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From what I see of the younger ones now there will be no culture to hand down.
I sailed with one of those people who started off as the boy on a Thames barge. Think his father was the skipper , that was the usual manning of such
Hi John. Don't know about that but we stopped delivering to the golf course after about twelve months to many complaints from the locals, but the
Did they call that affluent effluent Des ? JS.
Hi Frank. It depended on how desperate the skipper was to sail, There are records of boys of 14 joining ships during the war, also on the Thames
The guards are already there they call them Grey Nurses, so they have medical attention as well so shouldn’t complain. JS
Anyone remember what the minimum joining age was in the 1960's?
Subject: Those Were The Days My Friend... Heard a Doctor on TV recently (Norman Swan on ABC) telling us that we
Not musical and not sexual descriptions , but what I can remember of running a Browns B type Gyro Compass on a DC ship. Anyone else experience the same
I have a few photos of an ancestor in various uniforms in India (and North Africa) taken between 1936 and 1947. I cannot find any ancestry records of
When you think you have scored but maybe that should be pulled