The British Trampship.

#10 Seager, W.H. & Co. Ltd. Cardiff
Managed for MoWT
Ocean Fame
Hillcrest Park
Fort Brandon
Fort Highfield
Yamask Park
Fort Tremblant
Samshee
( Tempus Shipping Co.Ltd. )
Campus
Amicus
Beatus.
Ceased ship owning 1966.
JS

Post #5. Hi. John S.
Re Norman l Middlemiss. He may be the son of your superintendent, as he hails from South Shields. Copied the introduction from the book Wow way out of my league.
Bill.

Can’t read the attached Thumbnails Bill , but if was related the Middlemass I knew was think from South Shields but he would have been a man in his 50s in the 1950s .
Cheers JS.

Hi Bill
One of my cousins was a Geraint Jenkins, but then it was a fairly common name in South Wales.
Des

I sailed on a tramp owned by Stevie Clarke’s who were better known for their colliers and coastal tankers. They had 3 deep sea tramps . I was on the Blanchland. Joined in dry dock in Shields. Then loaded full cargo of whisky in Liverpool and Glasgow FOR west coast USA. LA, San Fran ,Seattle and Vancouver. Back to Redwood City near San Fran, over to Osaka , Nagoya in Japan. Back to west coast USA , then over to Walvis Bay ,Cape Town and Durban. Then BA , Rosario ,San Nicholas, back to BA and paid off Rotterdam after a great 9 month trip

Did the same amount come out in L.A. As went in , in Glasgow and Shields John ? Those dockers in Glasgow all carried mugs on their belts, and in Shields you had Cappy. I never did receive the case he said was sending. Was the Pullborough one of Stevie Clarkes ? JS

Hi John the Pulborough was a Stevie Clarks built at Blyth Dry Docks and also the last ship built at Blyth when it closed in 1966 was the Rogate for Stevie Clarks

Regards Alan Mcdougle

Anyone who sailed on such , know the Winstanley brothers . one of them was cook/ steward and the one I knew was a mate. The one I knew was from West Monkseaton and a neighbour of mine when I lived there , but also knew him from Nellists Nautical School in Newcastle. JS


#12 Bill can now read your post attachment. There is good chance is the supers son. My son is a computer programmer and Analyst , which he certainly didn’t get from me , as is the subject that leaves me clueless and he talks a different language that I’ve never heard in whatever part of the globe have been in. JS

C.T. Bowring ran small tankers for Regent on the Caribbean-UK/€U run. When the bottom fell out of that market they converted/enlarged the Regent Springbok into a bulker - the Prospero/GMYW.
In August '66 I joined her in Smith's Drydock for what was going to be a three-month transatlantic series of crossings. Shanghaied in true tramp style for eighteen months. All over the world and missed two Christmases at home. Awful food and conditions but looking back - what an experience!

I sailed on the Pulborough/GPVE as R/O for six weeks in the summer of '69 as a collier "taking coals to Newcastle". What a waste of my training as I had just completed a six-month upgrade course to Radio/Electronics Officer! Spent the August Bank Holiday weekend tied up at Blyth Staithes. All the Officers and Crew büggered off home - even the donkeyman who was supposed to stay and keep the little generator going. There was me on me todd, no food or even light!

I think it must have been in the early 60s I was on board the Pulborough to visit this mate of mine, she was lying on a river berth just outside Smiths Drydock in North Shields. Had met up with him in the Jungle and finished up on the ship before catching the bus home. #19 She was a coastal vessel and may of been a tanker ? They must have forgotten to water the beer in the Jungle hence my hazy recollections. However this friend as far as I knew had a mates H.T. Ticket as had bailed out of 2 mate F.G. As for the maths involved. However due to the changes involved in this middle trade lark , so went back to Nellists to restart for 2 mate F.G. I was up for master so was maybe 1963. I clerked for in the signals and as most of his messages to me was “pass “ like a tv quiz game , I kept my ears open , no hearing aids in those days , and listened to the other candidates answers and put some in for him. Only a small helping hand not cheating in my view. However he managed a pass . Hope he went on to bigger things. The pulborough looked a fairly new ship my brief incursion on her and I managed to escape sailing on her coastal journey by catching my bus outside the Jungle. Cheers JS………….