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27th February 2020, 08:16 AM
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Re: Finding the name of a ship
Have you still got your boat Keith or did it get sunk by Drake on the Spanish Main. Cheers JS
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27th February 2020, 08:56 AM
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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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27th February 2020, 02:12 PM
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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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27th February 2020, 02:25 PM
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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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28th February 2020, 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
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.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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1st March 2020, 06:32 PM
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Correction to the rhyme
Should read "Sometime in the last.... etc
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9th March 2020, 07:51 PM
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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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9th March 2020, 08:53 PM
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Still waiting for the Posters Fathers name so we can asssist!
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26th March 2020, 03:11 PM
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Re: Finding the name of a ship
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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26th March 2020, 04:08 PM
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