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21st January 2010, 06:38 PM
#1
Houlder bros
i worked for houlder bros from 78 to mid eighties good memories
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21st January 2010, 08:01 PM
#2
Welcome!
Hi Drew T
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
If this applies to you then please do send in your details!
Note Well
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!
We need your names to get the New Flag full,so please do respond!
Thank you
Vernon (castleman)
Please go to following Link
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1974
Or reply to me in person! Via Private Message Link above below I will pass on the info!
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/p...?do=newpm&u=18
If any new Members or old ones too want a bit of info on the Flag Projects please
Go to the following Links where you can see Pics and Write ups on this subject!
Thanks
http://www.merchant-navy.net/gallery...ry.php?cat=558
If you have already done this then please accept my apologies!
Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website
R697530
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22nd March 2010, 11:28 PM
#3
hello Drew, dont know if you remember me but i sailed with you all those years ago, cant remember which ship but i remember you. i was second cook and bottle washer at the time (Paul Dickinson) i think we may have had a few beers together back then.Like you said "good tmes".
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23rd March 2010, 02:45 AM
#4
Welcome!
Hi Paul D
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
When page opens Click on Contact info on Right and on dropdown list select
Send a message via Email to Mike Hall
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/member.php?u=8
Alternatively you can send your details to me as well and i will pass them on to Mike for you
Thanks
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/member.php?u=18
If any new Members (or old) would like more info on the Flag Projects please click on the following Link!
Thank you
http://www.merchant-navy.net/gallery...ry.php?cat=558
Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website
R697530
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23rd March 2010, 04:52 AM
#5
G'day Paul and welcome to the site. See you have found one ex mate, do you have a complete list of all your ships maybe some dates as well? If you do and care to post them here you may well find some more who knew you. So sit back witha cold one and enjoy the voyage.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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23rd June 2010, 01:59 AM
#6
Happy Days
Hellow Drew,
You probably wont remember me...I was galley boy on the Humboldt in 1981...you gave me my first spliff..and thus begun 10 years of partying..Im a deck officer now with Gulf Offshore...the cook was Alec Tate(spud)...worked with a few years ago on a dredger...the store keeper was Jimmy Callow from the Isle of Man...
Happy days m8...Pete Tinsley
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23rd June 2010, 07:52 PM
#7
welcome!
Hi Pete
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
If this applies to you then please do send in your details!
Note Well
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!
We need your names to get the New Flag full,so please do respond!
Thank you
Vernon (castleman)
Please go to following Link
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1974
Or reply to me in person! Via Private Message Link above below I will pass on the info!
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/p...?do=newpm&u=18
If any new Members or old ones too want a bit of info on the Flag Projects please
Go to the following Links where you can see Pics and Write ups on this subject!
Thanks
http://www.merchant-navy.net/gallery...ry.php?cat=558
If you have already done this then please accept my apologies!
Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website
R697530
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16th September 2010, 12:20 AM
#8
My 1st ship was the Mable Warwick.. Iron Oar Carries, Houlder Bros Ltd, joined in Bidston Dock Birkenhead,what an experiance,done 8 years and i tell you,they were the best years of my life, met loads of good mates. Miss them good old days..
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16th September 2010, 06:17 AM
#9
G'day gary and welcome to the site. Do you still have a list of the ships you sailed on, maybe with some dates? If you do and care to post them on site you may well find some who sailed with you. So sit back with a cold one and enjoy the voyage.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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16th September 2010, 08:17 PM
#10
Houlder Bros.
Hi to all you ex Houlders men I was on the Oregis (1958) Port Talbot home port.Trips to many places,but did any of you ever go to Poti on the Black Sea?Russia was a strange place to go to in the 50's and a strange place it was!
Five of us decided to get a £3.00 sub each,we went ashore looking for a bar,we passed this Russian guy staggering and singing we thought we're on the right track.Given that these "Peasant's"were earning coppers we thought that we were well in with our £3.00.each.We went into this place there was a four piece ochestra playing,we were served a shot of something each."I'l get this boys" I said,the waitress took my £3.00 and then proceeded to take the £3.00 off the other four.We tried to protest,she brought over an a Abacus pushed the beads all over the place,that was the price.The boys walked back to the ship skint and sober.
The next day people came down and took us all to this place which was the equivelent of a Seamans Mission.For some reason they kept on insisting that we sang "Oh My Darling Clementine" after that they had us playing "Musical Chairs" (all this without a drink)When I look back on all these hairy a*** e
fireman and sailors trying to win a game of "Musical Chairs" I often wonder what were these Russians upto.
There was a massive library in this place and we were invited to take as many books as we wished.I was onlly a lad at the time so I was'nt realy interested.I took one book which I still have.it is a volume of a full set which I am sorry now that I did'nt take the full set.This book and set is all the communications between Stalin,Churchill and Roosevelt during the 2nd World War.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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