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April 16, 2011 * 9 posts * 8,888 views
Shaw Savillstephen street said:
Hi to any reader of this! Although i was not a shaw swivel employee. The dubious honour of sailing to NZ and back on the above was mine, when she was used as a cadet training ship.In mid 1977 the MEDIC had a CO training officer Mr Miles ...
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January 20, 2011 * 13 posts * 10,000 views
Cruise Ships of Today said:
I'm sure many of us here remember the 'freak wave' accident to the Italian superliner Michaelangelo. In April 1966 whilst on a regular crossing to New York,she encountered a 'freak wave'. The wave crashed onto the raised forecastle and ...
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March 21, 2012 * 137 posts * 20,755 views
Ask the ForumDavid Snook said:
I've done some research on Discharge Books and Discharge A numbers from WW2 to 1972 to try and get an idea of the turnover of British seamen over the period.Typical numbers issued for various years are1940 R 2174001943 R 230000 ...
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October 23, 2011 * 5 posts * 3,718 views
February 22, 2012 * 6 posts * 7,549 views
March 10, 2012 * 1 post * 2,067 views
My Memoires and Other Interesting ThingsWagga said:
September 1969, M.V. Canberra Star, Glasgow. The Canberra Star was the first of 5 ships built in Germany and launched in 1955. She had a 10 cylinder oil engine which was capable of producing 11,250BHP and was regarded as a ...
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March 10, 2012 * 2 posts * 2,323 views
My Memoires and Other Interesting ThingsWagga said:
HMS Lowestoft, Portsmouth,1975. Families day after an eight month trip. The helicopter was rigged up with the depth charge, which naturally in a theatre of war, would be used against a submarine. Submarines are often quite visible from the ...
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January 26, 2013 * 25 posts * 13,188 views
May 26, 2021 * 12 posts * 187 views
Ask the ForumJames Blodgett said:
I am looking for information regarding an apprentice Patrick Conley who in 1837 at age 16 entered a 5 year apprenticeship under a master William Brown. Is there information available ...
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May 24, 2021 * 12 posts * 262 views
Swinging the LampDennis McGuckin said:
SHAW-SAVILL'S BUCCANEERS As down the quay at half-past three Came Shaw-Savill's drunken crew - They'd spent their sub in a dockside pub, Having a beer or two; But the time draws ...
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