all our pockets and found our US Immigration Passes.
    A bunch of Limies off the Parthia, eh. So we got a Police escort back to the ship to make sure we got on board. The cops who were taking us back told us they had a stake out on that Warehouse as they had a tip off that it was going to be raided and we had ruined it. They were not amused.
    We sailed the following day bound for Liverpool.
    Last edited by Captain Kong; 11th September 2018 at 02:41 PM.

  15. Thanks Bob MacIntyre thanked for this post
Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3 LastLast

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •