Shore passes

[Frederick Lacey]

Hi Bob, you've just made an old man very happy, I haven't lost it after all,
signed on Victoria Docks 24th Jan .55 signed off Victoria Docks 31st July .55.
have just started crying again, still can't remember going to New York on th "Port Macquarie" !!!!!!!

Thanks again. Fred.

PS. Why can't the Yanks do their dates in English.

[Red Lead Ted]

This will stir the memories Regards lads Terry {LATE UNCLE} He was apparently an Alien

[Stuart Henderson]

I still have full page shore pass issued in Argentina in about 1952 when we sailed up the R>Plate to some small oil berth on the Panamanian flagged Esso Syracuse. It has photo,finger/thumb print and looked very official. Even used it somewhere entirely different as proof of identity,think it was signed by Panamanian consul/
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[John Albert Evans]

I've still got my two landing passes to allow me into the Argentine. (BA and La PLatta)Full set of fingerprints and photograph 1957/1958.
I wonder if they are still valid

John Albert Evans

[Roger Dyer]

I remember during the early 60's, the Russians used to issue visiting seamen with a card, just in case they should wish to go ashore. Not everyone took them up on the offer....I wonder why ? Still remember my name on the card - Pozep Diep.

.......Roger

[happy daze john in oz]

Have any of you had a visa added to your pasport of late? On our last cruise we had to have one for Indonesia. Not sure where or how they make them but it was almost as thick as the passport itself. Stuck on one of the pages, not only is it thick but bigger than the page.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
In front of me I have three passes which would have been all I had as I have kept so much stuff. One is a pass to the great USA where I was required to depart from the US on the next sailing of the named vessel British Captain. In no event is stay authorised beyond 29 days. would that mean that if the ship didn't sail I would get deported???.
The other one is for the Port of Genoa, my identity card was my discharge book number.
The third is for Newcastle NSW for the tanker Baron Kilmarnock where I'm permitted to board her.
I have vacination certificates from all over even got my eye site test reciept of 5shillings when I joine the pool.

Cheers Des

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[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, one for our most senior shipmates who were in The U.S.A. or Canada wartime , on covoys or not .Do you still have your shore pass?

[Alex Macdonald]

The only shore pass i have is for Argentina,as far as i remember all passes were handed in before the
ship sailed.Tiwan if it was your first visit they would not issue a pass,but one was ready next time you
went back.Armed guards on the gangway top & bottom,plus a curfew 10 PM.however afew of us went
ashore found a nice bar and settled down for a bevy 10 PM came & went i think aslong as we were
buying the barman was happy but when we said we better get back he said no can do curfew so he
locked us in,well we said more drink which he served but it must have been a mickey finn because not
one of could remember a thing until he woke us up in the morning and said go work.
I do have a shore pass that was my uncle's for Alexandria City issued by the Port Police dated 1945.

[John Callon]

Burma in the early 60's was a nightmare of a country to get into. Every crew member had to have 6 copies of a crew landing card together with a photograph of the holder. 5 Copies were retained by the immigration in Rangoon and one copy for the holder. God knows what they did with all these landing cards is anybodys guess. All of the landing cards were prepared in the Pursers Bureau on the outward bound voyage. Regarding the USA landing cards known as an I94 before any vessel arrived in its first US port it was it was necessary to have a crew list which had a visa stamped on it which was obtained from the last port of departure for the US at the US consulate in that port. So in reality the immigration officers knew who was arriving on the ship before the vessel docked. The crew list was compiled on official US Immigration forms and submitted in triplicate.
Regards
John