The only smokes I can remember are yellow boxes of 50's state express 777 & 555, round tins of John Players & tins of baccy,Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Brady
every one used to smoke like a chimney
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The only smokes I can remember are yellow boxes of 50's state express 777 & 555, round tins of John Players & tins of baccy,Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Brady
every one used to smoke like a chimney
Remember the polished wood on four little legs radios I think they were Marconi.I did a run job to London on I think it was the Condesa the galley boy had one such radio which I thought was unusual for a lad to have. As the ship kept breaking down it took us about four days to get to London so it gave us a bit more time to get to know each other, and so I found out how he came by the radio.To cut a very long story short he was galley boy on a tanker where the cook was found dead in the galley on Christmas morning after having been stabbed through the heart.Nobody admitted to the murder and the captain interviewed all hands,not a witness tobe had.The lad said it was a terrible time all hands wondering who it was who killed the cook.The galley boy shared a cabin with the 2nd cook one night out of the blue the 2nd cook said you can have my radio gal I'm going to give myself up it was me who killed the cook.The 2nd cook was sent back to the UK and was found not guilty of murder,the cook deserved all he got from what I was told.The galley boy had to stay home for the court case,he had all the newspaper cuttings on the case so between that and the radio he was popping pills for his nerves.I said to him you should get rid of that radio and newspaper cuttings and forget the whole episode.
Regards.
Jim.B.
@ 10 & 6 for 200 why wouldnt you !! Thought one trip I`d go with a pipe bought a POUND tin of American pipe tobacco and a Sherlock Holmes pipe but could not make an impression on that big can of baccie !! What must a 17 year old kid have looked like puffing away on a `curly pipe ? `Soon went back to the old Senior Service !
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**** the cook on that ship must have served up bad meals !! I`v heard that they used to call the `cook a #**!` but to kill him !!
.To cut a very long story short he was galley boy on a tanker where the cook was found dead in the galley on Christmas morning after having been stabbed through the heart.Nobody admitted to the murder and the captain interviewed all hands,not a witness tobe had.The lad said it was a terrible time all hands wondering who it was who killed the cook.The galley boy shared a cabin with the 2nd cook one night out of the blue the 2nd cook said you can have my radio gal I'm going to give myself up it was me who killed the cook.The 2nd cook was sent back to the UK and was found not guilty of murder,the cook deserved all he got from what I was told.The galley boy had to stay home for the court case,he had all the newspaper cuttings on the case so between that and the radio he was popping pills for his nerves.I said to him you should get rid of that radio and newspaper cuttings and forget the whole episode.
Regards. JB
Hi Jim
I think that tanker you mentioned was the ESSO NORTHUMBRIA, . I got off her just before it happened,
Cheers
Brian
A story that comes to mind was when I signed on the Pinemore I was told it was going to Cyprus with war materials for the French & British Para`s who were going into Suez to open the canal that Nassar had closed which meant that we could be attacked by Egyptian jets, we were also told that if that did happen we were to get under the mess room tables or under anything if that happened !! What we asked`` what the f#**! help would that be on a ship loaded with ammo !``
`The pool never mentioned this ` we said to the union rep. who was a board collecting subs.!! We will be asking the company to pay danger money for this voyage they told us !! I`m still waiting ! Thankfully we didn`t have to get under the mess room tables and the 4`` AAC gun on the forward deck never had to be used . What I did get some years ago from the British War Office was a M N badge for that trip ! When my grandson ask what I had got it for, I said for being very brave.....when a fight broke out in Joe Beefs !! If I remember right I might have been under the table that night in JBs ! Happy days Brian W.
At home we had an old wind up gramophone on legs with some old pre war records and the spring was broken, I was about
seven and used to try and play the records by winding the handle you can imagine what how it sounded with all the different
speeds, I got hours of fun out of that. JC
Brian to add a bit more to it,the lad said he joined her at Barrow-In- Furness they were sent up from Liverpool.They were all sitting in a cafe' in BIF waiting for the ship to dock and from that moment before they had even boarded the ship the cook was picking on him.He loved playing with knives the cook, at times when he would threaten the kid the kid would run upto the chf/stwd only tobe chased away from the chf/stwd as he was terrified of him(the cook)The lad said one night he took him from his cabin to the rec/room where he had a number of knives on the table,choose your weapon and it's me and you.The poor lad was crying and terrified out of his skin but the worst part was that there was deck and engine ratings sitting there and nobody did anything,obviously all scared of this maniac of a cook.Apparently what happened was the cook and 2nd/cook were working in the galley late getting things ready for Christmas day,whatever happened the cook came off second best.The 2nd cook was taken ashore in Newport News,as it happened on the high seas he was sent to the UK for trial.It's ironic that the guy who loved knives and was always threatening people with the knife died by the knife.
Regards.
Jim.b.
A few of the Asian crew members I shipped out with on a tramp told me that they lived in `digs` near the London Docks & when on leave and waiting to ship out they would put their names down for `extras` work at Pinewood Film Studios.
If Asian `type` extras were wanted they would be taken down to the studio payed 5 quid a day and a meal.
They told me several films they were in and I then looked out for them & sure enough I saw them in a couple the one I do remember they were Malay bandits trying to machine gun Jack Hawkins on his rubber plantation in the movie ``The Planters Wife``. How many can say they sailed with film actors !! Unless of course you shipped out with Tommy Steele......everyone I ever sailed with said they had !!
Brian I reckon that would've happened last half of 58,I was with the lad April59.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Hi Jim
sorry about that, this is another murder on another ship the ESSO Northumbria, I guess it is very similar, Cook stabbed to death in the Galley, this was around 1980ish. so just another murder.
Thanks.
Brian