Everard ships from Liverpool

[cappy]

on the allurity we paid so much a week to the cook to get fed if we didnt like what was on offer we had a word about it ......strangely enough the cook steward on his trips to buy the goodies always wandered back pissed......as we were in shields fish was a regular .....but a good plate of big cod or haddock is a fine meal for a young man ....or mince tatties and dumplings on a cold day ......cant whack it ....R683532

[John Aikenhead]

Could it be Naples - Did a drydocking there once and recall that it was a hilly location and had a similar viaduct road close to seafront.
Marseilles also comes to mind with a similar road. John.

[j.sabourn]

#2 I only remember Everards ever being talked about in the 50s as coasters. As said in a previous post a mate of mine when up for second mate found he couldn’t do the maths including a few other subjects so went for Mate HT in those days there was only FG and HT. He finished up master with them . Then when they brought out this middle trade lark he had to start all over again. Some of the masters on the coast in those days weren’t even certificated , but when they brought out the new certificate structure and they had been sailing for so many years on the coast they were issued with a certificate of service. I think the same thing applied to the engineers ? this master 1 2 3 4 and 5 , I didn’t like it then and I’m still of the same opinion , as the proof of the pudding is in the eating ,not the way it is dressed up. Any good cook knows that . JS

[j.sabourn]

Further to #44 for those who remark on some of those masters on passenger ships with the letters RNR after their name and fly the blue Ensign may not Even of had a masters FG certificate , They could only of had a certificate of service , any ex seaman out of the seaman’s branch of the Navy if commissioned could apply for one. JS.

There may of been a shortage of FG certificates at one time in the offshore industry as a lot of the skippers were sailing with 1 and 2 mates Certs. With a command endorsement , don’t know too much how they applied for such but I sailed with a lot when I went back to relearning the new trade. A fishing skipper ( full) seemed to be more useful for manning a ship. JS

Anyhow from what I remember of the uk and Everards in my early seagoing they were considered as a place where the bad boys went for punishment , and in the latter years were the very last of the British Merchant Navy to fly the flag. Good on em !! JS
PS It was a well known saying amongst fishing skippers in the North Sea , put fishing gear on the Queen Mary and we’ll take her to sea. Whether true or not never bothered to find out. JS

[j.sabourn]

#42 Ah ! All is now revealed where. The 3/9 came from , you owed it to the Cook. Our daily feeding rate in 1955 was 7/6 and if the chief steward kept it below this he got a bonus . I had 10 days in the office in 1957 when my leave ran out. And checked the audit books from 1945 to 1955. The least claims for tax excemption was crews food and wages , the highest claims was depreciation on hull and machinery and Insurance . If a tramp ship got one cargo a year that covered all expenses, after that it was all profit.
JS

[happy daze john in oz]

A full 3/9 for daily food rations.
No wonder Cappy does not want to pay up, he no doubt spent kit on tatties and gruel somewhere in Sheilds.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Was on two coasters before I left the UK, one of Corries can't remember the grub so must have been passible, the other the Leadsman a small tanker, food must have been OK as i didn't leave a lasting impression, the money on the Leadsman was not bad as we were in and out of port like a duck's head in water.
Des

[j.sabourn]

Stowing and unstowing the mooring ropes must have been a pain in the ass Des. JS

[corrientes]

Stowing and unstowing the mooring ropes must have been a pain in the ass Des. JS

They were usually lashed on deck unless really bad forecast.

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Hungry Everards board of trade rations,not a good company for vitals.

I never had bad grub on any Everard I was on. Not 5* but perfectly acceptable.

[cappy]

on the allurity we paid so much a week to the cook to get fed if we didnt like what was on offer we had a word about it ......strangely enough the cook steward on his trips to buy the goodies always wandered back pissed......as we were in shields fish was a regular .....but a good plate of big cod or haddock is a fine meal for a young man ....or mince tatties and dumplings on a cold day ......cant whack it ....R683532

coming back to mind when we paid towards our grub ....on small ships ie coasters etc...the ships were called weekly boats ......sorry ivan i know they are ships but as you probably know the term was weekly boats... it was certainly that in shields perhaps other terms may be used elswhere.......cappyR683532