Just looked at the photo ! Hmmmmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!! Wallpaper, flowered curtains, and handbags, now I remember why I never applied to join one of their ships
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Just looked at the photo ! Hmmmmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!! Wallpaper, flowered curtains, and handbags, now I remember why I never applied to join one of their ships
Just looked at the photo ! Hmmmmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!! Wallpaper, flowered curtains, and handbags, now I remember why I never applied to join one of their ships
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.Me too Ivan, and also one man trying to mount another.
What jolly times these sailors have.
Cheers
Brian.
Eddie was Assistant Steward on Rotherwick Castle in 1969 and I was Second Mate on her.
Eddie was tragically swept overboard whilst he was sun bathing. The ship hit a freak wave and when the water had cleared Eddie had gone.
He was a lovely guy without a bad bone in his body. As camp as a row of tents and he would have been the first to admit it.
Thanks for that information Chris. I was a first trip catering boy when I met Edward. He was a great character and as you say very camp. I never went to sea training school so had very little knowledge of ships in general or catering in particular. Edward spent a lot of his own time showing me how to do my job in a more efficient and professional manner. He was like a lot of "gay" merchant seamen at the time very helpful and knowledgable and willing to pass that on to first trippers like myself just to help you. Characters like Edward were accepted at sea but not ashore, at the time. I will allways be thankful to Edward and others I sailed with over the years who helped me to learn my job and gain promotion and to help me on the way to a very rewarding and satisfying career.
Bowaters Great ships good feeders, Gladys Bowater 15-02-1960 / 17-03-1960
As part of the B&C Staff Register I would like as many ex Bowater people to register and tell their experiences of Bowaters.
I want to hear of your fun with the company, your fears when B&C got involved (I have sympathy with that as I was with South American Saint Line and we had the same fate)
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Click on register, enter your details and I will enter and upload. If you have photographs even better just send me an email with them attached.
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Hoping to hear from many of you
Regards
Chris
In the 50,s I was on the caxton and the Caslon.These were known in Manchester as paper boats.There was at least one other but I cannot recall the owners.We always understood it was a newspaper firm
john sutton
I believe it was a Runciman's ship , and foundered mid 1960's off Rhodes .