Houlder Bros.

Hi alanat20
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

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1974

Hi Ursron
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

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1974

hi, I was on the oregis,dec 1966 to june 1967,joined her at Irlam steelworks,what a state she was in!however once at sea again heading for Narvic, she soon scrubbed up.Captain was a Captain Dean,who was quick to tell everyone I was no relation.I was chippy, bosun Luoie Borda [ maltese] my mate from my home town was Jimmy Sherbourne electrician [deceased].From there I went to the Tewkesbury, joined her in New York aug 1967,left her may 1968.

G'day dixie Dean and welcome to the site. If you care to list your ships with some dates you may find some who sailed with you. So sit back with a cold one and enjoy the voyage.:eek:

My very first ship in 1963 was the OREMINA in Port Talbot (Joined it at Margham Wharf in my spledid new Deck Apprentice uniform, much to the amusement of the crew!). Houlders had the OREMINA, ORIDIAN, OREPTON, OREOSA and I think two others. On the web somewhere. Wasn't one of them converted into a drill ship and fell over coming out of Newcastle? Happy days, I did three of them. Roll, I've never known anything like it since.

Remember Foxy well, I started my apprenticeship on the ore boats in 1963. The Chief Steward you mention, I recall a Paddy Regan who had a budgie wild in his cabin, it would hover in front of him and peck his lip when he said 'kiss', I met him on the Grange boats later.

Hi Gary.
I sailed on the ORELIA back in 1957.

Dave Williams(R583900)

THANKS for that im sure now it was the shaftesbury , my memory is poor , but i think i was on the shaftesbury in 1967 sailed from cardiff to liverpool to germany and other european ports we ended up in mombassa and had the most amazing time, i,ll never forget that trip. I was a galley boy , i,ve lost all records of the trip and forgotten the names of fellow shipmates . is there any way of finding details of trips that were made by ships.
IVE tried to trace 2 galley boys , seamus mcool from northern island alan pearce from the rhondda in south wales, we sailed on the gosforth on a nine month trip , dos any one out there know them.

Gavin bury - the other two were the Oregis and Orelia. The Oregis went on to another life in the oil business.

Hi Evan,
I have been very interested in the articles about Ore carriers. I was on the Canadian coast for 3 months running between Sept Isles and Montreal and certainly wished we had tin lids. We were an ordinary cargo ship with hatchboards and beams to strip every port so you can imagine how quick we had to be when loading in Sept Isles, it was a nightmare.The ship was "CAPE ADAN".
I was later on the Flatties and they all had tin lids, what a difference.
All the best
Ray. L Barry