David Langley

[David Langley]

SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD

Full Name

David Langley

Discharge Book Number

UK 044208

Department

Radio

Your Rank/Rating

R.O.

Which Ships were you on and When

Sugar Producer (Tate & Lyle) 1977
Ros Castle (Ben Line, British steel charter) 1978
Bayano (Fyffes) 1978
Shirrabank (Bank Line) 1979
Al Solabhia (uasc) 1980
Ibn Asakhia (uasc) 1980
Ahmed al Fatah (uasc) 1981
Jilfar (uasc) 1982

Notes:

Initially employed by Marconi Marine so sailed with various companies on British registered vessels. Then foreign flag (United arab shipping company: Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi, Uae) when work situation declined.

[Doc Vernon]

Welcome to the site David, and thank you for listing your details/
What was it like serving on those Foreign Vessels.

Hope that the site will provide lots for you to keep you interested and busy!
Nice to have you aboard!
Relax and enjoy!
Cheers

[David Langley]

Thank you.
Foreign ships but mostly British officers so very much like sailing under the Red Ensign except for the strange names (and the picture of Sadam Hussien in the ward room on the Iraqi ships :/ ) I sailed on a couple more but honestly can't remember their names and because they didn't stamp a book the only discharge records were loose papers that are long lost.

[Doc Vernon]

because they didn't stamp a book the only discharge records were loose papers that are long lost.

What a bummer David!

Can you not get copies at all!
Just a thought but may be you are now over all that!
Cheers

[j.sabourn]

No such things as copies in those days. I kept an account in my own discharge book in pencil, if did not get a paper discharge. have lost some so also cant remember the names of at least 3 ships. Up until about 1970 if you went back to the pool with a foreign discharge in your book there was hell to pay. Wonder what happened to all their principles later when you couldn't get a British one. Maybe they will fall back on that as an excuse, when saying there is now a shortfall in British Seafarers. Cheers JS

[Doc Vernon]

I thought that the old Board of Trade Cardiff used to issue copies in the 1950.s and earlier!
I know I got Copies of mine (not foreign going though) through them at quite a late stage,not sure but think it must have been in the late 70's will have to look at them and the dates issued!
Cheers

[j.sabourn]

Foreign Flag vessels had nothing to do with the British BOT Vernon. Unless they were Insured at Lloyds and they asked a BOT surveyor to do a survey for Insurance purposes. I had a big row in Port of Spain when this clerk at the High Commissioners Office demanded I had a Liberian vessel discharge put in my British Discharge book and I refused, finished up with him getting a black eye and me being barred and considered a pariah in the little British conclave existing at the time in the area. Oh to be young again and have red hair instead of white. Cheers JS

[Ernest Martin]

I was with Fyffes from 1967 until it's demise (1984) then worked in the London office when it was just ship management until 1986. I joined Barranca in 1979. When the company finished there was just the Barranca and Bayano left. They were just anchored at Cortes for 17 months full crewed. I stayed out for 16 months then came home. They were both towed to Texas for scrap around November 1984.