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    Quote Originally Posted by colin hawken View Post
    i remember sandy mac nab.he always told us he came from aberdeen,glasgow. During the suez crisis they stopped supplying british ships with searchlights for night time canal passages. needless to say,we didn't get a searchlight.
    hi col, i had completly forgot about the flippin searchlights. When on the wheel in dust or mist it did make it worse. What about those plimsoles or slippers made out of canvas and soles cut out of bicycle tyres, if they started to drop to bits you could sew them up again with the old palm & needle.......great days........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Albert Bishop View Post
    I wonder if anybody else noticed that after Nasser took over the canal, the general standard of living seemed to have improved, Somehow all the locals seemed a bit better dressed, More suits in place of the old white nighties.and a general feeling of more prosperity? However they were still a bunch of robbing B*******. That didn't change. Cheers Albi
    Remember going down the canal back in about 64. Nasser was on a large Yacht entertaining the Russian president, Kruschof I think. The amount of armed vessels around the canal entrance was quite amazing.
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    Great days indeed Tom.

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    #20 Still got one in the China Cabinet Graham P. JS
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    Jock Mcgregor`s fresh water boat he spoke fluid Arabic

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    Quote Originally Posted by philipmthompson View Post
    Does anyone remember George Robee,in Port Said ,and i think it was Indian Joe at the other end,they didnt half sell some crap but it all looked great as a boy,I remember i swapped most of my clothes for a load of Trinkets,photograph albums,penants and a photo of the ship,i should have been warned what to expect.PHIL
    HI Phil Yes I remember George Robbi he could speak in many british accents, Scouse .Geordie.and Cockney, aboard the Bradford City we used to haul there boats on board and take the through the canal to Suez I bought a german knife from him and still have it.R73039.

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    I wonder if the descendants of George still run the business?
    Though the only ships likely to stop there would be cruise ships, cannot see any commercial ones there now.
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    Vernon,
    Your age is slipping in , last year that container ship went aground. ::: or was it the year before Mmm.
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    #36 Wasn’t it George Robey to be correct ? JS
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    John.
    Just saw the article and pictures of that Russian bloke taken by a shark in the Red sea, must have been mad as hell for him and his girl friend to go swimming there, she was lucky the sharks family weren't around. I remember waiting to go through the Canal at Suez, and as we were at anchor and we were surrounded by about six big sharks with bigger teeth than our Bondi ones. The article surmised that he was an absconder from joining the Russian Army, his father watched from the beach.
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