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In March 1954, I was on the New Zealand Star,in Auckland, we picked up two DBSs, One worked down below as a Greaser and the other worked on Deck, they signed on on full pay. They were being deported.
In December, 1954, I was deported from Port Antonio, Jamaica, on the same ship I had missed three months earlier. I was signed on as Supernumery at one shilling a month and had to work on day work on deck, I got my shilling in Avonmouth, the lads had a tarporlin muster for me and I got a train voucher off the Union back to Liverpool.. Two Jamaican Stowaways also had to work on daywork.
I guess different ships, different longsplices.
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After docking in Londen early December. All I had to wear was a light summer shirt and jeans.
Sure was cold.Think I got my gear, discharge book and rail pass, from the union office.
Met some old shipmates who dragged me to the Round House.
Got home days later.
For some strange reason, my fiancee dumped me.
Den.
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I came back to UK as a Passenger ( DBS) on Two PassengerLiners after having been torpedoed in the Indian Ocean in 1944
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Came back DBS after being deported from Oz. Although by that time we had just moved to the new discharge books without the DRs and VGs etc. Signed on as S'numary and was told emphatically I was not allowed to work by the Old Man. Still did a bit of cleaning round the accommodation so as the guys would buy a few beers at night. Anybody ever get a DR?
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I came home DBS on the tintagel castle from mombasa to newcastle, i wasa given a trainvoucher to london, that was in 1962 , i had jumped of off a bp tanker got fed up running in and out of the suez canel ,stayed in mombasa about 6 weeks waiting for a ship to the uk, didnt get any money from that ship i was passenger ,got a few quid a week while i was in mombasa i carnt rember who i got it from but the girls looked after me, i went back there about 4 years ago on holiday, and they are still living in shanty towns loads of tin hut, not much has changed in 40 odd years
