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16th December 2010, 07:22 PM
#41
O K Dave just for you, Alfred Holt & Co. The Blue Funnel Line .AKA The Welsh Navy.
Have a good Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011.
Regards
Andy Stewart
R805875.
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16th December 2010, 08:24 PM
#42
I have in the past seen a shortage of "Brains" in South Wales and it is a disaster. A black day.
regards from a Blue Flu man
jimmy
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27th April 2011, 06:40 AM
#43
G'day Micheal and welcome to the site. If you could add some dates to the ship it might help to jog the memory of some who may have know you. Any bit of information will make it a bit easier.
Sure there will be someone who remembers you.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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28th April 2011, 04:30 PM
#44
missed this company
hi shipmates bought a book with some blue funnel ships in it any one on this one? S.S. Sarpedon in rio de janero, photo b/w looks a great one? I was never on any of them did you sail on it? tell all please
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28th April 2011, 06:40 PM
#45
Louis mi Amigo,Hola Que Pasa?
Now it all depends whitch SARPEDON photo you have,there were a few.
1st.Built Scotts.Greenock.1931. 7,540grt.
1957.Transferred to Glen Line and renamed GLENLOCHY.
1958.Back to Blue Funnel and renamed SARPEDON.
1962. Sold for scrap. Broken-up Hong Kong.
2nd, 1939.Built as DENBIGHSHIRE for Glen Line.7,151grt.
1967 transferred to Blue Funnel,renamed SARPEDON.
1969 Sold. Broken-up Kaohsiung.
Hope this helps,ttfn. Peter T.
A Nation of Sheep will Beget A Government of Wolves.
( R625016 )
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1st May 2011, 01:13 PM
#46
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3rd May 2011, 12:05 PM
#47
Originally Posted by
Louis the Amigo
hi shipmates bought a book with some blue funnel ships in it any one on this one? S.S. Sarpedon in rio de janero, photo b/w looks a great one? I was never on any of them did you sail on it? tell all please
I sailed on "Sarpedon" in 1947 as 3rdR/O round far east trip. Quite a few of the passengers ex Liverpool were returning to Hong Kong were they had been in Stanley prison camp . Teb
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13th May 2011, 03:24 PM
#48
Denis O'Brien
Yes I was trained at Birkenhead by Mr O'Brien a very good teacher.
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3rd June 2011, 02:41 PM
#49
Ixion - Peter Kenyon and Walter Beebee
Hi,
Does anyone remember Peter Kenyon (2nd RO) and Walter Beebee (1st RO) on the Ixion between 1950-1968?
Kind regards
Nicola
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6th June 2011, 02:28 PM
#50
Anyone sailed on the Menestheus in the seventies?
Lin?
Last edited by Lin Treadgold; 6th June 2011 at 08:36 PM.
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