aye and filled apropiately lol
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aye and filled apropiately lol
The AB on the forrard falls let go of his fall before the after fall was released ....the vessel an old hains boat was still at about 6 or so knots .....the forrard end of the lifeboat swung round and crashed into the ships side ....the AB was injuredin the forrard falls ...the clinker planking gave way ...the boat started to fill with water.......the sight of the man overboard was lostduring this performance ......as the vessel slowed the man on the after falls managed to get the forrard falls back on and that boat was lifted ....the other lifeboat was swung out and lowered by now the vessel had stopped and all hands were trying to spot the man overboard.....no site of him.....so the debacle went on .....cappy
Boat drill - Always release the outboard gripes First!Quote:
Originally Posted by cappy
Remember doing fire drill at the Vindi, crawling along a very low tunnel with smoke from wet grass in there.
Had afew small lessons ashore at various establishments but nothing serious.
Yes Lewis, no doubt there were some under the weather at times but there is a difference between being a little under it to being fully over the top, something I never ever saw on duty.
In none of my posts did I mention anyone being over the top. To many people do not actually read what is being said!! I am sure I am also guilty of that at times. A lot of saints and sinners went to sea me thinks. Old saying only two types of people go to sea Liars and wa--ers.
it should be the way round Lewis ha haQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
#55 Lewis what were walkers doing at sea !!
My wife had a Walker, her uncle Leon Walker at sea. Chief Steward on the Canberra
#17 up until the 60s they were all dry ships I was on .The only official alcohol I ever saw was a tot of rum on a saturday night which the chief steward gave out with the bond being open. This was only if the master said it was ok. The bars came out to satisfy the moans and groans of those on board of the boredom of Long passages at sea and to try to retain people , however it had the opposite effect later as was used as an excuse to get rid of people when the industry was in surplus . The bars also went some way to curb cabin drinking when rationed beer was allowed on ships. Any drunk seamen I saw always did their drinking ashore and was only a minority amongst all the drunks already living ashore. The occasional alcoholic one did get at sea was few and far between but was rare to see him two trips running . JS
I joined the MN in September 1969 and stayed until 2013. I never sailed on any ship apart from Saudi flagged vessels that did not have a bar. Okay from 2003 onwards a lot of vessels started to go dry. It was I believe from 1986 that the D&A policy was being slowly implemented. Ships still had bars and Alcohol was still freely available, it all depended on who the master was and how skilful the individual that was running the bar could be by being economic with how he counted beers being consumed and by who. It was not unusual for shall we say the Filipino crew to be bribed to sell there beers to some of the pissheads who lived in the big house, another way was several cases of beer seemed to have been drank by shore side officials. There was always a way. But like everything there was always someone who would spoil it for everyone else. When I was duty engineer every third or fourth night I never drank. I did not notice that others would stick a beer down on my page and then tell me the next day they owed me a beer. It ended up in a row and I put a stop to it. The old man pulled me about drinking while duty engineer so I enlightened him in front of the guilty parties concerned. He believed me as I had been sailing with him for over 3 years as the top 6 always did back to back trips. Someone was foolish enough to ask what harm was it doing as I was not drinking on duty nights so why not use my page as the person was paying for those beers anyway. He just did not get it, why was I staying dry during my duty night. The oldman shut the bar for a week. Oh the moans and groans. There is always one.