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Nice one, reminded me of a Shell tanker, I joined in 68, went on tour of ship and in galley I saw a fried egg on a plate in a redundant grill, looked all dried up then but thought maybe one of chinese crew was letting it mature a bit.
It was still there six months later, so must have been well matured by then I wud have thought.
There are various International shipping company.
Baskerville??
Hi Denis,
I like your post, this is a long time after, I remember those days in Corner Brook. The problem with the over boots was that every one took them off in the lobby and when you came out drunk... some times you got a better pair going back to the ship than you came in with.
The Screech was like "Fire Water" did you ever attempt "Seal Flipper Pie"
I was in and out of Corner Brook for two years on the Nicolas Bowater and had many friends there in the old days
Geoff Bray
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Dear John
I am not sure if you will even see this message, i am the niece of Edward Gie Hamilton, we are busy with our family tree and have no information on him, i by accident came across this site, any information that you may have or know of anyone else i can contact with regards would be very much appreciated. i know it has been many years but i am not going to give up at this point trying to find out what happend to my Uncle.
Thank you, much appreciated
Kindest regards
Hi John
I am anew but very old boy, you mention a lot of bowters, but I wonder if you were on the Markland, looking in my Discharge book, I was on from 16/08 /60, until the 14/03/61, as a second cook and baker.
Almost got stuck in Cornerbrook, and had o wait for a bigger icebreaker to get us out, Markland was on the newsprint rum to New York, Washington DC (Alexandria) South Caroliner several times. As I recall, a very nice ship well victualled etc. but not well known.
Hi Barry,
I was Captains Tiger on the NICOLAS, 'did her maiden voyage to Sweden, then a trip around Africa and the trip to Australia. I guess you must have heared about her engine problems on her very first Trans-Atlantic crossing to Cornerbrook, N.S. After arriving at Cornerbrook,We were towed to the Halifax Naval Ship Yard, were we spent three weeks while they repaired the engines. ( Contaminated Lub system, choked oil galeries ) I well remember the chief engineer. The engineers were very friendly, Since I was studying Automotive systems, we had interesting talks. I often wonder where all those guys wound up after all these years.
Best of 73's
Pete Lindstrom
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