headline belfast 1959 til 1967

[Steve Mimnagh]

Hi Tilly,

Your post about Billy Gardiner,Billy was 2nd Mate with me on the Alfred Everard sometime around 1970,We
became very good mates then the last contact I had was sometime in the 1980s.If I can be of any further help let me know.

Regards,

Stevemim

[Tilly]

Hi Stevemi
Its not Brian thats enquiring about Billy Gardener, its me. Not for any particular reason I hasten to add. Also new his brother Cameron. Would love to know what happened to hom. Regards Tilly.

[brian kernaghan]

Hello grandpa WUFF !! sorry a bit slow coming back, glad to hear from you, all well with me , been living in Spain for many years. I normally look at www.shipnostalgia.com, there you can find Head Line under historic shipping lines. You can find me on www.oscarsierra.com itīs only been the thick side of 50 years!!
with best regards , and long memories, BK, aka the mouse

[patricia seaye]

Hi Brian,

I did reply to your email but it bounced back from your spanish address. Seen your company photo, your not looking to bad, although you've lost that Paul Simon look, but so has he. I'll pick my best photo taken fifty years ago and send it. We had some good memories from the Rathlin that only seem like yesterday, do you recall the 'night to remember' in Montreal, me in top bunk which was like a roller coaster that night, so much so I had to bunk down in smoke room. being the fellow you were you did offer to share. What about young Desi have you any idea where he might have gone? also Eric White and Harry Thompson, he was a real nice guy, is he still around. someone asked about Billy Gardener, last I heard of him was that he got a very badly broken arm. Michael Knigh ( beak) came to see me some time ago, he's a skipper on tug boats in N.Z. had an only son who was killed on a motorbike. Do you remember your special cargo hook? We've had a bad time with bushfires here, not far at all from where we live, except for that, all is well. We spend every weekend on the beach relaxing and partying.

Well Brian all the best,
good luck good health,
cabbin mate raymond.

[Steve Mimnagh]

Billy Gardner went on to be an airline pilot via a driving school,hav nt seen him for some years,great guy.

Regards,
Steve.

[brian skillen]

A very warm hello to Brian (Mouse) and Patricia Saeye LOL Mr Saeye was last seen living on the Antrim Road among the "Hob Nobs)
This is Brian Skillen whom you all knew as "Commodore" on the Inishowen Head, Roonagh, Fair,Carrigan,Torr Head.
Mouse and I were bunkmates (not literally). Brian was into racing Mini Coopers in the time of Paddy Hopkirk.
I still have photo`s of Brian and Raymond along with Roger Lever,Spike,Gothic in the famous Bee Hive Bar in Bootle Liverpool. They are in the house somewhere.
best wishes
brian

PS. Have also crossed words with Mike Alexander (also in photo)

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Raymond (not Patricia John haha!)
Would just like to give you a warm Welcome to this very good site!
Here you will find lots of info,good Crew and with luck also find a few old Shipmates!
So sit back,relax and just enjoy the trip!
Hope we will have you here for a long time!
A site truly worthy of the British Merchant Navy!
Cheers


Also"

If you would like to join in and have your Full name R Number and First Ship
Included in the Flag project then please pass it on to Mike Hall who is doing a Main Flag for all
to be displayed some time in one of the UK Museums!
Thank you

Please go to following Link and follow instructions there

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1967

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Brian Skillen
Would just like to give you a warm Welcome to this very good site!
Here you will find lots of info,good Crew and with luck also find a few old Shipmates!
So sit back,relax and just enjoy the trip!
Hope we will have you here for a long time!
A site truly worthy of the British Merchant Navy!
Cheers


Also"

If you would like to join in and have your Full name R Number and First Ship
Included in the Flag project then please pass it on to Mike Hall who is doing a Main Flag for all
to be displayed some time in one of the UK Museums!
Thank you

Please go to following Link and follow instructions there

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1967

[patricia seaye]

Hi Brian, nice to see your alive and well. Its been along time since we crossed paths, almost fifty years. We were both on the Fair Head and as I recall you give me my first unsuccessfull fishing lesson from the boat/deck in Chicago. You and I had motorbikes and we used to race them up and down the docks, I had the Honda and I'm not sure what your machine was, I also recall you went with a girl called Barbara Holland in Chicago. Yes, Brian was more into cars, I went with him on a test run / Dundrod course, he never slowed down coming into hairpins. I have been living in Australia for almost twenty three years now, and no I have'nt changed my name to patricia, thats the wifes' name. Any how it was good to hear from you, Raymond

[Robbo]

Hi,
I worked on the Roonagh in 1960, done three trips, Dec. - March 1961, as 6th Eng. the chief En. was the "Red Dean", you may remember him.
Regards
Robbo.