Dad was on that ship in 1964...thank you
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Dad was on that ship in 1964...thank you
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Hi I remember back in the late 1950's early 60's I was an apprentice fitter in a ship repair yard in Birkenhead. I and my journey guy I worked with used to get all the repair jobs on Merseyside, as we called the "Ity" boats in those days. All the vessels we worked on repairs were coastal tankers and carried mostly things like palm oil, cooking oil, and the worst was whale oil. We sometimes had to renew the heating coils in the cargo tanks. The smell of whale oil, used to make your eyes water, don't even think about your clothes!!!.... I said don't even think about your clothes!!!!... that was a Benny Hill joke?
I remember in my senior year as an apprentice, the Engineering Union was on strike, and as apprentices we had to turn up. I remember the Shipyard Manager coming to me and another senior apprentice and asking if we would go and do a job on an "Ity" boat in Bromborough dock in the Wirral. So the plan was that the ship had a leaking stern gland' Regular Packing" in those days. So we did, any how they sailed out of the dock in Bromborough and run it a ground in the silt outside of the dock and waited for the tide to go out and me and my mate Jim repacked the stern gland and waited for the next high tide and we got off and the 'ity' boat sailed
Sailed as EDH on MV Severity mid 1972, happy days generally, but the 4 on 4 off watches were a not much fun. Skipper was Estonian as I recall.
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Originally Posted by Robert George Young
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Wasn't Fred Everards Mediterranean fleet known as th 'yellow perils'?.
Thought the whole fleet was called that. ? JS.
Out of a fleet of 110 vessels (1950's) only about 20 had yellow hulls, there was no Medi-Fleet, Everards was a tramping company and ships went where they were needed, either as programmed or as substitutes if a vessel was delayed. Their trading limits, HT/MT/FG were limited by many factors GRT, Navigators qualifications, Radio equipment, dispensations, LSA equipment etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by j.sabourn
#15 there were no Yellow Pearls, they were all known as yellow perils, unfairly in some cases, but they were never any pearls
#25 Jon, 4 on and 4 off that would have entitled you to 4 hours loss of sleep daily without having to work for it, or was the coast on a different Agreement ? JS
I worked for some time on the coast, 4on 4 off, don't think we claimed loss of doss. I do recall on one 9month trip on a tramper, the mate refused to acknowledge our claim for loss of doss, at the end of the trip, paid off in Hull, and the union were involved, and the Mate had to pay us all loss of doss, must have messed his books up, as at the end of 9months, it amounted to a fair bit. This particular Chief officer was Australian, and a real rissole, the deck crew had been at logger heads all trip. I remember the first dispute was he cut smoko down to 15 mins. 4-4 was hard graft, but well paid, once you got in the swing of it.