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    Des Jenkins

    Re: Lifeboat Exams in South Africa.

    Hi John
    Two and a half sets of crutches? You must have had a realy bad fall LoL.
    I still can't remember where I got my lifeboat cert from

    Des Jenkins Today, 01:34 AM Go to last post
    Des Jenkins

    Re: First Foreign Port.

    My first port was Galveston in Texas in July 49, picking up a cargo of wheat for Hamburg. I was also my first death on a ship, when a heel block broke

    Des Jenkins Today, 01:26 AM Go to last post
    Des Jenkins

    Re: Australian police.

    Hi Gino.
    Sorry but State Govt's have no say in who comes into Australia, only the feds can do that,at the time of the huge influx of immigrants

    Des Jenkins Today, 01:08 AM Go to last post
    j.sabourn

    Re: First Foreign Port.

    #4. If you got around the pubs in Freo Mike think it would still have been the same in earlier years , but the Pennisular and Oriental better know as

    j.sabourn Today, 01:01 AM Go to last post
    Des Jenkins

    Re: docking day

    Hi Les.
    Many people will b breathing a sigh of relief today, after that plonker Liberal leader Dutton said he would legislate to stop the tax rebate

    Des Jenkins Today, 01:00 AM Go to last post
    Les Woodard

    Re: docking day

    Got to say that I fully agree with you Vern. Talking to my mate in WA and found out that the pension mob got him to contact the UK pension for payments.

    Les Woodard Today, 12:50 AM Go to last post
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    Hazel Stringer

    Another sideways leap to fill gaps in my knowledge!

    Thread Starter: Hazel Stringer

    Recently, I discovered a book called "Winston's Specials" by Archie Munro. It has several pages on the convoy that took Dad from Glasgow to

    Last Post By: Hazel Stringer Yesterday, 10:10 PM Go to last post
    Phil Hughes

    Lifeboat Exams in South Africa.

    Thread Starter: Phil Hughes

    Hi all,
    I was wondering if any of you sailed on Union Castle from London's KGV and took instruction with the 2nd; Mate en-route to sit

    Last Post By: Des Jenkins Today, 01:34 AM Go to last post
    George Gunn

    First Foreign Port.

    Thread Starter: George Gunn

    My first foreign port was Lisbon I was 16 years old and clueless . Went ashore with a group of old hands to a drinking establishment that they had visited

    Last Post By: Des Jenkins Today, 01:26 AM Go to last post
    j.sabourn

    A bit of a fizzler .

    Thread Starter: j.sabourn

    Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies.
    A nurse goes up to the first guy and says “ Congratulations !

    Last Post By: Des Jenkins Yesterday, 01:54 AM Go to last post
    Johnny Kieran

    Australian police.

    Thread Starter: Johnny Kieran

    I see in the UK news, that the Australian police are luring UK coppers to join them.
    If I were a bollotician, I'd be over the moon about it. It

    Last Post By: Des Jenkins Today, 01:08 AM Go to last post
    John George Gardiner

    John George Gardiner

    Thread Starter: John George Gardiner

    Good morning all. I am new to this site. I was a Bell Boy on P&O ships from Tilbury to Australia 1955/56 at 16 years of age. I look forward to restoring

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