A few Ships in Sydney over easter

[Doc Vernon]

YININMADYEMI Thou didst let fall is a significant new artwork by Aboriginal artist Tony Albert to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who served in the nation’s military.

DSCN0154.jpg Hyde Park South

[Richard Quartermaine]

Thanks for your email Vernon and these pictures of my very changed Olde Home Town. Estelle and the Gang will love them too and remember their voyage to warm Nouvelles-Calédonie as winter is on the horizon.
Cheers, Richard

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Vernon.
Thanks for those shots of ships in Sydney, ah memories. Next time call into the old South Steyne on Darling Harbour and see my old mate Brian McDermott he runs a good ship,nice meals at reasonable cost, at least he did when I worked there 14 years ago.
One thing I wouldn't be volunteering for a job and finish painting the name on any of those ships.
cheers Des

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[happy daze john in oz]

Sydney harbopur with the coat hanger and opera house is one of a few ports that are interesting to sail to or from. Cape Town with the mountain in the background, Rio with the Christ, Hong Kong at night are also ports that look good when sailing.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Sydney harbopur with the coat hanger and opera house is one of a few ports that are interesting to sail to or from. Cape Town with the mountain in the background, Rio with the Christ, Hong Kong at night are also ports that look good when sailing.

Mostly because you were broke John and could start building up a surplus to pay off with!

[Captain Kong]

Some beautiful harbours here, from my last trip a few weeks ago.
Hong Kong at night, Bali, Moorea, Auckland and Sydney, Vernon and me,
Brian

[Richard Quartermaine]

Seventy years ago next January I left my home in Sydney on my first trip to sea. Here is the MV Lowlander in Sydney prior to docking in Newcastle NSW (Where I walked up her gangway with a letter from the Sydney Port Line office) and set off around the World with the next port of call being Pape'été, Tahiti. How different it was then as you will see from the photos of that time to what Brian and Vernon have kindly posted above.
A photo I also took a couple of years later when arriving in Sydney Harbour on the Adelaide Steamship vessel MV Manunda.
Pictures 1. Wharf at Pape'été 2. Crew members MV Lowlander 3. Sydney Harbour 1948 4. MV Lowlander at Sydney (no skyscrapers behind her) 5. My Certificate of Discharge before I got my British discharge Book.
Richard

[cappy]

Seventy years ago next January.
Richard

###happy days long gone richard ......regards cappy

[happy daze john in oz]

###happy days long gone richard ......regards cappy

Or in Mary's case hoppy days long gone.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Cappy. Those memories seem to get clearer and the latest dimmer. I am glad I took these photos and got interested in developing my own to keep at it. The Lowlander carried 24 passengers and they were all Aussie war brides going to New York. Here is the Crossing the Line ceremony near the Galapagos Islands.
Richard