Donkey's Breakfast.

[Colin Pook]

Hi J. The tug company I was with done away with sheets etc. and isued everyone with sleeping bags. Some of the deckies cut feet holes in the bottom, and when they were called out at night for a job, they simply put their shoes on and went up on deck as they were. If the ship was delayed for say an hour, they would simply lay down on the deck and go back to sleep!!!!
Colin.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
When I was on one ship we slept in an open forecastle, six seamen two to a watch, trip was to Canada in winter, don't know about donkeys breakfast but I think it would have had more in a bag of straw than what was in our bunks, and what with the anchor chains clanking and water running down the unlined bulkheads it isn't the way they go to sea these days.
Cheers Des

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