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[Mike Hall]

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[Keith Tindell]

Wow, whatever he had been up to it was pretty bad, and certainly his last ship.

[j.sabourn]

Lasted 10 months , certainly pizzed someone off. JS No wonder some don’t want to put their discharge number on view. JS

[Doc Vernon]

Well this is the first time i have ever seen such an Entry! Gosh! I wonder how he managed to get in the Merc in the first place!
Terrible !!

[j.sabourn]

Really Vernon it is an illegal entry for a British Discharge book , however it is a Cook Island book which I believe Is or was part of the Commonwealth so whether it passed through the British maritime system I don’t know. The discharges a master can give I believe are stipulated as VG, G, DR, ENR, VNC. He could have put such a report in the OLB but all reports as such the recipient would also have to receive a copy also his reply to such. It is the reason why a merchant ship always carried a straight jacket and handcuffs as part of its medical assembly , usually kept in the mates cabin, people on ships do go daft the same as ashore the same as the one or should say 2 at different times , I was there for the first one on the Rosewood where the master was stabbed in Dakar , and the second one same ship following set of Articles where one murder and two violent attempts at the same on here by someone else titled my worse Christmas at sea. In my case I managed to get the master to a hospital and the culprit arrested by police , I will not divulge his name as he has served his sentence and any family he has does not deserve any bad press. The master must be dead by now or a really long liver he was a Captain Hort .who obviously survived to fight another day. Cheers JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Looks like a coulered mans fingers on the book, very unusual for a cook Islander to b an engineer cadet, might have been on the Kava.
Des
PS. Looking at the port names may have been an Island trader.

[Tony Taylor]

Looks like a coulered mans fingers on the book, very unusual for a cook Islander to b an engineer cadet, might have been on the Kava.
Des
PS. Looking at the port names may have been an Island trader.

had a junior from Gilbert and Ellis islands.

[Johnny Kieran]

Dodgy discharge books were available fairly easily in London, you wouldn't tell the difference. For a price of course.

[Brett Hayes]

Dear J. Sabourn, I am obviously not one of the cognoscenti, so would like to know the meanings of some of the abbreviations mentioned in your interesting article that mentions Discharge Book terminology.
I know the meaning of VG, G and DR, but not ENR or VNC — and am I right in assuming that OLG means Official Log Book?
All best, Brett Hayes R863743

[j.sabourn]

ENR Endorsement Not Required. VNC Voyage Not Completed . OLB Official Log Book . JS
PS The seaman could request the ENR if he so desired. It wouldn’t make much difference in the shipping world as most would know it was to avert attention from the DR , which could be found the reason for in the OLB . The only way to keep out of sight is to lose your Dis. Number and change your name. However today and for some time past British seamen’s Dis. A. Books do not have places for such discharges . JS.