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Originally Posted by Keith Tindell
Tre- is a place name element of Celtic origin meaning "hamlet, farmstead, estate", etc.
K.
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Originally Posted by Keith Tindell
Tre- is a place name element of Celtic origin meaning "hamlet, farmstead, estate", etc.
K.
###if i remember right keith they were called ducktails ...you were probably doing the same run as us capetown durban lourenco marques east londonand some other place .....we had no prob with the zulus but odd scrapes with the so called ducktails .....think i saw vernon there .......cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith Tindell
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Hi Cappy.
Was on the last tanker in Abadan when the Shah was overthrown, no one to let go so I went ashore to let go the ropes, was chased back aboard by a mad Arab with a knife , the crew were manning hoses so got clear, the captain maneuvered us around and off we went down the Shattel Arab?
Cheers Des
In Cape Town about 63, we had a winger by the name of Lucky.
So called as he had escaped injury during WW2 at the D Day Landings.
Walking along Adderly Street when some young Blacks came up behind him, no doubt with the idea of robbery, and stabbed him in the back.
Lucky for him there were a couple of local White guys who came to his recuse.
Not too badly injured but well worth the name he thought when considering what could have happened to him.
#### des do you rememnber the seamans place there with the swimming pool you could get beer but my ist drink was always the fresh milk .....they had perhaps 4 or 5 diferent crowds in at a time swedes krauts dutch it was a good night but you had to come back to your ship mob handed.....the same trouble now up the gulf .......basra was even worse we went with cement on a cargo ship ...couldnt go ashore .....the abadan tanker births were just as bad ......we picked up a dbs from yorks he had been in hospital there a crowd of them were following our crowd and one tried to pick pocket yarmie was his name ...well i have seen some men dropped in my time but yarmie swung round and i even thought i heard the arabs jaw break with the smash ...it was the best punch in my life i ever saw ....down the arab went out stone cold ......the following crowd then filtered away.......somehow we just took it all for granted.....but what a learning curve for life .....regards cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by Des Taff Jenkins
To true a real oldi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith Tindell
Took us 10 weeks to get back from Fremantle via the cape when suez was closed. Cannot say it was a hsppy ship we had two crew deaths and lots of pilfering of the general cargo to the gulf before going light ship to Fremantle for grain. Four or five crew were arrested when we got back to Southampton....the same day that Billy curly quiff arrived in the Uk.
Went to Cornwall a couple of years ago but none of the local....seafarers.....had heard of Trworlas in the local pub. Sorry I missed it..I have a good picture of the ship when it was blown in half and before the nee forward part was added and the engine converted to oil. Let me know if you want a copy of the picture.
I did 10 years as an R/O and since leaving around 1974 have only sailed deep sea in the past 4 years on the Qeens, Mary, Elizabeth and Victoria. More my style.
Hi Keith, Yes i have a photo of the Treworlas with bow section blown off, she certainly had an interesting life, i believe another member here was on her when she ran aground on a reef i believe in the Red sea area, and that was her final, she was a write off. I did find the village of Treworlas its on rose peninsular in Cornwall, its really a few houses and a village hut. You were obviously on her before my time in 1958, i was grand old rank of peggy, kt