Gravesend peanut

[mbiggs]

Rather coincidental you where at the NSTC the same time as me, I was there from January 3rd 1980 untill April 1980. One of my memories was when we did rowing and the instructor who was from Ireland used to row us to the pub and stop of for a drink or two then start with the lesson.

Also the cook who was known as level level.

[alan heard]

hi im alan an engineer in glasgow i worked on the skeldergate wile docked in paisley

[John T Clark]

alan, it was the haircuts that sweeny cultivated our heads looked like peanuts goes back to the sixtys

[John T Clark]

his name was paddy magoran saild with him when the sea school closed he went back to sea on the mv falaba elder dempster line

[gray_marian]

Hi John, After reading #73 I looked at your profile. Nice collection of Ship photographs. Did you have a favourite?

[John T Clark]

yes my favourite ship was the mv dummura i completed a 369 days voyage we went all over the globe even got all me tax back baught a new honda cbx bike with it had a great crew all of us stayed over a year on it one guy his name was terry shell stayed 3 years beffore coming home with us what a party beffore we flew home

[higratuit]

Hi all thinking about the seaschool and wonderd why we were called PEANUTS by the locals has any body who went there know why and how far back does it go ?

nice

[cappy]

nice

when you had your medical before you went the quack if you remember groped your balls and asked you to cough ......well if you had big balls they sent you to the vindi but if you had small balls they sent you to gravesend and you were called peanuts .....regards cappy ex vindi boy

[Keith Tindell]

Maybe it could be said all the Vindi boys were a load of old balls then cappy !!, or perhaps they were all nuts!! lol KT

[cappy]

Maybe it could be said all the Vindi boys were a load of old balls then cappy !!, or perhaps they were all nuts!! lol KT

######cant speak for all of them but there could be some truth in that lol