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    Have you still got your boat Keith or did it get sunk by Drake on the Spanish Main. Cheers JS

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    #1.. Buenos Aires was always home to a lot of tramp shipping . The first time I was there was 1954 on a ship called the Avonmoor, ahead of us in the South Dock lay another trampship the Geneton who I knew people on board , I was there again in 1961 after being in collision in the River Plate so was there longer than most times. It was a quite common run to load coal from Cardiff for B.A. and then load wheat there for other parts of the world . Nearly every flag flown in those early days was the Red Duster . So will have your work cut out , you may strike lucky however as someone might remember the name of your father. Which is more than usual not like Smith or Jones. Never give up hope, cheers. jWS

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    Hi Kieth….glad to know there is still another one alive and kicking...have not seen much (or any ) in fact about S.A.S.L.
    I went to sea with them on the ST THOMAS in 1958 ,stayed a few trips , had a stroke at the age of 19 in Beunos Aires
    spent a few months in Hospital Brittanico ?? in BA before returning as a DBS on the ST ESSYLT. Spell ashore then went back to sea
    before getting married coming ashore and joined HM Coastguard . Not far from you ...R690...
    best regards Dave John alias SAINTLINESAILOR.

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    Hi dave, was on the St Merriel for 7 months 1958, she was an old girl, lovely run down there, kt
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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    Have you still got your boat Keith or did it get sunk by Drake on the Spanish Main. Cheers JS

    John, welcome home good to see you again.
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    Correction to the rhyme

    Should read "Sometime in the last.... etc

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    Hi John have not been on site for a while and it was a pleasant surprise to see you back with us. Rgds Den

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    Still waiting for the Posters Fathers name so we can asssist!
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    First off, thanks for all the replies, the information and guidance. One of those ship names mentioned was in my Dad's diary: the Ronsard

    One of the football matches played was against a ship called the Oswestry Grange.

    My Dad, David Raven from Croxteth in Liverpool, was basically hitch-hiking around the world. On Fri March 03, 1967 he was in a pub in Montevideo when four blokes from the Ronsard walked in. He met up with them again in Buenos Aires but when the Ronsard left BA on Wed March 29 he then bumped into a mate from back home, Mick Maguire, whose ship had docked. He doesn't name the ship but it left BA on Thursday, April 06, 1967

    My Dad then carried on his hitch-hiking across to Chile where he boarded the Donizetti and sailed up to Panama.

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    Thanks David - yes the Ronsard was on the BA run then. I was on the Ronsard in Jan 1965 on the BA run till April 1965 when I joined the Raphael which was also on the BA run. Stayed on the Raphael the till end of 1967. The only time we ever played football against another ship was in Santos when we played a Norwegian ship, cannot remember the name. We turned up in T shirt, shorts and pumps, they turned up in full kit including shin pads and kicked us off the field. I ended up with two broken toes on my right foot when one of the Norwegians kicked my foot instead of the ball. Happy days.
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