Words we will never use again.

[j.sabourn]

We can see now all those who had misspent youths. JS

[j.sabourn]

#17 Spanish Root to different people could mean different things. To someone having a Spanish girlfriend. Or to myself brings back memories of the bum boat men in Suez trying to sell you Spanish Fly. JS

[john walker]

the channels, paying off and travel warrant were great words to hear at the end of a voyage, in the days before flying out and flying home became the norm.

[Don Cook]

Danny's Bar was it Hamburg or Antwerp?

[Doc Vernon]

Just brings to mind the silly saying my dear late Bro used to have!
When he was under the Weather,he always replied with the saying! "Nuts to you"
Got him in a few jams I may add! LOL

[Doc Vernon]

Antwerp; Danny’s Bar was or still is??
Cheers

[John Gill]

Five Mark Alley
Schipper Straat......Skipper Street
The Mad House.
Happy Valley .....Campo Allegro
Navigators Den.
Sadie Thompsons.
Texas Bar.

Significantly Kong, all the above seem to be notorious foreign bars or whorehouses. That must have been some trip!

[Captain Kong]

Gilly
I was doing some research for a medical facility, sponsored by a Doctor Ross and Co. of The Seamen's Dispensary of Liverpool
UK.
I never once participated in the immoral activities that went on in those disgusting hostelries. Purely for Research, the things I had to do for that,
Yours Sincerely.
Captain Dong .

[Red Lead Ted]

With the ships of today carrying quick release lifeboats, And the lifeboats passenger ships carry, I would put my bottom dollar on any seaman today using a Sheepshank or even knowing what the hell it was, I don't think in my time I ever had to put one together if I did apart from running under the keel of a lifeboat I cant remember what for it must have been the least used of all the bends and hitches, If you wanted to shorten a gantline or whatever you simply cut it and put a back splice in it. Terry.

Here is one you will definitely never heard used again, A ball of Marlin.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#5 Can see you were up to the job Ivan and made arrangements to be back next morning, most forgot to come back, so must have quonto costa para nacha quatro noche. Then came back to the ship for more plateau, and a week later a jab. JS

Guess I was a lucky guy John, never ever needed a jab and always back on board in time to turn-to. One of the advantages of looking 12 when 16/17 is that the senoritas never wanted you to get into trouble, a lot of them used to make me coffee before pointing me in the right direction. A head of curly blond hair, blue grey eyes and nut brown tan did me no harm, but I suspect it was the two bars of'Yardleys' that was the clincher, not so much a case of 'he filled her soul with hope' more a case of ' he filled her hole with soap'