Do ships actually follow the Maritime Labour Convention?

[Tony Taylor]

#19 was the pilot one of the Purvis’s Tony ? JS

no idea John, I can find out, a mate of my son runs the pilot cutter (along with others of course).

[j.sabourn]

There used to be 3 family’s ran the pilotage think their names were. purvis . philips and Burns, one of them think it was the Purvis but not too sure was related in some way before my time where his great uncle married one of the Sabourn womenfolk who were a fishing family from Cullercoats. The only reason I think I know this was one of my kids was doing a family tree and it appeared on their piece of paper when I was looking over his/her shoulder. One of them got his required seatime on A Runciman ship I was on years ago. They served their time on the cutter and got so much seatime for but not enough to sit for 2 mate , and believe it was either their or the DTI s policy to have to be a registered pilot on the Tyne. Cheers JS

[Tony Taylor]

There used to be 3 family’s ran the pilotage think their names were. purvis . philips and Burns, one of them think it was the Purvis but not too sure was related in some way before my time where his great uncle married one of the Sabourn womenfolk who were a fishing family from Cullercoats. The only reason I think I know this was one of my kids was doing a family tree and it appeared on their piece of paper when I was looking over his/her shoulder. One of them got his required seatime on A Runciman ship I was on years ago. They served their time on the cutter and got so much seatime for but not enough to sit for 2 mate , and believe it was either their or the DTI s policy to have to be a registered pilot on the Tyne. Cheers JS

enq in hand, might take a while, son is 12 on 12 off just now.

[j.sabourn]

Well it’s better than 12 on and stop on . Cheers thanks , sometimes I think my memory’s ok other times I think I’m suffering from amnesia. I suppose ones memory only remembers what it wants to JS

[Keith Tindell]

As its been collecting info for a long time John, i suppose like my computer it can get clogged up, but if you have a declutter, only keep the happy stuff,

[Ivan Cloherty]

I think I’m suffering from amnesia. JS

I thought that was a rice pudding!

[James Curry]

fynnon.jpgThis is what you need. My grandfather swore by these salts said it always give him a good clear out body and mind. Granda was stone deaf,he was a riviter in the yard. He was also Royal Artillery on the Somme. Trouble with granda was when he took a glass of Fynnon salts he thought everyone else was deaf.
He made it until he was 96. Not a tall man but as hard as nails. A docker in later life. He had hands like a baseball players catchers mit.

[John Arton]

Although going to sea these days is vastly different to what most of us experienced back in our days, it can still give you a rewarding career. As to the MLC all reputable owners and management will adhere to the code, the consequences of failure to follow will result in significant financial costs.
Rgds
J.A.

[Tony Taylor]

Well it’s better than 12 on and stop on . Cheers thanks , sometimes I think my memory’s ok other times I think I’m suffering from amnesia. I suppose ones memory only remembers what it wants to JS

nothing to worry about John, I think most of us are the same.

[j.sabourn]

#27 Ivan I must admit I have never heard of it the MLC is it a government dept. ? I left the UK in 1991 . Was it before or after this date whenever it is came into being . I assumed the Coast Guard took the place of the DTI and even that took some getting used to, whenever I think of the coastguard I visualise them sitting in a hut on the top of the white cliffs of Dover surrounded by VHFs and R/T equipment and a big brass telescope at hand . I must say out here where I carried on where I left off in the UK have also never come across it. Maybe it’s true then that Britain no longer rules the waves , has the slavery bit started yet.? JS