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10th February 2022, 10:02 AM
#51
Re: Everard ships from Liverpool
Originally Posted by
corrientes
(i) They were usually lashed on deck unless really bad forecast.
(ii) I never had bad grub on any Everard I was on. Not 5* but perfectly acceptable.
(i) That was the normal procedure, usually lashed with the heaving lines, so that you knew where everything was.
Colliers I was on never had mooring ropes, everything was wire and at mooring these were run through large screw clamps, which made shifting ship not easy, but feasible by one man, slack off the foc'le clamp and run aft heave on the capstan, in position tighten the aft clamps, run for'd tighten the mooring wire on the windlass and clamp up. kept you fit!
(ii) agree not 5* but perfectly adequate and lets face it , short times in port, hard work on deck, all hands to the domino hatchboards, (colliers with steel hatches, complete luxury!) thrown around at sea, normal for coasters and short sea vessels, you would eat anything and if the C/steward was decent no one objected to him having a drink on your food money, he usually shopped in his off time anyway
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11th February 2022, 04:56 AM
#52
Re: Everard ships from Liverpool
I once came back from Sunderland to Gravesend on a 'weekly boat' as you called it.
No grub on board, only Newcastle Brown and some bread.
I was only a passenger to speak, but we did get fish and chips on the only stop I recall
Happy daze John in Oz.
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6th March 2022, 09:18 AM
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Re: Everard ships from Liverpool
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