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    Doc Vernon

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    Well John, not really yes i was on two occasions in First Class Dining, but all my other trips were in Tourist Class Gallop, with 2 Sittings of Fourteen

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    Doc Vernon

    Re: Merchant Navy Records

    Hello Stephen
    Can we please have his Full name Place and DOB.

    This info will help us to locate any records he

    Doc Vernon Today, 09:22 PM Go to last post
    Mary Mchenry

    Re: Empire March

    Thanks for this. I can’t get to the National At hives at the moment but hopefully one day… I’ve looked at all the links and have a fair

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    Stephen Green

    Merchant Navy Records

    I have got my father’s WW2 land based army records. However, he was attached to the Merchant Navy as part of DEMS. I cannot find any records of his sea

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    John George Gardiner

    Re: John George Gardiner

    I was an Operating Theatre Technician. We had a Nun in for a minor op. The Anaesthetist was not certain what she said as she was dropping off to sleep.

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    John George Gardiner

    Re: John George Gardiner

    I was born in Whitley Bay in June at the start of the Second World War. I am a miracle child. I was born at home. I contracted double pneumonia and was

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    Stephen Green

    Merchant Navy Records

    Thread Starter: Stephen Green

    I have got my father’s WW2 land based army records. However, he was attached to the Merchant Navy as part of DEMS. I cannot find any records of his sea

    Last Post By: Doc Vernon Today, 09:22 PM Go to last post
    Ken Atkinson

    Where was your parent on VE-Day?

    Thread Starter: Ken Atkinson

    Where were your parents on VE-Day?
    Through the war 30,248 Merchant Navy Seamen aged 14 to 79 had been killed, usually with no known grave, due

    Last Post By: Ken Atkinson Today, 03:14 PM Go to last post
    James Curry

    Explosion on Maresk box boat

    Thread Starter: James Curry

    A crankcase explosion on the Marsek Sana has injured 3 engineroom crew members.
    She is or was adrift in the Atlantic about 350 miles after sailing

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    James Curry

    Ask a Glasgow man

    Thread Starter: James Curry

    A common enough reply you might hear to a question you might have asked in a pub in Glasgow





    Made me smile

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    jennifer mcalley

    looking for long lost friend

    Thread Starter: jennifer mcalley

    Hi,
    Can anyone assist me with tracing a long lost friend, Anthony Bludd, who attended Wellesley Nautical School in 1955

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    John Arton

    Pizza joke

    Thread Starter: John Arton

    An American business man went to Japan on business but he hated Japanese food. He asked the hotel concierge if there was anywhere where he could get proper

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