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    You must have been going out with the wrong type of girl Vernon. I wonder why. Cheers JWS

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    Only the Best JS lol
    But they sure cost us !! Cripes!
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    How many used the old Seamans Mission in Southampton I bet quite a few.

    (Jellicoe Memorial Sailors Home) Seaman's Mission

    I used it most all the time and found it quite good,nice Grub and very Friendly most times
    only drawback was the size of the Rooms,a little small but was just for dossing down anyway!
    Had a nice Pool Room and Library!
    Very handy to the Town too not at all far !
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    Hi Bob,
    Glad to see you are still kicking along. Your old man was right and would even be extra right today, people do not open their eyes to what is happening around them. Look at the kowtowing too Germany by Cameron in Britain only 70 years after the war that killed millions.
    Cheers Des
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    Nice to see you are still breathing ( unaided I hope)
    The lessons learnt early in life hold better to day than ever before, it would be nice to have the chance to say thank you, to all the left wingers I have come across over the years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cappy View Post
    ##now thats interesting charlie in shields it was always 2 bob in the pound.....when you think .they must have been on a canny screw......regards cappy ...how is skeeter doing ..cappy
    Skeeter doing ok Cappy wish i was half as fit as him.2Bob in the pound better deal than we ever got. Old Charlie always tried to con you in to spending your advance note in his shop.Crafty old sod.Cheers Cappy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Vernon View Post
    How many used the old Seamans Mission in Southampton I bet quite a few.

    (Jellicoe Memorial Sailors Home) Seaman's Mission


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    I stayed there once and kid you not the sheets on the bed had been starched. Some bright spark had obviously had too much in the JB the night before.
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    Did anyone ever see or was it never introduced after the 66 seamans strike what was being called Captive time. Where if shore leave was not granted captive time came into the equation where there had to be a payment whether overtime or other means I don't know. As left UK shipping shortly after and when came back never saw being used. The same as Loss of sleep seemed to disappear sometime whilst away on foreign vessels. Loss of sleep would be a big earner on todays shipping as is in most cases is impossible to get 8 consecutive hours off in every 24 hours. JWS
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    I doubt loss of sleep would ever had made muster for catering crew with UCL. You would be lucky to get 6 hours at once on them. Certainly officers with four on eight off found it hard to get seven in a row.
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    Know it was hard to flog the sheets if anyone scrutinized too closely. e.g. If the chippy was on overtime until 2000hrs and was called out again at 0200 hours to drop the hook maybe taken half an hour. he would have 2 hours loss of sleep plus 2 hours overtime which was the minimum for a call out which would be 4 hours overtime for releasing the hand brake on the windlass and going back to bed. In fact believe that would have been 4 hours loss of sleep as was into another day. So would be 6 hours for dropping the anchor. Usually came to an agreement and gave buckshie hours elsewhere. In case some office boy was scrutinizing the overtime sheets looking for office promotion. Was a pain in the rear end trying to keep an acceptable looking overtime sheet with no flaws in. However that does not happen at sea today as is a 12 hour day and if above this worked tuff luck. So is not a well regimented thing unless you are on a ship where every day is the same as the last and tomorrow will be the same as well, never was on a ship like that. Today most seamen never sailed with the overtime and sundays at sea, loss of sleep and all the other idiocracys and don't know what you are talking about. In the first case with the chippy the first thing the office would say was why were you working the chippy until 2000 hours. You probably weren't but it was the only way to get the official 3 hours in a day by making it appear that he was. Paperwork was never ending and such a wasted effort. JWS

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