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My fascination with the sea started as a young 15 year old pupil on a B&I School Cruise to the Greek Islands, aboard the 'Devonia', a converted troop
Reminded me of a rough crossing on the Beaver Pine. The weather was awful, just as you described it, and an Empress boat zipped past us with hardly any
I really wanted to be an airline pilot but didn't have the A levels, which could have got me on a training course run by the airlines and as my parents
EEh Lad, tha wer rich, I earned £6 a month in 1954, with an allotment to me mum of £2 10s a month, Govt took NHI and had to repay Missions to Seamen
In 1968 as an Apprentice I earn't £18 9s 6p per month!
At the age of 7, I lived on and island in Norway near Kristiansand and in bad weather the ships would shelter behind the island. I thought, I want to
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
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
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
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
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 a cheap house , a junk
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
