Esso's

Hi Brian,
Sorry you cant make Liverpool 3 Meet Up but glad you have other things to do. I do remember Jack Allan and his lovely wife Rita, if you are still in touch please send the our regards, Sue and I sailed with them. Jack was is a card and he dropped me right in it at the Victoria Street Office once. We were both visiting the Office and jumped into an empty lift to go up to the fifth floor and Jack pressed all the call buttons up to the twelfth floor and as we stopped at the first floor to pick up some office workers he jumped out leaving me in the lift with a load of stuffy ESSO Office workers looking very tiresome at me and all the red lights – it seemed to take an age to get to the fifth.
You are right Peter Russell has do well for him self since ESSO.
What is the name of brewery that your brother runs in Liverpool – is it the Baltic Fleet? I go up to Liverpool as often as I can mainly to the Match when I can get tickets.
Regards Steve R770014 South Derbyshire

Hi Brian, your name is very familiar.
I must have travelled on a couple of vessels with you in 76/77.
I was a deck cadet at the time.

Did a voyage on the Salisbury from dec 71 then she was down the dutch west indes up to north america then over to Amsterdam and back Great grew at that time mostly under thirty one of the better trips. I think she saw being sold shortly after that.

Was on many ESSO tankers went all over the place, Went to Japan on one Cant remember the name of the ship, Went from Bristol to Venezuela then through the Panama over to Yokohama then onto Kobe down the Gulf and back home , Had about 2 to 3 weeks in Japan very nice.
Wiggy

I was on the Wandsworth in `62 and we had 4 to a cabin then, but she was a happy dingbat and enjoyed my time on her, Pat Lyons.

sailed on the esso guildford 66-67 joined her in malta paid off in le-harve HATED IT cheers clancy

Hi Steve ,
Was with ESSO 78-84 , Hibernia,Scotia,York , Warickshire, etc . Young lad and it made a man of me . Some good memories and many laughs . Would those old characters survive today ?? It seems to be very pc today . Got married and had to leave .
Good luck ,
Stewart

Hi ,
Remember Gill well , he was the Purser on the Hibernia on my first trip . A gentleman through and through !!
Stewart

Hi Stewart
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Esso means SO. (Standard Oil) The story goes that some guy was told to paint a sign "SO" and in his ignorance painted "Esso". It looked good and the company made it their logo.
Was on the engine room plates when the Durham blew up. To this day I can still feel the pressure of the deck plates on the soles of my feet as she reared up.
Have many happy memories of Aruba.
Was on one vessel ( forgot which one ) and we sailed from Aruba to Japan. Afterwards the Company was inundated with requests for transfer to "The Japan run". And by golly my next vessel (joined in Bremerhaven) was a trip from Mina to Japan
Actually circumnavigated the world on our trip Aruba-Japan as we returned via the Malacca Straits and Gulf to Fawley