French tactics

[Leslie Aikenhead]

GB news channel anyway they will write all sorts of rubbish but !! if this attached link is true why did the UK border force or RN just not tell the french as they are on a French naval flagged vessel they are therefore on French soil so take them back to France.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...f8ddd15f&ei=41

What rubbish do they write ?

[James Curry]

How long you lived in Canada? Surprised you would be bothered with watching or reading anything about what GB news has to say. Um!!! I wonder who drew your attention to a post about French Tactics.

[Keith Tindell]

Probably about as long as you lived in the middle east James Lol/

[Marian Gray]

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[James Curry]

Probably about as long as you lived in the middle east James Lol/

So about 13 years then?

[j.sabourn]

That must just about be all your seatime then. How much of that time were you signed on as ships crew ? And not ships repair/ maintainance. ? Always nice to know who one is talking to and their background, what a lot of this site is about. Cheers JS

[James Curry]

A lot longer than that John. I will need to look at my discharge book next time I am up in the loft.

[j.sabourn]

It must be ingrained in your mind then the number lets know what it is and will let you know if some of my old contacts are still alive. JS

[James Curry]

MAN 0278 I have posted this several times. Now Seeing as I handed my British one in many many years ago when I left the British MN. I no longer have it. If you are not signing on a British Flagged ship you are not allowed to have a British book. What were you using to sing on non British flag ships? I have had Liberian & Pananma books which are also up in the loft I suspect.

[j.sabourn]

Up until the early 1970s you weren’t supposed to have a foreign Registered discharge in your book , this was because they didn’t want to lose British seamen was all down to the federation , after that date or thereabouts it made no difference didn’t matter. anyone could always carry a British Book . Repairers and shore teams on ships did not get a discharge , if they did sign on they signed on as supernumerary , they were on a shore agreement with their employer. They did however come under the master as regards discipline . Which literally meant any trouble and he would put him or her ashore at the first available port. I am very well aware of the practices in my time of Liberian , Panama, Cayman Islands, and others you probably haven’t heard of, as carry certification for them all at that time.. I always carried a British book the same as many others , would be the first thing a British Consul asked for if you got into trouble . It also contained next of kin NHI number etc etc. I still have 3 full up British Dis A. books they belong to me and no one else , there was no need to hand it back unless it was withdrawn by the BSF which literally meant you were barred from British ships. Cheers JS