Originally Posted by
David John Foy
My Gravesend Sea School History
By David Foy
October 24th 1978 was the day that I set off from my home here in Ipswich Suffolk, and make my way down to Gravesend in Kent To start a new life in the British Merchant Navy. I started to think am I never going to get through this! My Father seemed more worried than anybody else did, Surprising really considering him and I had already spent time away from home on a Warship of Her Majesty’s Navy which in my mind was far more worrying than anything that I have ever done before.
After leaving the Persian Gulf we went back to Europe discharged our cargo then back to the Gulf where I paid off on 10th July 1978. The Lanisites at a place called Ras Al kymah then onto Jeddah to fly out from Dubai the next Day: