Old Friends

[Danny Khan]

Hello to anyone who may recall me, I sailed on BP Tankers 1977 to 1981, I met some great people and have the fondest memories of my time at sea. My name is Danny Khan I sailed on British Renown twice
British Esk twice
British Liberty
British Norness
British Humber
Brtish Pride.

If anyone recalls me it would be great to exchange notes.

All the best
Danny

[Gordon Brown]

Hi Danny I have a feeling we sailed together on the British Renown. I joined her in Angle Bay. Another crew member was a young scouser called Ian ball. You may remember me as I had long hair and was from Birmingham the bosun was Bill Renolyds.

[Danny Khan]

Hi Brummie,
Yes we did sail together I was the mixed race lad from Yorkshire, I joined at Angle Bay too with Ian. I remeber Bill Reynolds well. There was a second Steward called Bruce can't remeber his last name though. There was also a three Maltese crew members good guys.

Danny

[Gordon Brown]

Hi again, One of the POs was Ken Arkless GP1s Gerry Germain and his friend who was called Barry sorry cannot remember his second name. Bill was quite a charactor with his hearing aid playing up. I remember one of the Maltese was called Joe Block. I remember him well because one day in the engine room we had a tin of grey paint and told by Ken to paint the emergency generator. Joe finnished his side in about twenty minutes. Ken was not amused as we were still doing our side. On closer inspection Joe had only touched up here and there it turned out he was colour blind. We got a few beers from Ken as an appology not needed though. Remember when I picked Ian Ball up and put him in a sink of water in the changing room. Good days Danny..

[Tony Bousfield]

hi Danny,
White honky here,you will probably remember me though i can,t remember which ship it was we sailed to geather on.i was either cook or second cook.you were from bradford if i remember right and we had some good runs ashore.get in touch.
TONY BOUSFIELD.

[Danny Khan]

HelloTony,
We may have sailed on the Brirish Esk, I was good friends with the cook we had some good runs ashore especially in Grangemouth. I remeber getting drunk on a number of occassions really enjoyed the NW Europe runs.
Hope I have gor the right Tony, you wore glasses. I was from Bradford but haven't lived there for over 25 years.

Getbin touch.

Danny

[Danny Khan]

Hello again Brummie I remember Ian and I had some good laughs with you, always able to relate to us at such a young age on our first trip. I remeber Ken well he was a good bloke and Bill was great even though he was deaf most of the time. Gerry and his friend always had Ian and I worried.
I remeber getting drunk on cold duck that stuff really made me ill.

Danny

[Tony Bousfield]

HelloTony,
We may have sailed on the Brirish Esk, I was good friends with the cook we had some good runs ashore especially in Grangemouth. I remeber getting drunk on a number of occassions really enjoyed the NW Europe runs.
Hope I have gor the right Tony, you wore glasses. I was from Bradford but haven't lived there for over 25 years.

Getbin touch.

Danny

Hi Danny.
yes its me i was the cook and we had some good runs ashore,hows things with you and what are you up to now.How long did you stay with BP and when did you finish?.After the redundancies i went on the coast for a few trips with Stevie Clarks as cook/steward but i could not hack coasting cause i was always deep sea.
When i finished with the sea i went long distance driving,i,m now retired thank god.Anyway me old mate let me know what you,ve been up to and keep in touch.
Regards Tony.

[Gordon Brown]

Danny, You drink never!!. I once had 10 cases of cold duck in my cabin the customs guy said "Are you really going to drink all this" He wanted to sample some ,I thought he was trying to catch me out so he went out of my cabin hung his hat on the fire extingusher and came back in. We drank a bottle between us then he asked if he could buy a bottle. A little later he came back with his mate to see if I would sell his oppo a bottle. Yes certainly fun days. I sailed with Ians cousin on several trips.

[kevjacko]

Hi Danny.
yes its me i was the cook and we had some good runs ashore,hows things with you and what are you up to now.How long did you stay with BP and when did you finish?.After the redundancies i went on the coast for a few trips with Stevie Clarks as cook/steward but i could not hack coasting cause i was always deep sea.
When i finished with the sea i went long distance driving,i,m now retired thank god.Anyway me old mate let me know what you,ve been up to and keep in touch.
Regards Tony.

Hi Tony,

I sailed with you on the Security. I joined in Teesport at short notice I was a chief cook but joined as second cook which suited me. The bosun was Tug Wilson. When you paid off Paul Mates joined (is he still alive?). I remember my Missus having to bring you honey coated peanuts everytime we hit the UK.

You still a firebrand mate lol????