little ships big men

[Keith at Tregenna]

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[j.sabourn]

Keith I sailed with someone who was taken prisoner by the germans when his ship was sunk in the NA. He was on the prison ship Altmark if my memory is correct and was rescued by the destroyer Cossack in the Norwegian Fjord off Narvik There is a burial ground there and I rather think among others there is a large amount of Polish mariners buried there. Rather think they were executed by the Germans. JWS.

[cappy]

##also sailed with a captain rescued off the altmark that man was the most fair old man i ever sailed with i think he may have apprentice or even 3rd mate when rescued..a great guy ..regards cappy

[j.sabourn]

Can you remember his name Cappy may be the same man. If I remember correctly I used to relieve this bloke as mate, but the ship I can't remember either. He was an apprentice when taken prisoner also. Your grandad was of the old school and although he was probably afeared for his own safety knew what his conscience told him was the correct thing to do. He was a brave man and you have every right to look up to him. Today's morality has no depth to what it was at one time. Cheers Js

[cappy]

##after getting married john it was easy when things were not going as i liked to say i will get my discharge book and go back to sea .....one day i couldnt find it it had gone if i remember the masters name was always on the engagement .......years later i sent off to get some voyage cards and a copy of discharges alas the captains name is not on these copies....i do believe he was a BTC company man strange but fair honest men are always remenbered the drosss soon fade away like a bad smell ......cheers cappy

[j.sabourn]

Cappy a possibility just came to me and a very common name, in my case it may have been a Norie Smith a Welshman. I relieved him whilst working for Chowgule Steamships Bahamas. Shortly after this he went as master with World Wide Shipping. His ship was in Middlesbrough one time and he and his wife came up to see the wife and me and he wanted me to go mate with him on the ship he was on at the time, as I was still employed with Chowgules it was a no no. However he died a number of years ago now. If wasn't him maybe the name will come back. Cheers JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

I think most of us who sailed in the immediate post war years sailed with some right characters who were just glad to have survived that trauma and had a somewhat cavalier attitude to life and got us younger impressionable people into some scrapes ashore which would have made our mothers blanch, but we were the richer for it and it still lives with us and makes us realise that we never faced the adversities that our forbears did but are able to handle most things thrown at us in life. As they say every cloud has a silver lining, except when its bluddy raining!

[cappy]

Cappy a possibility just came to me and a very common name, in my case it may have been a Norie Smith a Welshman. I relieved him whilst working for Chowgule Steamships Bahamas. Shortly after this he went as master with World Wide Shipping. His ship was in Middlesbrough one time and he and his wife came up to see the wife and me and he wanted me to go mate with him on the ship he was on at the time, as I was still employed with Chowgules it was a no no. However he died a number of years ago now. If wasn't him maybe the name will come back. Cheers JS

##cant put a name to him john only that he was a number one guy ...he got us the matresses after the indian currry affair on the british tanker and would always listen to what you had to say..hope you are in fine fettle apart from our age which we can do nothing about .....cappy

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I think most of us who sailed in the immediate post war years sailed with some right characters who were just glad to have survived that trauma and had a somewhat cavalier attitude to life and got us younger impressionable people into some scrapes ashore which would have made our mothers blanch, but we were the richer for it and it still lives with us and makes us realise that we never faced the adversities that our forbears did but are able to handle most things thrown at us in life. As they say every cloud has a silver lining, except when its bluddy raining!

well that sums it up ivan in a nutshell not for most on here the fear of subs mines aircraft etc ...we had it good ...i like this saying ...the world was our lobster...and still is regards cappy

[j.sabourn]

Lewis ate them the other night. Trying to get his weight down and finished up with the runs instead. Sorry thought you said oyster. Js

[Lewis McColl]

John as they say there are two things in the world that certainly should not contain liquids one is superheated steam and the other is a ####.
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