Would this be the one in Question,Anchored just outside Table BAY!??
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http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20...acaulay-02.jpg
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Would this be the one in Question,Anchored just outside Table BAY!??
Cheers
http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20...acaulay-02.jpg
Thats her.
If by "Outside Table Bay" you mean..... inside Duncan Dock, then yes that is her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Vernon
Vic
I have included your story on Clan MacAulay's page.
Reagards
Chris
You hit the nail, Rob Page. I was being polite, being a newbie here. Stan Steele was also a fat coward. It was his habit, seemingly, to dish out the engineer's mail and he tried to have us all sit on the deck while he flicked letters etc. at us by name. Your remark about his "degree of instability" was, indeed, overly polite. He was a pure nutter, lazy, crawling rat. I became just another one of his pet hates, when I rebelled at this habit first time in Capetown. :-) The junior second, Willie Falconer, was his total opposite, thank goodness.
He (Steele) also liked to sing a boere song about "The Old Transvaal" when loaded. Did he perform for you, too? That was only my second trip at sea and even Steele didn't dampen my joy & excitement at the looks and smells of Capetown. So much so that years later I emigrated to South Africa and lived there for many years, loving every minute of it.
On several of the Facebook threads , Union Castle , British & Commonwealth etc , there is references to the recently deceased Tony Hickman , he was third Engineer . He spent all his time winding Stainless Stan up , vanished one Sunday morning in Durban , when Stan asked him where he had been before Breakfast , Tony told him Mass , that did fire him up . Then Stan was having a go about apprentices all being Sh**e , Tony thanked him and stated it was a reflection on the Chief Engineers who taught them , Stan missed the point . The man was a bigot and a bully . I paid off and went to the London Office to See Charlie Banks in Personnel , I put a complaint in , but Charlie showed me the end of voyage report , and despite the ship going to the scrapyard in Spain , Stan had filled out his requirements for the next trip , we were all sacked , and he wanted a good centre forward , and a decent defender ,as well as a good goalie , it was badly written , and looked like it was the work of an insane man , Charlie said name your ship , and that was the start of a happy year on the Pendennis Castle . Out of all the engineers I have ever sailed with , Stan was the worst , by a long mile !
Thanks for the photo on the CLAN MACAULEY, Vernon. Copied and pasted to my HDD.
Not to make any waves over this Chris but Duncan Dock was a Dock in its own right started to take shape (Built) in 1940 by the reclamation of a very large piece of Land .Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Isaac
The Ship in the Picture is not in Duncan Dock it is in Table Bay just outside the Harbour!
I was brought up in Cape Town and know it well!
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Below is Duncan Docks in 1962
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Great photo Vernon, brings back some wonderful memories od a mis spent youth. Funny how your very first overseas port stay in you mind for ever.