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August 19, 2009 * 21 posts * 4,069 views
My Ships said:
No,I said Rock Dodger....not a Dock Rodger,pleasurable as that sounds. In 1974,whilst standing by a new vessel being built in Clydebank, with nothing much to do except literally watching the paint dry,our Personnel Manager asked me to do a ...
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May 21, 2011 * 3 posts * 805 views
Merchant Navy General Postings said:
I thought I’d like to reinstate this thread.It was originally in response to a nostalgic post by our shipmate Gordon Whittaker. My posting ,although in my opinion was fit to discuss normally with former shipmates at sea,using the then ...
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August 15, 2014 * 106 posts * 4,314 views
Forgotten Tragediesj.sabourn said:
Default Aftermath By JS Aftermath.... Commenced putting down 15.2.11. As over the past nearly 23 years I have had to live with a lot of gruesome memories, I have decided to put my thoughts and recollections down as they come ...
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March 29, 2021 * 3 posts * 35 views
Personal Tales and StoriesJohn Swan said:
On the 20th Sept. 1960 I joined the 47,000 DWT tanker Kazimah in Rotterdam as 3rd Mate, a large,ish ship in the day. She was a Kuwait flag vessel, the first built for the Kuwait Tanker Co. & managed by Common Bros. Newcastle. We sailed to ...
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March 29, 2021 * 11 posts * 83 views
Personal Tales and StoriesDon Butler said:
Interestingly enough, I think it was late 50's or early 60's, I was a radio officer on a BP 18,000 ton tanker. Transiting the canal, the pilot who spoke perfect English, but mumbled a bit. gave an order to the helmsman, who misunderstood ...
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April 27, 2021 * 7 posts * 276 views
General ArticlesGraham Shaw said:
Our old shipmate Gulliver (Davey) contacted me and lamented that due to an unfortunate misunderstanding,many of his Articles were 'lost' when he left,sadly most were not saved by him on his PC so can not be reproduced. However,here is a new ...
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May 09, 2021 * 13 posts * 176 views
May 09, 2021 * 2 posts * 61 views
May 04, 2021 * 2 posts * 83 views
Ask the ForumTeressa Bignell said:
Hi. I am wondering if anyone knows who to contact for my issue. My grandfather enlisted in the merchant Marines in 1929. I do have copies of his CR1 & CR2 cards. I am trying to ...
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May 09, 2021 * 19 posts * 263 views
Ask the ForumLewis McColl said:
Ship design has certainly changed over the years, gone are the classic cargo liners , the sleek classic lines of passenger ships. I suppose it was H&W that really were at the fore ...
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