Your photo in your discharge book

[Richard Quartermaine]

Where's the black eye patch Captain?
Richard

[robpage]

I thought he was auditioning for the job of posing on the front of the old Players Navy Cut cigarette adverts

[cappy]

I thought he was auditioning for the job of posing on the front of the old Players Navy Cut cigarette adverts

or old shag

[happy daze john in oz]

or old shag

No, no that is what he did. But looking once more at my photo I now realise tha most of the photos in discharge books are fraudulent. My picture shows a guy with hair and a very smooth complexion, I think thye might have had some dogy film in them days.

[Captain Kong]

All the young ladies used to like my beard, Sometime we stuck like Velcro.
Cheers
Brian.

[cappy]

All the young ladies used to like my beard, Sometime we stuck like Velcro.
Cheers
Brian.

######how low can you get

[happy daze john in oz]

Oh Brian 'the real you' you should have said you are a chamelian that would have stumped them. You look like one of the great old English actors can't think of his name at moment but was in a lot of the B/W UK movies of the 50-60's always with the beard.
Ivan that is so funny because your name is Ivan they have a huge amount of Russians in US so have they considered all with that name communist agitators silly beggars.
I do not recall ever using my passport when at sea always the discharge book.
Now well for some years the US use 'iris recognition.' maybe just for regular visitors anyway for me it started about 10 years ago it is great never a hassle at all.

English actor, Justin Robertson, or was it Justin Time?

[Captain Kong]

English actor, Justin Robertson, or was it Justin Time?
.
. Are you thinking of James Robertson Justice, ?
He was a Second Engineer on my old ship, the good ship `GEORGIC` then he went into films.
before my time of course.
Cheers
Brian

[gray_marian]

#29, Mmm, Bit of a lad the bold James Robertson Justice!!

[Neil Morton]

My photo dated 1955 shows a miserable sod who looks like a spoiled brat trying to grow a Tony Curtis hair style. Twenty years later whilst en route back to Oz after a short holiday in UK I had my passport stolen in Singapore so I was unable to board the aircraft carrying me home.
Luckily I had my discharge book with, blessed if I know why.
I was whisked off to the office of the airport police who called the immigration dept.The immigration bloke looked at the discharge book with evident knowledge of such documents as merchant seamen are common travelers to Singapore. The 20 year old photo was not a great deal of help however, the bloke said," take your glasses off, don't smile and pull your hair down on your forehead." It worked Ok and I was soon on the plane.
The Aussie immigration guys took much longer to let me through. They don't seem to be quite so thorough these days judging by the people I see on the streets.

Oh by the way James Robertson Justice stayed in a Hotel I once worked in and the characters he played on screen were exactly the pompous person he was in real life.