Words we will never use again.

[Roger Dyer]

Schooner rigged.......Blowing for tugs.......and "Keep 'er off the knuckle, Harry" (usually cried out by a 'Mud Pilot' to a shoreside 'fender-bearer' as a vessel was entering (or leaving) a lock or dock entrance. I've added the explanation not for former deck-crowd or bridge-officers amongst us, but for others who may be unfamiliar with the term).

Roger

[John Gill]

#65. Don't know about Latin America Roger, but I'm sure I stood behind an ageing bosun in Clarke's Shoe Emporium in Lord St Liverpool uttering the same request to an assistant.

[Ivan Cloherty]

"Keep 'er off the knuckle, Harry"

Roger

The most shouted words in the 1950's by Capt Horsefall, marine Supt of PSNC, always repeated by the deck crew fore and aft as soon as he had uttered them, don't think he ever realised they were extracting the urine

[Rodney Mills]

With appropriate gestures to the server, "You get for me dos sandwichios."

Rodney

[Neil Morton]

She's down by the a*se end.( a heavy sheila)

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Jim.
I met my future wife on the Southern Cross while emigrating to NZ, [not everyone jumped} she was leaning over the rail one day when I said those fateful words, "Stay like that and I'll buy you a new hat". Of course she didn't know what I meant, but it came up in later years and given the good memory she has, gave me a slap.
As for Terry's ball of marlin, as I looked at it I could smell it.
Lower me down I yelled at my mate from the top of the mast, Alby James had fallen off the main mast. Lower he did, I could see the smoke coming from the winch drum as I sped down at god knows what speed and hit the deck running.
Cheers Des

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[j.sabourn]

Gooseneck.... How many parts on a ship were named as this. can recall two at the moment when referring to parts of a derrick and ventilators. JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

Gooseneck.... How many parts on a ship were named as this. can recall two at the moment when referring to parts of a derrick and ventilators. JS

Probably meant something else in UCL

[Captain Kong]

Down the West coast of Africa,..........
`Ju Ju man he go fixam good for you, you go Die-o.` Mamio after I dropped a 7lb tin of Greengage Jam into her canoe for Flash for dash , and sank the canoe. two days later I fell off the mast and broke two legs and an arm.

.another popular saying in Nigeria..................
"Whats the matter for you, cant you want to , or don't you , or something".
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"Nkhruma never die, never die, never die, cos Ghana got no Queen" after independence of the Gold Coast.

,Brian

[j.sabourn]

Replying to another post brought it back to mind. On a 12 month contract and passing the 6 month mark. " Over the Hump" now all down hill. JS