Seafarers body CLOCK

[j.sabourn]

If remember correctly it went out in the morning and came back at night. Did the MOT classify that as seatime ?? Dont let cappy know you got home for your tea every night. Cheers John S

[robpage]

We sailed at 23:00 to Guernsey , we did a slow night passage , and got there around 7:30 left 8:30 arrived Jersey 9:30 left 11:30 !Cherbourg 12:30 Leave 13:30 back in Portsmouth at 19:30 . So each trip was 24 hours on followed by 48 hours off . I had a combined Class 1 / First class , and the sea time all counted , you were signed on ,even though you were 48 hours off sat at home . The 24 hours on was 10 stand bys , and all the joking apart the masters were pilots for all ports above as well as Weymouth , so had quite a raft of skills , there was only one Master Home Trade , all the other certificates of competency were full foreign going . With engineering certificated the SHP was part of the sea time qualifiers and when I was there they were around 12,000 HP , giving just over 20 knots . Bow thrusters were an essential. Too , some were quite hefty . The Earl class were all second hand , ex Scandanavian Ferries , The first one on the run was the 4 engined Earl Godwin ex Svea Drott , the next the Earl William ex Viking Iii Townshend Thoresen and the last Earl Granville ex Viking V Viking Line .

[j.sabourn]

Thinking back it may have been the evening I put the family on the ship and picked back up next afternoon. She sailed from a different part of the harbour outside the Naval Dockyard if memory is right. Cheers JS

[robpage]

The Ferryport is at the entrance to Portsmouth / Portsea Island next to HMS Excellent , the Isle of Wight Ferry next to HMS Vernon , the Dockyard is HMS Nelson , so from the dockyard gate you had a ten minute walk to the Ferry
Port , passing around ten pubs or so Maybe fifteen minutes if strolling

[j.sabourn]

Seatime... Cappy got most of his on the shields ferry running betwen the Jungle (N.S.) and the Mechanics in (S.S.) Then he was barred from the Jungle, so just stayed on Ferry all day. Beleive they may have let him back in the Mechanics for a quickie before they closed for the night. Cheers JS

[robpage]

I was on Dry Dock at Smiths North Shields , we had a Saturday off and took the Ferry across to go to the Fairground in South Shields , We lost the Chief on the Voyage across the Tyne , and got him back three or four hours later when we returned. He was stoking the boiler with coal and running the tiny Steam Engine

[happy daze john in oz]

When I retired I found it very difficult to get to sleep, the Silence was deafening.
I went to Liverpool for a trip on the Mersey Ferry. took my little tape recorder, I stood at the entrance to the engine room recording the sound of the deisel engines all the way to New Brighton and back.
Then played it at night when I turned in, What a difference, slept all night. Just like being back at sea.
Fortunately I was living alone at the time. by the time SHE moved in I had got used to the sound of silence
Brian.

When she arrives Brian there is no such thing as silence anymore.

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#16, And rightly so Happy Daze....mine is a poached egg on wholemeal toast

The last time I attempted to poach an egg the farmer chased me down the road.

[j.sabourn]

#38... Swings and Roundabouts, Swings and Roundabouts....Cappy knows all about that subject. JS

[cappy]

Seatime... Cappy got most of his on the shields ferry running betwen the Jungle (N.S.) and the Mechanics in (S.S.) Then he was barred from the Jungle, so just stayed on Ferry all day. Beleive they may have let him back in the Mechanics for a quickie before they closed for the night. Cheers JS

#########yes a grand job the old northumbria ........short trips......leave shields south 6 30......arrive shields north6 34 .......in bad weather took 30 seconds longer......but i was an officer .......yes ....cappy an officer.......i must have been the chief officer cos i was in charge of tying up forrard .........this was not easy work as i had to chuck a bight over a bit .....and then stand by to take the bight of the effin bit ....141 times a bleedin day each side......then met a girl called mary bless her now in fiddlers green doing the business ......so i gave up my life at sea after 2 days.......then went as galley boy on one of runcimans.....and exchanged my seaboots and oilskins for my potato peeler and pan scrubber.....ah the things that happen in a poor boys life

[j.sabourn]

Heard you were head barman on the Northumbria, serving the wine by passing around in a brown paper bag with deference, this is the true meaning of camouflage as a previous post. At what part of the voyage was it duty free, or was it free all the time and part of the service provided. Those were the good old days. Can we have them back.. Cheers John S.