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May 02, 2022 * 1 post * 26 views
ArticlesDavid mullins said:
To my mind Prince Line, part of the Furness Withy Group, was one of those shipping companies held in high esteem by Manchester seafarers. The majority of the fleet were small 3 hatch vessels with good accommodation and better than normal ...
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May 01, 2022 * 13 posts * 218 views
Swinging the LampHarry Nicholson said:
Another site got me thinking about the environmental disaster of the tanker, Torrey Canyon, that hit Cornish rocks in 1967. I had come ashore a few years earlier and was working ...
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April 25, 2022 * 28 posts * 789 views
April 28, 2022 * 66 posts * 2,011 views
P & Oj.sabourn said:
#30 Never heard of it being a closed shop .It was an association . And called a union only in title when re-named Union as in Numast.It had no teeth and was more of a friendly ...
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April 27, 2022 * 5 posts * 135 views
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May 01, 2022 * 23 posts * 717 views
Ask the ForumDavid Bell-Lennan said:
Mike. in 1972 on a trip back to my home town Grays went to the beach where as a boy I spent many hours. along from the beach Columbia Wharf and Wards Shipbreaking Yard the Collier ...
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April 27, 2022 * 1 post * 268 views
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April 26, 2022 * 1 post * 35 views
Canadian PacificPeter Kohler said:
I have added an article on Canadian Pacific's R.M.S. EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND to my blog "Wanted on Voyage" [link] This is a comprehensive operational history of this magnificent vessel, ...
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