Discharge Book or not

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Evan.
Did you have a bad one after missing the Swansea to Devon ferry? Jeez you could have caught a bus and been there before she docked.
Des

[Evan Lewis]

Hi Evan.
Did you have a bad one after missing the Swansea to Devon ferry? Jeez you could have caught a bus and been there before she docked.

Des

What happened on that one Des. Bit different . Had Three months or so Working holiday.,from my job in Melbourne .Worked a Swede ship . the Goonawarra. from Melb, to Rotterdam.
Bit quiet at home ,most Mates could only get out on Friday nights
Butlins ,Barry was opening for the Season. Got a job ,Security. Punch up ,most week-ends .Barry Boys At the Gate. joining on the end of returning Campers . Lashing out. on refusal..
One night , Out of the Darkness , hail of stones came raining down Couldn't see the perpetrators. Says to myself .F this for eight Pounds. a week.
Couple days later, went to White Funnel Fleet offices. AT Tiger Bay. Cardiff . Joined the Balmoral.
Most Bristol Channel ports,. usually time for a few quick Pints at Ilfracombe . Sunday nights ,overnighted at Swansea .Porthcawl .first Port ,Monday. Asked The Mate o/k to leave in Porthcawl/ return that evening had a Dental App.at nearby .Bridgend
Thought and said Couldn't see his way clear. . Thinks I . I can. Ties =up a Porthcawl. Goes Fwd. . Grabs my Bag , Ten mins later ,on Bus no dis.a books involved with them. .few weeks later was on my return Booking Angelina Laura.
Party piece in Melb, with the exiles. Tell us about the time you jumped ship, at Porthcawl .

[Keith Tindell]

With regard to discharge books, all of my time at sea i never had a passport, and like many others i have joined, and paid off in foreign places, so my discharge book was accepted as a passport i presume. My last ship i paid off was in Hamburg, 1964, down to hook of Holland by train, can anyone remember if you were stopped, say from Germany into Holland to have papers checked ??, i have no memory of that happening, mind i was probably three sheets to the wind, kt

[Doc Vernon]

Ditto here too Keith only when i was in the RAF when i was going to be posted to Aden, and they then had to apply for a Passport for me.
At all other times though travelled into anywhere with Seamans ID Card!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

At one time the Seamans Book was recognized as an equal to a passport, but that day is now sadly long gone.