Y boats and others

[Ivan Cloherty]

Attached photo is from the Pizarro.
Did I miss something about deluxe accommodation?
We didn't have soggy bread either!
Den.Ex 2nd cook/baker.

Whoops sorry Den, I meant better accommadation than other ships sailed
Ivan

[kurutai]

Yes the "Pizzaro" was PSNC and had good accommodation for all and was nothing like the Royal Mail Y ships, I refuse to call them Boats. I served on ships.

Ivan

I think that the term boats amongst merchant seamen is more a term of endearment realy Ivan a bit like saying I was on a couple of Star boats or Port boats it just runs off the tongue easy, how many times have we heard the saying Baron boat , as far as soggy bread goes we had our fair share of that aboard the old Pilcomayo regards Dave .

[Ivan Cloherty]

I think that the term boats amongst merchant seamen is more a term of endearment realy Ivan a bit like saying I was on a couple of Star boats or Port boats it just runs off the tongue easy, how many times have we heard the saying Baron boat , as far as soggy bread goes we had our fair share of that aboard the old Pilcomayo regards Dave .

Yes Dave, I should kick myself up my backside, as I've used it, but I'm so used to correcting visitors who see a 40-60,000 tonne ship and say have you seen the boat as if it were something on a boating lake.

So you have my permission to kick me up the rear in case I miss

Regards

Ivan

[kurutai]

Yes Dave, I should kick myself up my backside, as I've used it, but I'm so used to correcting visitors who see a 40-60,000 tonne ship and say have you seen the boat as if it were something on a boating lake.

So you have my permission to kick me up the rear in case I miss

Regards

Ivan

Bettween ourselves Ivan we are allowed to use the wrong termanology but we aint letting those who know nothing about the real ships that we sailed in speak about them as if they where as you say something on a boating lake, just an after thought it must have been a tough time resisting all that temptation of the west coast of South America as a young cadet I only did the run once and that was in the Royal Mail ship Eden we where on a p.s.n.c . charter for some reason, great trip though and oh to have had just one more trip to Valparaiso well perhaps more than one but in those days as an a.b. I as we all where was spoilt for choice of great runs although I doubt it has been that way for many years now best regards Dave .

[Ivan Cloherty]

Bettween ourselves Ivan we are allowed to use the wrong termanology but we aint letting those who know nothing about the real ships that we sailed in speak about them as if they where as you say something on a boating lake, just an after thought it must have been a tough time resisting all that temptation of the west coast of South America as a young cadet I only did the run once and that was in the Royal Mail ship Eden we where on a p.s.n.c . charter for some reason, great trip though and oh to have had just one more trip to Valparaiso well perhaps more than one but in those days as an a.b. I as we all where was spoilt for choice of great runs although I doubt it has been that way for many years now best regards Dave .

Dave

Who resisted, it was surprising what you could get for a couple of bars of "Yardleys" soap especially when you were sixteen and looked about twelve. Never thought I'd go back to breast feeding!!!!!!!!

Ivan

[Pat Marshall]

Yardleys...a favourite product for the contrabandistas or so I was told together with dire warnings not to go aft for an hour or two after leaving Rio as they would be dumping bags over the rail to be picked up by others following. I never did go to take a look but apparently the little passenger shop always was out of stock by the time we got to Santos.

Pat

[kurutai]

Dave

Who resisted, it was surprising what you could get for a couple of bars of "Yardleys" soap especially when you were sixteen and looked about twelve. Never thought I'd go back to breast feeding!!!!!!!!

Ivan

I wish I had never picked up on this I,m now drowning in nostalgia , how about all the jelly fish in the harbour was it Callo [ I hope I have spelt that right ] is that not the port that is close to the capital of Peru long time ago now Ivan in fact this was in 1963 as I said before aboard the good ship Eden on the way down the west coast we stopped over at gartagena [ I know my spelling is terrible ] in Columbia then through the Panama I bought an Amazon green parrot he spoke spanish I paid ten American dollars for it I had that old parrot right up untill may 2006 broke my heart when I lost him but I never lost the memories best wishes Dave .

[Glenn Baker]

Were you on the Kuratai, I was on it on the Coal run and i did a couple of Sydney melbourne runs on it. Glenn Australia

[kurutai]

Were you on the Kuratai, I was on it on the Coal run and i did a couple of Sydney melbourne runs on it. Glenn Australia

Yes Glenn I was in her in 1969 I joined her in Auckland great little ship we carried race horses down aft ,best regards Dave .

[Richard Masson]

Great memories. Pity we didn't appreciate what we had at the time.
Just for the record Dave it's Cartagena and Callao.
I was 3rd Mate of the Albany and one morning in Callao the Mate told me to go with the agent to get a couple of the deck crowd out of jail. Went into town, did the paperwork and the agent paid the money (bail or bribes, who knows?) but the local Marineros wanted more. The agent said no so they turned on me. I told them to F off, I was a rough tough third Mate after all and finished up spending a couple of hours behind bars with the boys.
Got back to the ship in time for a beer at Noon and had to explain it all to Captain Chatterley.
Anyone on here on the Albany then? According to my Discharge book that would have been sometime in 1964 or 65.