Geoffrey Young

[Geoffrey Young]

SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD

Full Name

geoffrey young

Discharge Book Number

R ******

Department

Deck

Your Rank/Rating

Cadet

Which Ships were you on and When

ss Cairngowan 1961

Notes:

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[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Geoffrey.
Welcome to the site hope you enjoy all the banter here. Did you go on at sea or was that your only ship? I was on the Cairnavon in 55 , did a trip to Canada for pit props.
Hope you stay and be part of a crew again.
Cheers Des

[cappy]

###just out of interest ...the cairnavon rang a bell and looking back through some family papers and old discharges i find .....my grandfather had 5 brothers all seaging ...one of them john cram was AB in the Cairncross ...ON104251 registered in newcastle ...reg tonnage 959 horse power of engine 130.....voyage to rosario.....AB.....sailed 16 ...12...1895 sunderland ....to rosario.....paid off 14...4..1896.....cardiff.....VG ....VG...i have a fair amount of these old discharges .....some for sail ......all very interesting....hope this is not boring but no doubt the same company a long time ago regards cappy

[Doc Vernon]

Welcome the site Geoffrey and thank you for listing details
Always nice to have new people here!
Hope you will find lots here to take your interest!
Enjoy!
Cheers

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Cappy.
Can't recall your Grandfather and his brothers I think a little before my time, but when I look at the dates not that much ha ha.
The Carnavon went went up on the breakwater in Newcastle I have pictures of her high and dry, they got her off
must have been a job in itself, I had just paid of so I wasn't to blame honest.
Cheers Des

[cappy]

Hi Cappy.
Can't recall your Grandfather and his brothers I think a little before my time, but when I look at the dates not that much ha ha.
The Carnavon went went up on the breakwater in Newcastle I have pictures of her high and dry, they got her off
must have been a job in itself, I had just paid of so I wasn't to blame honest.
Cheers Des

morning des it must have been that livepool fella .....cappy

[j.sabourn]

Would that be Cairn Line Cappy, 1 Howard Street, North Shields. I had been away 13 months on the Maratha Envoy an Indian Company, they phoned me up 2 days after I got home and offered me a job, when asked what they were paying he quoted a figure somewhat below what I had been getting which I told him. He said Ah !!! but we are a good family company and look after our own people. 6 months later they weren't in existence to my knowledge. The phone call would have been on the 23rd. March 1970 at about 0900 hrs. I was still in bed. having flown home from Durban via Joburg and the Canary Islands after an exhausting 13 month voyage which included a guarantee drydocking in Yokohama, plus a crazy Scouser mercenary in Durban. I was not amused being disturbed from my beauty sleep. I declined their kind offer and went and joined a ship that I shouldn't have so should have accepted the first offer, as a year later walked off a HK ship in japan. Such is life. The thing is do we learn by our mistakes, I don't think so. Cheers Good on your grandad he should be here now to put us all on the straight and narrow. JS

[cappy]

that was the same company john......he did 2 or 3 trips in her .....but this in the 1890s as stated in an earlier post ...it was a well known geordie company ....but sadly went the way of most if not all of the others........the old discharge papers are interesting to read ...as stated earlier one or two in sail.......all gone now regards cappy

[Gulliver]

Welcome the site Geoffrey and thank you for listing details
Always nice to have new people here!
Hope you will find lots here to take your interest!
Enjoy!
Cheers

Ah,I remember the time when I was a 'new people',Vernon !.....Happy Wave.gif..........Wheelies.jpg

Welcome Aboard Geoffrey !Welcome Porthole.gif

[j.sabourn]

Also welcome Geoffrey, I realize that Young is nearly as rare a surname as Smith, Brown or white or Gray. but on the off chance have you any rellies of a Capt. Young who served his time on the Baron line, was going to say boats then but know it would upset Ivan. Went right to the top but must have left them in the late 70"s, for the next time heard he was down in the Falklands with the invasion forces. The final time of catching up with his whereabouts was when he died up the Persian Gulf with a stated heart attack. He would have only have been about 50 then. He had a brother David and the three of us used to deliver newspapers for his fathers papershop in Whitley Bay. Is a long shot, but hey I had the winner up of the Melbourne cup last week. Regards JWS PS Davy/ Vernon I've just had a shower does that make me new. All ready to go now, just need a destination not beginning with H.