Help please

[Sylvia Grinham]

Can anyone help please? I was asked by someone on the NZ shipping company FB page was Stan (aka Goolie), a Vindi Boy or a peanut what does this mean?
He was at sea the same years as Stan 1961 - 1979

Thank you

[Keith Tindell]

I would think that bindi boy, was in fact Vindi boy, if so he attended the Vindicatrix training ship, a peanut was a nickname for a boy from the Gravesend training school, which i attended, but long before given the name , peanut. There are lot of members here from the Vindi, sure you will hear from them, hope this helps, Keith T

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Sylvia.
If you have his discharge book it will be stamped on page 5 where he did his training. Mainly the Vindicatrix was for deck with about a quarter stewards, whereas the Gravesend was the other way around, there is a Vindi site on line, but I haven't been on it lately, there are group photos there with many names under them, also the dates they were there.
Hope this is a bit of help.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes mate and the stewards had to do all the work.
Get food for the others, look after the galley and canteen.
But we only had to starve for six weeks unlike the deck hands who had no food for ten.

[Doc Vernon]

Talk about Six Weeks!! Piece of cake ! On my Catering course at Wingfield Aerodrome on the Silver Service Course , in Cape Town we were locked in there for the Duration of Six Months! Serving all the High and Mighty MP's of the time !

We were POW's DeLux Style !

Mind you i must admit that as far as Food went we were very very well fed after we had served the Greedy! LOL

Good times really except for not being able to go out , but Hey! we did manage the odd over the Wall at times, but beware if you got caught!!
Cheers