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[Des Jenkins]

Hi Ivan
If they came over the border the girls where there to make them lay down their arms, and their trousers of course.
Des

[Gino Griffiths]

On the run down to BA on the A boats, it was Palmolive and Cadburys chocolate.

[John Gill]

A round tin of 50 Players got you a harem anywhere along Corrientas in BA.

[John Arton]

Did a trip round the Carribbean back in 73 with general cargo. In Haiti we were discharging in port au prince , papa doc duvallier was in charge, there was a footie match between Brazil and Haiti so we went to watch it, sitting right on the touchline, the only white faces amongst the crowd, the Brazilian players were posing in front of us as they must of thought we were. Foreign press reporting on the match.. managed to get my photo taken with most of the Brazilian team. The touton macots, papa docs, personal guards, were slowly converging on us armed to the teeth, thought that we were in deep shite but papa doc signalled to them to leave us alone, so we got away safely. Port au prince was a shitehole, very run down and dirt poor.
The stevedores were helping themselves to the cargo, some of which was Phillips electrical gear but to try and stop them would have meant getting your throat cut. Bum boats alongside flogging wooden voodoo dolls, bloody awful place.
Next port was Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic. What a difference, everything clean, no theft, stevedores only allowed to bring on board their i.d , searched at the bottom of the gangway by army guys who also had watchers on the warehouse roofs who, we were told, would shoot anyone seen pilfering cargo or even pissing in the holds. Tanks on the dock gates but once passed them, great bars and restaurants on the main drag all spotless and very, very lovely looking ladies.
Rgds
J.A

[Ivan Cloherty]

#24, just how I remember both countries John (without the football match!), they were just like chalk and cheese, but it was 1961, so nothing changed much.