A no picture quiz

[happy daze john in oz]

My biggest problem at the moment is getting to the bottle shop and back without a car. Dont think am capable of carrying it back even if did manage to walk both ways. JS

Of course a very good woman would get it for you.
Have you considered asking her next doors??

[JerryRose]

Liqourice Allsorts , Of the 80 or so would have to itemise them individually. . God I"m pleased Im retired and made 65.

Totally agree with you. I jumped in the deep end on tankers as well and wondered what the hell i’d let myself in for! You took the rough with the smooth and got in with it. I never regretted it, saw the world and would do it all again. But now “Wooden ships and iron men” have transitioned to “iron ships and head office puppets”. Unfortunately these days modern technology is so far advanced you have to approach it with a different mindset. And health and safety has now become a dominant force that everyone’s afraid of. I’m retired and now the ‘wrong side’ of 75, — but I’d still do it all again.

“Where the sky meets the sea is where I prefer to be”

[j.sabourn]

#41. Probably hit me with her witches broom . JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

No more flogging the log to get a half Sunday or full Sunday at sea, no more 'Scrap Logs' for court and arbitration cases, although not yet mandatory, paper logs are being phased out with the approval of the IMO and being replaced by digital logs with immediate transmission to shore (Company Operations). These will follow a prescribed formatt, so no need to think about what you are writing, the brain will become redundant.




Glad I'm ashore

[Ravenglass]

All Tankships. 1 Product, 1 Bitumen, 3 Crude under 100,000 dwt, one of them twice, 3 Crude over 200,000 dwt, one of them twice, 1 OBO, 2 LPG, one of them stood by building and sailed on her twice and one LNG.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Austin.
I had those baswords in the British tax office. As I was boarding the Southern Cross to emigrate to NZ, they had two sitting like hamsters on the bottom of the gangway, said I owed 76 pounds in tax, I said how the hell could I, they took that before we paid off every ship, they said not for your Sundays at sea, I said what if I don't pay? they said then you don't board the ship, thinking back now I should have said stick it and walked away then later gone up the crews gangway when they all came back from the pub.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Got a similar letter from the blood suckers way back then.
Sent it back with a note saying if you want the money ask the ships I was on, they did my pay and took tax.
Maybe it was then spent at the pub.
Never heard any more,

[Mike R868356]

Me to envious to this day of mates who also did cargo tankers etc.