loggings

Logged and lost five days pay in total for being back one hour prior to sailing from Cape Town on Friday. A police notice had been put out by the skipper as i was so late. All because of a bottle of Mellow Wood and some frilly knikers.

You were found out John,next time take them off your head before embarking....:hair_raising:

In 1949 my brother almost missed his ship, Vancouver City as it sailed from Liverpool, He was logged a days pay,
He joined as the ship was going through the locks around midnightish. Meanwhile there had been a double Murder in Liverpool and the Police had checked all ships that were sailing and he had been reported missing just before they let go and moving to the River locks where he lept on board.
He knew nothing about it.
Meanwhile I was home alone baby sitting my younger brother, he of the, Master Mariner and Master Brewer, fame.
Parents at the movies, pre TV days, The front door was smashed down, CRASH, The house was full of men running about,up and down stairs, The Detective Inspector Balmer of Liverpool grabbed me by the throat and slapped me around the face with his brown leather gloves. "Where is he, we want him for murder, " I wet my knickers.
Meawhile my brother, who only came home to get a last leg over with his girl friend was enjoying a trip to Japan,
Then there was a very long long story which only ended in 2004, a man had been hanged and another got ten years in Wakefield, and it took all those years to clear their names and innocence. 55 years.


Cheers
Brian.

Jeez Bob that would have been a bit rich to log you two weeks, extraordinary be interesting to hear what others have to say about biggest ever logging they knew of. I never heard of that stiff a logging & I saw as well as got logged a few times. Even on a BA flyer once where we missed the ship at Canneries. Out of our minds we werehow we got to the quay do not know, somehow we got a little boat to take us out to the ship or maybe someone else did? The had hove to for us...can just imagine the old man on the bridge doing his nana, anyway had to climb up the Jacobs ladder, what a shambles had the passengers & deck crew in hysterics but not the old man just no sense of humour..... How we did not fall into the drink I do not know. Were taken to CO for much bollicking, not too sure what the log was but not more than a couple of days I am sure. Ah the first of many that trip but hey it was worth it! Did not get hang overs in those days either. Richard

Capt. Kong that is a hairy story & you just wet your knickers.....That Inspector Balmer sounded like the Sweeny guys, at least the gloves would have been calf leather Capt. Kong (: Ah none of that today, look at the rabid cleric who as again won his case to stay in Blighty, mind blowing. The one that got hung & the bugger who got ten years would have been irritated, well the latter anyway. Did anyone actually get correctly found guilty? The getting aboard vessels at the locks seemed to be quite common in London & I did it in Antwerp once I recall.
Sometimes you look back on those days & as stupid as we often were, & we were, it was an innocent time too. How often we nearly got killed or could have on many I suggest. Or am I looking back through those rose tinted glasses of time? Richard

Hi Richard,
One man confessed to the murders, he had Rose Heilbron, Britains first woman KC, to defend him, She was good, She got a NOT GUILTY Verdict and he was released,
Now Balmer was having a daliance with George Kelly`s girl friend so George was in the way and so Balmer framed him and another lad, Charles Connolly, and they were both charged with the murders.
Rose Heilbron KC defended George Kelly, he was found GUILTY and she also lost the appeal, George Kelly was hanged three weeks later. Charles got ten years in Wakefield.
I became a good friend with Charles and got the full story of Police Corruption just to clear the case and it also got rid of George Kelly so he could keep up his daliance with his girl friend.
I met a Liverpool man in Melbourne seven years later who claimed to have killed the two men in the Cameo Cinema in Liverpool.
I beat him up but unfortunately didnt find his name before he legged it.
At the Court of Criminal Appeal in London in 2004, my statement told of this episode, the case was reviewed and they were proven not guilty. with a lot of other evidence dicovered by George Skelly and a friend of Charles Connolly, Lou Santangeli, a man who always believed that Charles was Innocent and dedicated a lot of time trying to prove it..
After the case a woman from London wrote to George Skelly saying the man in Melbourne was her brother and she always knew he was the killer, he disapeared to Australia, and my description of him was the same man.
Charles always said that Balmer was the only man he knew who commited the Perfect Murders, he got the State to execute them.
He was also involved in the Cranbourne Road Murder in Liverpool, Known as the Burns and Devlin case,
Two young lads who were caught in a warehouse in Manchester whilst robbing it were charged by Balmer of killing a lady in Liverpool on the same night. The case was almost identical to the Cameo Murders, A criminal and a Prostitute in each case were paid to give evidence in both trials. They were both hanged side by side, in Walton Gaol. Liverpool.
Exellent Book, I am in it, Cameo Conspiracy, by George Skelly on AMAZON. very , very interesting story of Liverpool in those days and the characters on Lime Street. a classic book.
All that because ar` kid was logged on the Vancouver City.
Cheers
Brian.

I refuse to bring my history up, My book was over the counter in the Pool Mann island with me awaiting a knock on the door ,Now or never............. More times than Stirling Moss was Terry. :rolleyes:

That wouldnt of been the Exmoor was it Les. I remember when 2nd. Mate there, paid off Liverpool and think there were 11 double DRs. May be wrong in number, but know there were quite a few. Regards John Sabourn.

No it was the Port Macquarie on a Manz run. So many ended up with VNC's and reports from the union to the pool that no action was taken against any of us when we finally got back home. Did hear that there where only about five or six of the entire crew that finished the trip. Yes even the upper deck skinned out.

I managed (I think) 26 days loging on the orcades in 1970, plus a Double DR. After Missing/jumping ship in Aukland The thing that allways annoyed me was the DR for ability. Did anyone ever get a single DR or Good ?