Was anyone a Cunard Yank??

[Captain Kong]

No Don,
It is knackered as I am. It stopped a long time ago but I was always reluctant to throw it away.
Memories I guess.
Cheers
Brian.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Not a Cunard Yank but Port Line was Cunard anyway...

Easter 1950 - sporting a DA, thick sponge soled brothel creepers that would cause a champeen skate boarder of nowadays to fall a**se over tit on a wet pavement and a ticket on the Golden Arrow to Paris to see a topless Dorothy Lamour in "Aloma of the South seas". Blimey! Curves you'd never get the chance to see on the Golden Arrow end of the Fleche D'or.

Richard

[Richard Quartermaine]

New York, March 1947, 16 and 2 weeks 'old', from Sydney, to Tahiti, Pitcairn, past the Galapagos Islands, Panama, Curacao, a whopping great storm off Cape Hatteras and up the Hudson to Hoboken, NJ. You couldn't have knocked the grin off my face with a cricket bat! I'm second from the left.
Richard.

[Duke Drennan]

What an experience for a 16 year old, the rest of us too at the same age. These days, they're still being breast fed at that age.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Leaving the SS Gothic in March 1953 I thought it would be a good idea to visit my mother's brother in Toronto to where he immigrated after being demobbed after the first world war. It was great - I stayed for nearly three years. Anyway, I was lucky enough to get a passage on the QE to New York from where I took the train to Toronto.

Here are some pics related to the voyage. Maybe one of you were on that voyage and knew the deck steward I photographed.

Richard

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[Richard Quartermaine]

Here are some more photos. Incidentally, I saw The Duke of Windsor was on the wing of the Bridge as we sailed into New York.

Violin Please - "Ahhh! Those were the days my friends"

Richard

[Captain Kong]

Thanks for the memories Richard. It can never happen again
I think the 50s were the best years for us. we thought it would never end , but it did.


Cheers
Brian

[leratty]

Capt. Kong, yes true 'the last of the seafarers' I was so lucky to come in on the end or twilight of the era. One to be remembered with great fondness & some great, ships & friendships formed, even to day we can see each other & it is as if we have only been away a short time. Those I see are but few now, one in Aus, he emigrated, who has gone I reckon Troppo. Just dropped out lives in the bush, sees no one, communicates with only his children sits a vegetates, a true grumpy old man.

[Keith Tindell]

truly remarkable era, pick and choose your ships, home trade in the summer if you wished, then fg somewhere warm. Didnt always pan out, i remember one trip to the good old Med that went wrong, straight through the Med , into the Black sea to Bulgaria and up to Yalta, froze my poor little nuts off, and no where to go ashore. I am still in contact with a few old shipmates, by email, as they are spread far and wide now. We can however live with good memories, much better memories than if we had worked in a factory or whatever. KT

[Ron B Manderson]

I have a dvd called "the cunard yanks" if you need one Brian.
Ron the batcave