Andania

[Stuart Henderson]

I do believe the ocean bed from Glasgow to New York, Boston, etc was littered with empty premium Scotch bottles !!!

Yes along with empty (of course)Red Barrel & Barclay beer cans it must or would be a regular highway if the seas drained away

[happy daze john in oz]

Now I know why the seas are rising. Nothing to do with global warming, it is all the crap we put out for BOT wash up and other.

[Captain Gordon Whittaker]

Nothing new in looting then! It seems to be somehow "Legal", if it is stolen from cargo. Strange morals. Surely it is still theft ?

[Captain Kong]

That is why containerisation came in.

[Dafydd M Edwards]

It has been great to read about Cunard's ex-Silver Line ships. As an apprentice on the 'Asia' in the early sixties I was involved in 'ensign dipping duties' as we passed on the Thames. I sailed on the 'Asia's final voyage before she was sold to Taiwan, and transfered to the Alaunia, sailing out of KGV, there I discovered the 'dangers' of sailing on the whisky run.
Whilst an apprentice I also sailed from Liverpool on the Brescia, the then new Ivernia, Parthia and Saxonia, and also the Lycia. The Lycia was a 3,500 tonner built for the Med. run, great I thought, no more North Atlantic for a while! Wrong, the first port of call was Montreal, thence up the St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to Chicago!!!
It would be great to hear from anyone who remembers these ships, and in particular from a Barry Hird, my fellow apprentice on many of these long gone ships.
Dafydd/Ted Edwards.

[Stuart Henderson]

It has been great to read about Cunard's ex-Silver Line ships. As an apprentice on the 'Asia' in the early sixties I was involved in 'ensign dipping duties' as we passed on the Thames. I sailed on the 'Asia's final voyage before she was sold to Taiwan, and transfered to the Alaunia, sailing out of KGV, there I discovered the 'dangers' of sailing on the whisky run.
Whilst an apprentice I also sailed from Liverpool on the Brescia, the then new Ivernia, Parthia and Saxonia, and also the Lycia. The Lycia was a 3,500 tonner built for the Med. run, great I thought, no more North Atlantic for a while! Wrong, the first port of call was Montreal, thence up the St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to Chicago!!!
It would be great to hear from anyone who remembers these ships, and in particular from a Barry Hird, my fellow apprentice on many of these long gone ships.
Dafydd/Ted Edwards.

Hello Ted,
Sailed on all the ships you mentioned except brescia. I was called "George" Henderson and I was Chief Steward with Cunard from 61 to 1972,beforethat I was 2/Stwd on Alsatia. I was on a Great Lakes trip on Lycia as C/S August to Oct 1964 according to my dis/bk. Remember the press coming aboard in Chicago as it was when the Beattles were starting on their cliumb to fame and of course Lycia was registered in LIVERPOOL. Half the crew claimed to be Beattles family members or close associates when talking to reporters though most i recall talked with cockney accents....The Master that voyage was Capt James.Sailed on Asia to as C/S and see my last trip was ended in May 63, cant remember if that was the end of her definately handed one over to Taiwan but not sure if Asia or Alsatia/
The name of your fellow apprentice Barry Hird certainly rings a bell in my tattered old memory.... They were certainly great days. How about C/Offs Peter Brush,Peter Lawley or Brian Newcombe ? Do you know any of them ?
Stuart (George) Henderson P/CS