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10th December 2022, 09:01 AM
#61
Re: Thunderbox.
A regular addition on Bank boats in the Far East in the 70's & 80's. I always remember once, the deckies had forgotten to lock the Deck toilet. Asian squatting methods do not "Line up" with Western toilets. When it was discovered there was a pile 3 foot+ high up the back bulkhead.
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10th December 2022, 09:47 AM
#62
Re: Thunderbox.
The normal term with Elders on the West African Run.
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16th December 2022, 02:10 PM
#63
Re: Thunderbox.
i was on the matina elders and fyffes in the 1950s we used to dock at tico and takoradi west coast of africa when we arrived we would take on board what we called the crew boys they did all the loading and the chippy would build them a thunder box which was fixed over the stern they stayed with us while we were on the coast.
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17th December 2022, 10:25 AM
#64
Re: Thunderbox.
Outside Toilets…
Facilities provided in Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside in 50’s and 60’s consisted of long plank on scaffold rigged over the river with holes in and a gutter underneath with a stream of water flowing to remove debris. Seemed OK but the canvas walls were open at the bottom and the wind blew straight in off the North Sea up your Kyber. Suppose it deterred people from lingering.
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17th December 2022, 12:16 PM
#65
Re: Thunderbox.
Originally Posted by
Harvey Stanger
Outside Toilets…
Facilities provided in Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside in 50’s and 60’s consisted of long plank on scaffold rigged over the river with holes in and a gutter underneath with a stream of water flowing to remove debris. Seemed OK but the canvas walls were open at the bottom and the wind blew straight in off the North Sea up your Kyber. Suppose it deterred people from lingering.
Were you with Huntings Harvey?
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17th December 2022, 01:37 PM
#66
Re: Thunderbox.
Always known as a WEST COAST ENSIGN .....IN MY MEMORY....cappy R683532
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17th December 2022, 08:10 PM
#67
Re: Thunderbox.
Cappy one of the funniest things I ever saw with the Thunder Box was after leaving Freetown after dropping the Kroo boys off and heading north a couple of days later the chippy went aft and two swift blows with his very sharp knife the box went and holding onto the rails was a very terrified Nigerian sailor screaming at the chippy Den
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18th December 2022, 03:12 AM
#68
Re: Thunderbox.
#67 The first of the illegal immigrants Denis ? JS
To merry old England in a box of chocolates.
Last edited by j.sabourn; 18th December 2022 at 03:14 AM.
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19th December 2022, 12:41 PM
#69
Re: Thunderbox.
The closest I ever came to a Thunderbox was on the 'City of Melbourne' in a Montreal winter and having to break out those infamous 'Elsans' because of frozen pipes. I remember the advice not to be the first to use them as the chemical burned!
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19th December 2022, 12:58 PM
#70
Re: Thunderbox.
I remember on one trip one of the guys coming in to the messroom, dressed only in a towel, giving the poor old peggy a rollicking for using too much harpic in the toilet, and displaying red raw nuts.looked pretty painful.
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