Old Ashtray!

[Doc Vernon]

Hi
Just came across this old UCL Ashtray Yesterday on the net and its a rare find!
So i jumped at the oppurtunity and Bought it!
It was for Merchant Navy Week at Southampton in 1937!
Another addition to my collection!
Cheers

Have also Bought 2 old Silver Dinner Knives from the UCL Line!

A set of old Playing Cards from a French Liner (must still find out which Liner it was)

And three original postcards of the UCL Fleet namely
Dunnottar
Sterling
Winchester Castles!

Now the waiting !! Oh i hate it haha!

[Louis the Amigo]

hi DR vernon your the best have you got a copy of ship constructionction and calculations 1937

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Louis my Friend
Havent seen you of late here! Hope all is OK WITH YOU!
Now are you winding me up haha! What would i do with a Book of that Nature~
Got plenty of others though LOL!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Good stuff mate, wonder if it came out of a Las Palmas hotel at some time? Just a thought.

[Doc Vernon]

Oh yes John
Quite a possibility as you well know,but who cares hey!
The Ashtray is definately NOT from there haha!
The old Postcards look good still,but could have done with some others from Las Palmas,you know what i mean haha!
Used to sell them like hot cakes in and Around the Cape Run,could never have enough to go around! Dirty Scoundrels ! LOL!
Cheers

[Richard Quartermaine]

On SS&As SS Raranga (1913 Vintage) in October 1947 we anchored quite a way from the jetties and we bunkered coal for our boilers having last bunkered at Bluff, Durban coming from Fremantle. The dozens of local men carrying big baskets of coal on their shoulders and dumping them down't coyl oyl as they say in Bradford running backwards and forwards up and down the plank runway was something to behold.

The bum boats used as ferries to the jetty were smart - sixpence to go ashore an a quid to get back. As a galley boy I earned five quid a month!

[Captain Kong]

Hi Vernon,
I have got a pack of Union Castle playing cards, they have the flag of U.C in each corneron the back and one card has a photo of one of the Castle boats , not sure but it looks a bit like the Durban.
also a Union Castle tea spoon on a card still with the cellophane cling film on, with a picture of the Pendennis Castle on the bowl of the spoon. Also a realy nice piece, a womens powder compact, still contains a little powder and a mirror, about two inches in diameter, smells nice too, I wonder who she was, the top has a picture of the RMS Llandovery Castle.

[Gordon Turnbull]

I have one of the BP ashtrays that looks like a cube with all the holes in the top if you know what I mean? Also a Blue Star Pewter pint mug. Only 63 years left and I can go back to Blue Star. :-)

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Capt
Some nice little Items there as well mate!
All these Memoribilia are really very nice keepsakes,and wonder why peopkle want to sell them!
But its theit loss i say and my gain! Well ours if you too bought those ! Or are they original Items of Yours!


For Gordon too,its nice to have these things in ones possesion!
One of the great keepsakes that i managed to find is this Tankard from the Himalaya as my late Uncle was on her for quite some time!
Cheers and keep collecting ,our Children will at least have things to remember us by! Well hopefully !

[Captain Kong]

Hi Vernon I bought them in a second hand shop in Cape Town last year. I just found the Reciept, it was from a shop called Kim`s Antiques CC. T/A The Decorater. and they cost R130