Vindicatrix

[Charlie Hannah]

Cappy as i said in earlier post must be getting weak used to only use on hand,no have too use two.

[j.sabourn]

#11... Are you boasting Alf. I wouldn't have room for two hands. Cheers John S.

[j.sabourn]

Des Jenkins... Des know your surname is owned by a great many Welshmen. However have just received a letter from a friend in NZ who was in the same company as me in the 50"s, has sent cuttings out of a newspaper of that era out of the Western Telegraph and Cymric which I assume is a Kiwi paper. It describes the loss of the Fernmoor on an unchartered reef in the South China Sea in 1954. At the time I was on the Avonmoor (one of Cappys ships) in South America and can remember hearing the news of. Their is a readout of the Radio Officer Gareth Llewellyn ex Fishguard Grammar school. Also a bloke who I knew and sailed with in later years a Roy Jenkins ( his initials are given as J.R.J Jenkins) of Hyfrydle, Aberporth. Don't suppose any relation, but you may have heard of. Heard all you Jenkins stick together. There was a crew of 40 and survivors numbered 40 so was no loss of life unless they had a few stowaways on board. Cheers John S. Jenkins was the 2mate. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

While at the Vindi did any of you hear the story about the cadet and the lifeboat? Not sure if it is true or just a story.
Apparently they were out in the canal on a life boat, this yong lad was a bit timid and was not going so well. The instructing officer was giving him grief and he was in a bit of a mess.
In desparation the officer said 'get out of my boat'. At which point this poor cadet stepped out into the canal.

[j.sabourn]

Should have pulled the plug out before he went. JS

[cappy]

don't suppose you no what crowd was a board john do you on the fernmoor

[alf corbyn]

des old lad, if you got it up the box would always have been ready.

js. the #11. twas not i methinks.

[j.sabourn]

#16... Cappy received the cuttings from the bloke in NZ who got in touch with you about the ship going aground of South Shields yonks ago. He sometimes writes Articles for Sea Breezes. Can give you exerts from the clippings. Although there were 40 British nationals on board assume some must have been Geordie apart from the 3 Welshmen. Looking at clippings I am probably wrong think it is a Welsh newspaper. "The Western Telegraph and Cymric" probably the Welsh contingent on here will know. Cuttings Feb. 5th. 1954 Four Lifeboats carrying bout 40 survivors were seen from the air today clustering around the 5,012 ton British Motor ship Fernmoor......All the crew of the Fernmoor are British nationals. The 3 Welshmen are second officer J.R.R. Jenkins of Aberporth, R.O. Llewellyn of Gran-wye-more, and D.Grs. C. Jones of Gasworks Road Neath. Would have been a Geordie Skipper no doubt and most likely a Geordie crew, but being a Welsh paper the report is mostly about them. That was the clipping from the South Wales Echo of Feb. 5 1954. The other cutting states. However she was too badly damaged the crew went back on board to try and salvage, but she sank at midnight. The crew were picked up by the tanker Tomogerus which discharged them in Miri in Borneo. There were no casualitys. I wonder how that was without having a modern Health and Safety consultants on scene. Cheers John Sabourn