Oldest ships sailed on ?

[Peter Brown]

I was an apprentice on the Walter J. Chambers (No 2 Pilot Boat, not No 1) in 1949 to 50. Peter Brown New Zealand

[Captain Kong]

Its no contest,
I was Peggy on Noahs Ark.
Brian ....stll trying to get rid of the smell of animals out of my hair

[robpage]

Its no contest,
I was Peggy on Noahs Ark.
Brian ....stll trying to get rid of the smell of animals out of my hair

If there is a tale about you and Mrs Noah I refuse to believe it

[Captain Kong]

I never touched her , honest I didnt. There was a sheep that..........
well it was a long voyage.

[John Albert Evans]

I was Cabin Boy (First Trip) on the MV Acuity. FT Everade in 1957.

She was a coastal tanker built in 1946 and scrapped in 1975...acuity.jpg

John Albert Evans.

[Captain Kong]

I was Cabin Boy (First Trip) on the MV Acuity. FT Everade in 1957.
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I was Ordinary Seaman for six months on her sister AMITY in 1952/3, They were built in 1946 for the mosquito fleet in Singapore, names started with Empire ....... Single berth cabins on that one , I had the Serangs Cabin, a good job round the coast from Stornoway to Channel Islands, plenty of women being taken around the land, I was 16/17 and thought it was magic. Learned how to drink and the all the rest with the ladies on that one.
The ABs said you can come ashore with us, BUT you drink like a man, you act like a man and pay like a man. Or the big iron fist. Good training.
Cheers
Brian.

[John Albert Evans]

Ive been going through the ships I was on and found that there was one older than the Acuity.

It was the T2 Tanker San Leonardo , Eagle Oil shipping Company, (I was an assistant steward) built originally in the USA and completed in 1944 as the SS Bryce Canyon, in 1947 renamed the Turnbinellus the in 1949 the San Leonardo. She was scrapped in Scotland 1961. It was a good ship and crew.

John Albert Evans.

PS Does anyone know where I can obtain a photograph of the San Leonardo. Thank you in advance.

John

[John Albert Evans]

I was Ordinary Seaman for six months on her sister AMITY in 1952/3, ................

Thanks for that Brian, she was my first trip and very nearly my last. For reasons only know to himself one night the Cook took it into his head that he wanted to kill someone and he picked me and he attacked me with a meat cleaver, he was drunk out of his mind, I ran like hell into the Mates Cabin. He was a Scandinavian man but I cann't remember his name but he was a very big bloke and he hit the Cook only once and knocked him clean out, he was taken to his cabin and tied up till the next morning. Our next port was Liverpool where is was suggested that I paid off which I did. The cook was from Chester and I can still remember his name but I've never come across him since.
I'm very glad to say that it didn't put me off and stayed at sea for the next seven years.

John Albert Evans

[Keith Moody]

cannot conpete with the 1890`s ones quoted, but i did work on the cross channel ferry "Canterbury" built ( i believe) in 1928, a lovely ship with good accomodation for the times. kithen stoves were all coal fired and kept alight 24 hours a day. parts of the deck were so thin that with a heavy blow of a hammer it would go right through, a very happy ship.
another one i sailed on ( but Never worked on" as a kid was the " Autocarrier" 1931, somehow my father got free passes and we went over to france for the day, I guess we must have signed on as crew as i am sure niether of us would have had Passports, this would have been around 1946-8, there was another ship that worked at Dover called " Deal " that like the" Autocarrier " used to load cars by crane in the Granville dock and sail on the high tide when the dock gates were opened, she would return on the next full tide, again as a youngster I did a couple of postioning trips from Dover to Folkestone on her.
keith moody
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[Ivor Lloyd]

I sailed on the Hudsons Collier SS Dagenham Built 1919
Wonderful interior. Oil lamps on gimballs and a most happy ship