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7th April 2021, 09:17 AM
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Re: Signing on a ship
That describes it exactly as I remember, I was passenger ship and there could be 100+ signing on at the same time even 200 on an overseas crew change. As for what you took with you I suppose that was down to your job, being a cook I carried my working knives and several sets of Chefs whites. From experience I know Trawler crew would be rquired to take their mattress roll also.
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7th April 2021, 02:42 PM
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Re: Signing on a ship
As far as I remember I never signed anything and never had a discharge book, just went into Fyffes office in 1973 asked if they had any jobs, was sent to a local taylor for uniform and given a plane ticket LHR to Panama along with the phone number of the local agent.
I may have signed a form with bank account details so they could pay me but that was about it.
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8th April 2021, 06:02 AM
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Re: Signing on a ship
From memory signing on with UCL was to see the second steward and hope he was in a good mood.
One voyage he told me I was a very suitable person to work as officers steward as my dad had been a pig farmer.
Nice bludger he was.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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