1st trip on the launceston
Twas a cold november morn that I dragged my young apprehensive **** down the birkenhead docks to where the MV Port Launceston lay tied up still being loaded with her cargo bound for Capetown, Arr! that she be...
Ok enough said yeah I did three trips on her as an engine room rating and met characters like Tiny a cockney chief cook Jeeze was I seasick that trip.I remember the dodgy lash up of a swimming pool down aft made of planks and a tarpauline.
and Taffy (Davy Jones ) a donkeyman sadley passed away a coupla trips later on the way to OZ buried at sea.
the plywood varnished cabins and the funky crew bar and swing from the pipes on the deckhead that ran through the bar. and no AC power that sucked too.yup great days mate..I was on her when we sold it to the greeks leaving it in a dry dock in scaramanga( spelling?) an flying home
.Nice one take care.