Did we really impress the Ladies?

[Captain Kong]

Just found this on wikipwedia
I guess it says it all..................
Cheers
Brian

[alf corbyn]

We used to go to to a sally army place in Long Beach. they used to collect clothes from the film stars houses. we changed the labels and picked up shirts for 20 cents.

[John Arton]

Caapy's incident reminds me of a time in St. Johns N.B. where we used to discharge in the winter season. It was an absolute party place with on board parties every night going onto 0600 every morning.
The 1st trip junior engineer hooked up with a female journalist who was a true nympho, dragging him into bed at smokos, lunch, dinner times and every night, to such an extent that the 2nd engineer actually took her to one side and told her to lay off him as he was that shazzed out he could hardly lift a spanner. One lunch time I was passing down the outside alleyway and there was a group of dockers gathered around his port hole, peering in I sam that they were been given a live show as she had been so eager to jump him they had forgotten to draw the blinds and were treating all who wanted too a show of vigorous soixante neuf. After she had been told to lay off it for a while she would prowl the alleyways at night pouncing on any poor soul who happened to be around offering them wild sex, she was insatiable.
St. Johns at that time only had around three places where you could purchase and consume alcohol on the premises so any ship that had a bar was flooded with girls wanting a drink plus. We used to have huge two ship parties with the Manchester Faith as one of our engineers was ex. Manchester Liners, so it was the Faith one night, the Fir the next, with up to a hundred people partying like crazy. Some of the scenes I saw that trip would make a Soho lady blush, the strangest involving a tomato ketchup bottle being used whilst the boys were sitting round having their evening meal and not one of them taking a blind bit of notice of the show going on in front of them on the table.
rgds
JA

[cappy]

Caapy's incident reminds me of a time in St. Johns N.B. where we used to discharge in the winter season.........................

now that's the merchant navy I loved .....were else in thev50s and 60s could a young man be complete and be paid for iit

[Glenn Baker]

I just used to go to the Flying Angel Mission and watch Television, and have a cup of Tea, Little goody Two Shoe,s.
Matter of fact I wondered who finished up marrying all those very loose Ladys that frequented the Waterfront.
I accidently met one in Auckland a few years ago with her husband she told me to keep my mouth shut about the past, she was so perfect, so elequent, one would never have guessed. all the best Glenn

[John Albert Evans]

I must have impressed the one I met in 1960.(At the Lido in Prestatyn, North Wales.)
We are still together now, we celebrated out Golden Wedding Aniversay in June of this year.

John Albert Evans

I thought I'd add this photo, it was taken just after we met in November 1960....cora john 001.jpg

John.

[Charlie Hannah]

I joined the Flamenco one PSNC as First trip deck boy, the down below crowed was partly made up of 4 of my Dads old ship mates and i couldn't put a foot wrong or i'd get a clip on the earhole.I made up for it though first port was Havanna my four body guards were my Dads mates i of course had to drink coke were as they were all in to the rum and cokes,they all had ther own girls they had been seeing for donky's years.One of them got me out side and i was having a knee trembla when Billy K.(wont put full name upfor obious reasons)came out and caught us in the act.Boy did i cop it,all trip all i got was My old Mates lad scr-------* my girl,wait till we get back home your Dad will give it to you,Sailed with Billy's son years later we had a good laughp when i told him and remaind good mates for years.That was my introduction to the great life we had all those years ago.

[j.sabourn]

Charlie did you get into Cienfeguous very much while trading with Cuba. Cheers John Sabourn

[Lou Barron]

Home after my first trip on the D|Bedford sitting in the local air raid shelter flashing my MN Badge and telling a couple of young judys how i was beening a seaman and trying to to get my first bit of the hows your father .!941

[Lou Barron]

Still only a boy not yet 15