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    Doc Vernon

    Re: docking day

    I woke up Today James and also first looked and said same thing!?
    Seems that Threads always seem to be going haywire , and like this one , here

    Doc Vernon Today, 08:34 PM Go to last post
    Bob Rowson

    Re: British Hotel Lyttelton

    t
    was the mid sixties in Lyttleton. British Hotel three ships, A Port boat A star boat and a Federal boat all due to sail at the same time. and

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    John Blackwood

    Re: Shipping Federation

    it was called colloquili as the pool i was at birminhams one, ship fed from 70.s to late 90.s, you can contact the marine union, nautilus, best days of

    John Blackwood Today, 07:43 PM Go to last post
    Bill Morrison

    Re: First Foreign Port.

    Hi John. Almost a carbon copy. Flew to Dunkirk from Southend to join my ship and sign on. Sailed within a couple hours for the Persian Gulf, Kharg Island.

    Bill Morrison Today, 06:44 PM Go to last post
    George Rix

    Re: Clean her up

    I would have thought those horses had bolted the stable centuries ago!

    George Rix Today, 03:34 PM Go to last post
    Ivan Cloherty

    Re: First Foreign Port.

    That would have been 'Whitfields Ointment' a staple of the medicine locker, a cure-all for most everything, like 'Black Draught', Whitfields had an initial

    Ivan Cloherty Today, 02:44 PM Go to last post
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    John Arton

    Pizza joke

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    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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    Des Jenkins

    Birthday greetings

    Thread Starter: Des Jenkins

    Happy birthday to John Gills, hope you have a nice day for it John
    Cheers Des

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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

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    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

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    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

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    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.
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