I am just feeling my way round this marvelous site and once i do i will get involved with the chat ,and pass my own stories on,I would also like to give the name of another interesting site which has some very good stories and ships photos as well as a list of most of the seamans bars from around the world and UK etc that i am sure most of us have visited over the years the site is rhiw.com i was at gravesend from feb 68 for 3 months.