Seamens Mission.

[Ivan Cloherty]

[QUOTE=. 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.[/QUOTE]

4 on/8 off although the norm, never meant getting the full 8 off to yourself, you had watch reliefs at meal times, chart correcting, fair logs, library, lifeboats, safety equipment, regardless of rank, and various other things that others may recall. on the 4/4, 5/5 and 6/6 there was no chance of getting a good sleep, of the latter three my favourite was the 5/5 as you got a different part of the day each day

[Captain Kong]

I didn't like the 5/5 system
on watch 3 to 8 am, breakfast then boat and fire drills and then back on at 12 to 5 pm, [ 8 to 12 was the 4 hour watch. ]then have dinner and turn in about 6,30, called again at 9.30pm and on at 10pm to 3am . so in that 24 hour period only Three hours sleep. not good. and if arriving in a port , cargo
work on top No Sleep at all.
Brian

[Ivan Cloherty]

I didn't like the 5/5 system
on watch 3 to 8 am, breakfast then boat and fire drills and then back on at 12 to 5 pm, [ 8 to 12 was the 4 hour watch. ]then have dinner and turn in about 6,30, called again at 9.30pm and on at 10pm to 3am . so in that 24 hour period only Three hours sleep. not good. and if arriving in a port , cargo
work on top No Sleep at all.
Brian

aah! Brian but it made you the man you are! and prepared you for all those times in port after a full day on deck, going ashore until the early hours doing things that we won't mention and then back again for a full day on deck and then a repeat performance the next night, be thankful for the training!!

[Captain Kong]

we must have been tough in those days. but knackered today. https://youtu.be/F3c-WBn5cCg

Cheers
Brian

[Ivan Cloherty]

we must have been tough in those days. but knackered today. https://youtu.be/F3c-WBn5cCg

Cheers
Brian

We were Brian, nothing phased us, that's why we are still around, sometimes it never dawned on us what danger we were in, or when ashore what danger we put ourselves in, but we worked hard and we played hard and are all the better for it, not like the namby pambies who wont go to sea because there is no wifi, gawd help us when the chips are down

[Colin Wood]

Bugger political correctness, its the Mish and long may it remain.

[Nigel Smith]

I remember stopping at the mish in Southampton around 1971 for a week, I was eaten alive by fleas. Probably not a reflection on the mission, more like the previous occupant leaving a donation

[happy daze john in oz]

Tough as you say. Just looking at footage on TV of Rio where the OLympics will be hld next month.

Horror stories coming out of beatings, theft and other happenings. Our athletes are worried as maybe they should.

But in our day we went ashore and never worried about it, took it as it came.

Cannot recall any real bad stories of crew cominmg into strife with the locals, though I knmow it did happen at times.

[Eamonn McCarthy]

Hi any guys use the "the stack of bricks " down near KG5 London

[John Arton]

Hi any guys use the "the stack of bricks " down near KG5 London

Used to go there for a drink occasionally. They had a decent disco on Friday? nights with lots of nurses etc. attending.
We had an old electrician who used to live there between trips and one night he appeared in the bar in his skivvies complaining about the noise. When he saw that booze was still being sold and there was girls in the bar he just diced straight in still in his skivvies, prancing around the dance floor with a pint in his hand and his baggy skivvies flapping in the wind.
rgds
JA