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    Bill McRobb

    Re: Question about salary

    I joined my first (Australian) ship in 1968. As a fitter I earned $67 per week. My wages as 5th Eng, (not salary) was $52 per week plus overtime. There

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    Bob Hay

    Re: Hello everyone.

    Aye JS, I think the Guild was dominated by ex Blue Flu and BI members. The Institute was far more willing to recruit any engineers.
    Yeah, met Vince

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    Art Wadsworth

    Re: Another bridge hit by ship

    One of the videos I saw showed the tug made up on the starboard quarter as she backed out and started to turn. The tug then cast off and tried to move

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    John Arton

    Re: Canadian Pacific skipper Richard Walgate

    I sailed with a captain walgate on the empress of Canada in 1973?, the last year of Atlantic crossing before she was laid up prior to her sale to carnival

    John Arton Yesterday, 10:23 PM Go to last post
    Doc Vernon

    Re: Missing information

    OK Lads thanks for all this , however can we now just get back to the Original issue at hand, and stick on that!
    Always many of these Threads that

    Doc Vernon Yesterday, 09:56 PM Go to last post
    John Arton

    Seductive wife

    In a seductive voice, the wife asked her husband if he would like to see a crumpled £20,yes please he says, the wife slowly unbuttons her top and from

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    John Arton

    Seductive wife

    Thread Starter: John Arton

    In a seductive voice, the wife asked her husband if he would like to see a crumpled £20,yes please he says, the wife slowly unbuttons her top and from

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    Robert Walgate

    Canadian Pacific skipper Richard Walgate

    Thread Starter: Robert Walgate

    Hi there mariners! Anyone have any recollections of my late father, Richard Walgate, who became Commodore of CPS in the 1960s? As a boy I sailed with

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    George Gunn

    Abandoned ship full of EVs burning in the Pacific.

    Thread Starter: George Gunn

    A cargo ship transporting 3,000 cars abandoned in the middle of the Pacific after massive fife broke out it is thought that the fire was fueled by the

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    vic mcclymont

    South Africa

    Thread Starter: vic mcclymont

    The South African DOT(Department of Transport) have invited interested groups in forming a committee to look at proposal to form a new State owned shipping

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    j.sabourn

    Ain’t life great.

    Thread Starter: j.sabourn

    After being married for many years ,I took a careful look at my wife one day and said,” when we were first married , we had
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    Helen Carter

    Missing information

    Thread Starter: Helen Carter

    Hello
    I’m looking for any information about my uncle, Kenneth R. Simon. We believe he served in the Merchant Navy during WW2, although we’re not

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