joined the foreign legion

[Keith at Tregenna]

Manchester Port (3)

1935 -
1965 scrapped Bilbao.

Manchester Liners Ltd.

K.

[Robert George Young]

thank you

[Captain Kong]

I think the usual place to Join the French Foreign Legion would have been Marseilles, that was the Headquarters of the Legion . In Algeria the headquarters were at Sidi Bel Abbes. in the desert.
I helped to rescue the French Foreign Legion in Viet Nam after the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1955, on the Troopship, `GEORGIC` we took the survivors tp Algiers as they were mostly M*s*ims from North Africa and Senegal, The rest of them, a mix of French, German and British, we took to Marseilles.
Brian

[Michael Humby]

I jumped ship but still have my discharge book showing a final VNC (Voyage Not Complete). Not sure how I claimed it back.

Michael

[Trader]

Did you see my post Robert.? I see that the name Bewley, Consul was stamped in your fathers book. There was a Capt. Bewley in Manchester Liners, I sailed with him on the Manchester Progress in 1956. I wonder if he was captain on the Manchester Port when your dad was there.

[Trader]

I jumped ship but still have my discharge book showing a final VNC (Voyage Not Complete). Not sure how I claimed it back.

Michael

Michael, it would have been sent back to the Shipping Federation office (the Pool) and given back to you when you reported to sign on your next ship as it is your personal property.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Hopefully, Doc will be fit and well soon and will add more to the
French Foreign Legion side.

Keith.

[Michael Jobson]

Can't be the same ship if the one detailed was scrapped in 1930... The Discharge Book might also have been annotated DR - Decline to Report. Very bad. But unlikely as the Master would not have been there to sign it off if Robert's dad jumped ship.

[Brian Seward]

In the early fifties I did two voyages on the Manchester Port, two on the Manchester Spinner and four on the Manchester Merchant, All to the east Coast of Canada.
The only Young I recall was a guy Who was with me at the "Vindi" and he was from Manchester.
On the Manchester Port was a AB who had done 16 consecutive trips all to the East Coast all on the "Port"
If I get my Discharge Book u I could find the Captains of those vessel I do remember the Spinner Capt was Capt Struss
and Osbourn and Bewley on Merchant and Port

brian seward Vancouver bc

[casso]

When I skinned out in Rio my discharge book was stamped "Good" for Ability "Decline to Report" for conduct and written in red pen over the stamps was "Voyage Not Complete". The book was left with the Consul who gave it to me when I joined an Athel tanker 10 days later. I did 5 months up and down the East coast of Brazil on the tanker and signed off in my home port of Hull with 2 VG's.