Passenger Ship Material?

[Doc Vernon]

Noel
Those Double Diamond Beers were headache material mate!
Always had a cracking headache after a night on those!
Cheers

Ouch!!!!

[happy daze john in oz]

And that Vernon is why the ad said,
Double Diamond does wonders.

[Johnalistair]

I also sailed on the 'Rangitoto' 1965 as a cabin Boy at 161/2, only did one round trip though, then joined Blue Star.
Remember the second Stuart used to smoke cigars, small guy with glasses, very nice guy though.

[Brian Probetts (Site Admin)]

That Second Steward would have been John Lockyer, he was, in fact, Extra Second Steward at that time.
He was promoted to Second Steward and I was then promoted to Extra Second Steward.

Brian.

[Johnalistair]

Hi Norm,
I sailed on the Rangitoto in 1965/66.
I was a 'lift Boy' on trip. I only did the one round trip. The second steward was a smallish chap with glass's and smoked cigars, Nice chap though.

[happy daze john in oz]

Sailed on the 'Paparoa' in 64 and today watching a program from NZ there it was sign for the town of Paparoa. Now I know where he name came from.

[Jim Brady]

I often see people post that they were a cabin boy,what did their duties involve.I was a catering boy, on cargo boats I was either a galley boy or a pantry boy both self explanatory.I never heard the term used sailing out of Liverpool and I often wondered how the word cabin came into it.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Captain Kong]

Jim
This was on google.... I don't believe this................................

Top Definition

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cabin boy

1. Young boy taken on a ship to perform menial tasks like cleaning and cooking
2. Often buggered by the professional sailors onboard until they get shore leave
3. A Chris Elliot movie of same name

Captain: Whose turn is it with the cabin boy?

First Mate: Seamus, because it's his birthday!

by persnickety twit October 30, 2004

[John Albert Evans]

Jim,

I never sailed on any pasengers ships but, on leaving Gravesend NSTS in March 1957 I signed on at the Shipping Federation, Mann Island, Liverpool and my first ship was the 'Acuity' one of Everades Coastal Tankers. I joined her at Bromborough and was signed on as cabin boy. If my memory serves me right my main duties were cleaning allyways a couple of cabins and helping clean the galley. The cook was a very nasty piece of work, he was from Chester. I only did one trip on her and we went around the UK. Bromborough,sailed and broke down in the St Georges Channel drifted for three days and was taken into tow by another one of Everades, docked at Brixham, repaired the continued to somewhere in London on the Thames, cann't remember where. Then around the top of Scotland back to Bromborough. Last day out of Bromborough the cook was drunk out of his brain came into my cabin at night with a meat cleaver and attacked me (Dont't know to this day why) I ran to the second mates cabin, he was a great big Swedish man who knocked the cook out with one punch. He was carried to his cabin and handcuffed to a pipe. The next day we arrived at Bromborough and the captain advised me pay off and leave the matter like that and he would deal with it which I did. I have Cabin Boy written in my Discharge Book. I do know the cooks name but its best to let byegones be byegones, I never met him again. It didn't put me off and all my next trips were deep sea.

John Albert Evans
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[Jim Brady]

Hi John,you are the first person that I have come across who has signed on cabin boy,I always thought that it was a bit of an ancient title.I suppose on a coaster doing those different jobs which included cleaning cabins it would make sense.By the way John what was the catering dept.cook/stwd and cabin boy.
Regards.
Jim.B.