some of my ships 60-67

Was the Dragoon still a lightering ship in'82

hello old Janner
i was ch/steward on Dragoon maiden voyage
if you are old what does does that make me?
i am 83 now
you might be interested to know i left BP in 66 and came to Aust with my family
i did another 26 yrs on Oz ships as c/cook as at the time there was 7 unions on board
so in total i did 48 yrs at sea]

I did my first trip on the British Prestige I joined her in Heburn at the Palmer's shipyard were she had extra section put in just aft of midships that was in 1967 we sailed for kharg island to load crude ,then back to hamburg,then we went back to kharg then back to kotka in Finland to discharge we then got orders for cow es roads so we could pay off some of the crew stayed on but i left .I never sailed on any more bp ships but have worked on plenty of there rigs offshore,being my first ship I thought the food was great 5 course menu etc also they opened a bar on the ship which i believe was one of the first crew bars on any British ship were you could have more than the six cans a night all in all i enjoyed my first trip and the crew where all great guys.

I remember seeing the 'British Builder' in the gulf in 1963.Looked a game old ship.

G;day Old Janner
I thought you would have communicated before now
I was the C/Stwd on the B. dragoon when new
what position were you in?
rgds John:)

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Originally Posted by ron

Hi x ship mates,done my stint at Sharpness feb 1960 mar 1960, catering lots of things to remember,.Joined my first ship in Antwerp, for someone that had never been out of SCOTLAND, it was not so good , sick on the ferry all the way,It was the Baron Inverclyde13/4/60 Scottish Monarch7/12/60 -8/3/62 wow it was a long trip then a ferrv ship St CLAIR10/5/62-6/862. Queen Mary 13/9/62-27/12/62,as a ass/ baker... Went join BP, and was sent to Llandarcy near Swansea to train as a 2nd cook , done a few weeks there , then was sent to my first BP ship the Br Swift3/63-9/63,,others were Br Splendour. Br Robin .Br Dragoon. Br Kestrel.Br Comet. and Br Trust, left M,N. 11/5/67 Just liked being a 2nd cook, lots to think back on,so if there is one of you that has been on anay of those ships in would be nice to hear from you .new to the site , so hope to see more of it,..
RON:rolleyes:

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Hi there
Am brand new to this forum....I was a navigating apprentice on the British Trust 1962/1963 when we spent a lot of time broken down in Adelaide and Port Pirie.

Also British Merchant, Grenadier, Merlin, Sergeant and Splendour.

G'day Micheal and welcome to the site, do you have any dates to go with those ship you listed? If so and you can list them you may well get hear from some who sailed with you. So sit back with a cold one and enjoy the voyage.

Sorry...am new member - thought that I had replied to this yesterday but it hasn't shown so will try again today.. Did my navigating apprenticeship with BP 1961 to 1965 on Merchant, Trust, Grenadier, Sergeant, Merlin and Splendour....happy memories patricularly Trust (should have been Thrush) broken down for weeks in Adelaide and Port Pire...then Merlin - handed over to Aussies in Sidney and we flew home.

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Originally Posted by Des Taff Jenkins

Hi Ron
Welcome to the site. I don't think there were many of us who were not sick on our first trip, Still we were at sea in the best of times. I was on seven BP tankers four trips on one of them the British Guardian, but twelve months on the British Builder finished me in 56, I went on the coasters for a few trips, then went on the NZi coast.
Cheers Des

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Hi des .emigrated to kiwi coast 1961,Remember patrick fenton walsh the union boss,got some stories to tell on him.Mike bishop
jumi2@bigpond.com.au

Hi Michael,
I was cabin boy on the Trust during the period you mentioned. Also had a ball during our 3 weeks in Port Adelaide and Port Pirie during repairs.
I think I have still got a newspaper report with ships pic on it from Adelaide referring to the Trust as a "supertanker"
Hope all is well with you.
Regards, Jimmy