A Heavy Lift

[Ivan Cloherty]

Long as You don't try to tell me. You were raising and lowering the Jumbo, and working any Cargo with them. In any Oz Port . I'd be interested to know too where You were a
Superintendent? Or Company concerned ? By Your tone. You wuuldn't have lasted long.at or with either

Cheers!
p.s .HEAVY Lifts. I was privileged to be picked-up a couple of times, to operate the 400 Tonnes Cranes. They don't come much heavier than that!

Don't know why your so vitriolic and apparently upset by my reply or 'tone' but your entitled to your view and you know nothing about my career and I nothing about yours so I would not deem to insult you about it.

[john walker]

Don't know why your so vitriolic and apparently upset by my reply or 'tone' but your entitled to your view and you know nothing about my career and I nothing about yours so I would not deem to insult you about it.

Spoken/written like a true diplomat

[Ivan Cloherty]

Spoken/written like a true diplomat

Thank you John

[robpage]

well said Ivan

[Ivan Cloherty]

well said Ivan

Thank you Rob

[Red Lead Ted]

Looks like something of { TRACEY ISLAND } To me john, The skipper is a guy called Capt Troy Tempest, Built for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Co. Terry.

[Les Woodard]

John S that is so correct about the MUA being so strong years ago and now that the greedy ones have managed to dilute them as much as they can just look at the conditions that foreign ships are crewed today. Ships are constantly coming into our local port only to find that conditions for crew as well as safety standards are so bad that no one is game to rock the boat so to speak. Has been instances where a ship has been impounded because of safety only to have it slip out of port under the cover of night. Do not tell me that money has not been exchanged as we all know a ship can not leave without some official knowing about it. This is a result of lots of people advocating that reducing the unions influence and leaving it to private company's will benefit the worker.

[j.sabourn]

Les the Union or assossiation as we used to call it was NUMAST Think it stood for National Union Marine Air and Sea Transport or something like that, now exists as an employment agency as far as I can see. Know that most of the offshore boats I was on apart from supply and towage, had no union representation at all, wages were what they wanted to pay and that was it. Union reps if tried to board when ship was in port were refused admission by office staff. Was never in port longer than 12 hours usually in any case. Never received a visit from health and safety whilst I was there, maybe have had by now been forced to change their ways re safety. Doubt very much the health has changed though. Conditions on such would never have been passed in this day and age in Australia, even though to a certain extent the MUA is not so strict as it used to be. Dont even know if the NUS in UK is still in existance, if they do are certainly keeping awful silent, as heard no statements made by them re shipping casualitys during the past couple of years. Cheers John S

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#17...Les I have been on a ship which has had a writ stuck on it, supposedly refusing us departing from the port. However it was at an Anchorage in Singapore about 1970, was also during the Vietnam war, I was the mate, I wont discuss the ship as have done so before, least to say she wasnt in too good a state seaworthy wise. However the master decided we were going and away we went never was any repercussions that I know of, the only repercussions were when I walked away from in Japan. Richard I beleive in one of his posts says the Warkworth had a writ placed on the mast up the St. Lawrence, this was a well found ship I assume it was maybe for non payment of light dues or maybe the Chandler hadnt been paid. The only thing where the money would change hands would have been at its next port of call, as sailing without clearance would have been big problems when trying to enter ship in at Custom house at the next port of call. Our next port of call was a port of refuge again and was Hong Kong. After this was almost Vietnam, but as the fighting going on ashore was within small arms fire distance we made ourselves scarce and managed to make Taiwan, after 3 attempts against the current in the straits finally made Japan, Where I took my services elsewhere.. Cheers JS