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11th October 2023, 04:43 PM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks

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Kong had the best tale ever about scattering ashes at sea ......re a fresh painted bulkhead and a weather side disposal of ashes .....if he sees this he may tell the story .....lol r683532 ps and the widow was on the vessel ......but a clever ploy got the miscreants of the hook ........i still laugh at it years later r683532
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12th October 2023, 12:27 AM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Hi Brian,
My thoughts are with you mate, enjoy the tales we know you are with us .
Cheers Des
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12th October 2023, 05:39 AM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Brian ,if you do not come back on site soon your brain, an anagram of Brian, will dry up.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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12th October 2023, 04:45 PM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
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Kong had the best tale ever about scattering ashes at sea ......re a fresh painted bulkhead and a weather side disposal of ashes .....if he sees this he may tell the story .....lol r683532 ps and the widow was on the vessel ......but a clever ploy got the miscreants of the hook ........i still laugh at it years later r683532
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Another one was on the TECTUS a Shell tankerin1954
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13th October 2023, 12:05 PM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Sorry about that/ my eye sight is fading. I thought I had typed a reply
On the Tec
on the Téctus, Shell T2, jn 1954, scatterin A CHIEFS Ashes. the galley skyligh was open
at lunch time our soup was a bit crunchy
The galley boy thought the cook nhad added some ingredient and stirred it up
it tasted OK until we we realised where it had comne from
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13th October 2023, 12:18 PM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Anyone go for seconds Brian. Not engineers but the soup. JS
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14th October 2023, 12:40 AM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Hi Brian.
I have heard of giving chickens grit, but that takes the cake, or should I say soup.
Des
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14th October 2023, 02:04 AM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
Maybe that’s how packet cuppa soup is manufactured . JS
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14th October 2023, 05:47 AM
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Well I often wonder what happens to all the bits that do not make it to KFC!!!!


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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16th October 2023, 08:27 AM
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Re: Scattering ashes in docks
I spent a few months as an instructor at the Gravesend NSTS during the early 90's sadly the school was declining along with the British fleet. To attract more business the Chief Office at the school was tasked with creating more income streams and to that end spotted a gap in the training of FRC handling and practice. So he designed a course to prep mariners to coxswain level. The FRC was run from the school jetty. One of the younger instructors ( who had delusions of grandeur, one might say) was trained as a trainer. Around this time we had received a circular (I think from the PLA) informing of the strict rules re the dumping of waste into the Thames. During a practice run the FRC trainer saw what he believed was a serious infringement of the new 'river fly tipping' regs by a small launch. He ranged alongside the offending vessel and delivered a sermon at the top of his voice on the need to stop dumping waste. Unfortunately for him the rather glum looking party of people on the launch deck were in the process of scattering ashes followed by the odd rose and posy of flowers. Our deluded trainer learned one of managements basic rules 'before issuing a verbal barracking make sure you have your facts right'
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