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1st April 2021, 11:22 AM
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Re: The Channels
Remember, Gear before beer 😇
Regards Michael
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15th April 2021, 01:56 PM
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Re: The Channels
Hi - I was on Oriana for that voyage. - telephonist. Remember the trip well. Had previously been with Union Castle on Pendennis Castle, their first ship with female telephonists (and for all I know any telephonists!) anyway as you said it was a long voyage.
Anne Hamilton (now a very old lady living in Australia)
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16th April 2021, 06:22 AM
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Re: The Channels
Yes we had female telophonists on the Windsor
One would offer services if you rang at the correct time, very nice too.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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16th April 2021, 05:16 PM
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Re: The Channels
Ah well John nice to know not everyone in UCL was not a member of the Brown ring club.
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17th April 2021, 01:48 AM
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Hi Anne.
Welcome to the site, hope you stay and enjoy the company, we need more females to calm some of the lads!! down at times, and remember you are as old as you feel, many on this site including myself feel very young when we are reminiscing on here.
Cheers Des
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17th April 2021, 06:21 AM
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Re: The Channels

Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
Hi Anne.
Welcome to the site, hope you stay and enjoy the company, we need more females to calm some of the lads!! down at times, and remember you are as old as you feel, many on this site including myself feel very young when we are reminiscing on here.
Cheers Des

Well Des, it has been said you are as young as the person you are feeling!!


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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