World Cruise Anyone ??

[Doc Vernon]

Anyone Fancy a World Trip , going Cheap. Gees wish they had that sort of thing these days, John in Oz and Capt would be in their Elements! LOL



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[Des Taff Jenkins]

What if that was tarted up a bit and posted on the Facebook, you could make a fortune. Look out for scams.
Des

[j.sabourn]

Answered this but disappeared ....#2 what did you pay Victoria. In 1967 have posted before was ch.off.on a ship an old liberty ship converted for passengers a dozen but sometimes a bakers dozen, under the Liberian flag. Did 6 week round trip Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Bermuda , Puerto Rico, all down the Windward Islands , to Port of Spain Trinidad, after discharge of general cargo went to Chageramus same island to load Bauxite for Port Alfred and then back to Montreal to start all over again. Have many memories of some of those passengers one in particular who must have been my present age now. Had to go ashore and drag him out of the nearest cat house in PoS for the ship sailing , the girls didn’t want him to leave. What a fight to get him out. All the trip he used to wangle his way into my cabin for what he called his nightcap, so got his life story over and over again especially about his wife dying. I found out after his escapade in PoS his wife had died 25 years previously , he must have been nearly my age now, but what a constitution he must have had. Anyhow it was $100 US daily and if you wanted a cabin to yourself it was $200 US daily. Cheers JS

[Doc Vernon]

What if that was tarted up a bit and posted on the Facebook, you could make a fortune. Look out for scams.
Des

Thats where i got it from Des!
Cheers


It is dated 1926 Victoria .

[happy daze john in oz]

Back in the late 80's there was a Russian cruise ship that twice a year did a run to London.
Had a very good friend do one, he said it was excellent and not that expensive.

[j.sabourn]

#7 That is really cheap then. I can’t really believe it was so expensive on an old liberty ship in 1967. Maybe it was the services provided. The passengers were nearly all elderly retired people who had money, the bloke I described had had two drug stores in Halifax. The girls if that’s what one could call them , a lot were ex school teachers. maybe all were looking for a last fling ? Another old male passenger an ex doctor paid the $200 dollar a day for a double berth cabin to himself and it was noted the stewardess looking after him received a very large tip on the completion of 6 weeks. The only tip I ever got was “ be kind to your mother “ JS

[j.sabourn]

Those immigration hold ups are going to be worse now before they get better, if ever. Cheers JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

One thing I have noticed about passengers being interviewed on cruises they always seemed to be retired teachers, most must have been woodwork or metalwork teachers (no offence intended) as their use of the English language was deplorable. Yet when you see teachers being interviewed on other occasions they are always moaning about how poorly paid they are.

[cappy]

One thing I have noticed about passengers being interviewed on cruises they always seemed to be retired teachers, most must have been woodwork or metalwork teachers (no offence intended) as their use of the English language was deplorable. Yet when you see teachers being interviewed on other occasions they are always moaning about how poorly paid they are.

well ivan perhaps its the time per year they recieve there salary to the working days the actually turn to .....think it must be a soull destroying job sometimes ..but to actually see some....as js put it mighty oaks from acorns grow must be a great comfort to them ......sadly old peterson my great benefactor ...once stated capps .....you will be in the Forlorn Hope .......i never even new what he meant ...till years later seeing shaun bean as sharpe fighting the frogs in napoleans era did i latch on ....looking back i think he registered me correctly ......lol cappy

[Keith Tindell]

Not a world cruise as such, but this clip is the Athlone Castle in Capetown early 60s, notice how happy the crew seem. Film a bit hazy, but the boys bronzying takes me back to happy times, kt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dext3eLdN_c