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February 20, 2012 * 14 posts * 3,547 views
Merchant Navy General PostingsJohn Arton said:
Nearly all the great British shipping companies at one time or another had very imposing headquarters in their respective cities, but that was only for the Office wallahs, us poor seamen were usually taken to less imposing parts of either ...
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December 16, 2021 * 36 posts * 6,698 views
October 11, 2021 * 23 posts * 1,511 views
Merchant Navy General PostingsJohn F Collier said:
The recent Ships Funnels thread brought back these memories: After leaving TS Vindicatrix 7th July 1955 aged sixteen, I was summoned to the Shipping Federation office at Londons royal group of docks, I travelled by bus and tube to Plaistow ...
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December 30, 2021 * 5 posts * 534 views
Shell TankersJamie Shedden said:
Northern Star Purser's Bellboy, Wieslaw Kowalczyk, 1972 on mainline voyage to Australia and New Zealand, South Pacific cruising, then start of Mediterranean Cruises from UK in summer of 1972 . His nickname Shuey, worked for the Pursers ...
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January 11, 2022 * 12 posts * 274 views
January 12, 2022 * 5 posts * 228 views
Merchant Navy General Postingscappy said:
some62 years ago and twice after that i sailed from shields with a set of brothers they were a hard family and best watched out for ....i was young and new them from stories from ...
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January 10, 2022 * 2 posts * 106 views
January 12, 2022 * 1 post * 296 views
January 11, 2022 * 21 posts * 1,058 views
Royal Navyj.sabourn said:
#8. When I mention the DSV Seaforth Clansman , she was to replace the second oldest commissioned ship in the RN .. HMS Reclaim which normally during my time lay at anchor unmanned ...
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January 11, 2022 * 25 posts * 1,202 views
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