auckland star

[Tony Mullen]

I sailed on the good ship lolly pop auckland star 17th jan- 19th may 69.
we did the aussie coast plus tassie. good crowd , I was fireman watchkeeper.
monty montgomerey was second steward and looked after the boys well,
never short of a cold beer and a totally happy crew. down aft accom and rememember
carrying the meals from galley midship across the deck in all weather .the only thing wrong
on her was we were always hungry,poor feeder and a long way from macdonalds.
the humor made up for it. regards to all , tony mullen .

[Glenn Baker]

I joined Auckland Star on the 24th july 1969 did the kiwi coast on her paid off in Hull 9th november 1969. i was Lamptrimmer , all aft accomadation.
it was a bad feeder then too i alway wondered why a refrigerated cargo ship carrying thousands of tonnes of frozen Meat could serve up such measly tight fisted plates of food.

Glenn Baker

[Tony Wilding]

were all blue star ships bad feeders, ?. my first ship was newcastle star, i honestly do not remember if she was a good or bad feeder, i think overtime was ok on them.

[Les Woodard]

Tony we would not know if they where bad feeders with the amount of overtime we used to do on deck we where to buggered to notice especially as we used to party nearly every night as well. Oh to have that stamina back again. Did home trade on the Auckland in 67 and deep sea on the Adelaide. Can not ever say I did not like the tucker served up on any BSL ship that I was on.

[Bob Hollis]

Was on a few, worst was the Colorado but we lived mostly on whisky and soup outward and Salmon and toast homeward. Best were the Ulster and English. Canadian I don't remember.
Les did you ever come across an old bosun Harry Spearman??

[Les Woodard]

Bob could not say if I did or not because that is one of my downfalls in life that names just come and go and remain gone in my head. Think it has to do with moving on to the next adventure that life throws up to one. Hence it was not until a member on site sent me a photo of us together that I remembered well our trip together on the Adelaide.

[Captain Kong]

I sailed on New Zealand, Dunedin, Adelaide and Fremantle Stars, in the 50s, all were lousy feeders. 15000 tons of food in the holds and we were starving. We could get down the hatches homeward bound and get cases of corned beef and cases of tinned peaches, all under the bunk and fed well off those.
Cheers
Brian.

[Tony Mullen]

hi les ,yes I remember the deck crowd saying she was a work up,
28 derricks and a jumbo. I was fireman on her but later changed to deck and
my second job as DHU was the cymric and that was a workup on deck and I don't
mind saying you had to be a good seaman to work on deck on those ships.
I had good teachers and would gladly sign on today, we wish.
on the spring by myself with rust dust filling the air thinking this thing is going to take me
with it if it goes, the wire humming and slipping as we pulled her alongside. the worst job
ever on your own. regards tony

[Les Woodard]

Tony did you not know that there was another derrick stowed in number two hatch that if needed could be rigged to make three derricks for number one. Think it was in case of discharging both sides. They thought of everything to cut down turn around times did they not. Have to admit that we did not break out the 29th derrick either LOL.

[Peter Trodden]

I sailed in/on Auckland Star. July--Nov,1963. L-Pool--Kiwi Coast--London. I was AB,and yes Tony there was plenty of derricks to go around,but with a good deck-crew,no Prob,s
She WAS one of the worse feeders I was ever in,and the accomadation for a new Ship (at the time)was crap. Aft,below,small iron cabin with two tin bunks and two tin lockers.
We had a great time on the Kiwi coast,I fell in love in New Plymouth and came close to skining-out I have never been Logged so many times on one Ship,and was very lucky not to get a Burn-Down (DR)
ttfn.Peter.T.