7 Years with S.S.A.

[Colin Lythe]

Hi Barney,
Colin Lythe here was with you on the Waiwera and Majestic think you did a one way back to NZ
hope you are well and fit! was in New Plymouth several years ago commissioning a power ststion there.

Best wishes

Colin

[Colin Lythe]

Hi Barney,
Colin Lythe here ex Waiwera hows life sent previous mail but maybe got lost.
Rgds

Colin

[Cliff Page]

Hi Colin, we sailed together on Waiwera, I also joined UK SSS few years back and will attend this years at Bournemouth.
This is my first time on this site, hoping for more contacts, lots of remonising, hope this finds you well.

Best regards,

Cliff Page
Former 3/E. Waiwera.

[happy daze john in oz]

G'day Cliff nand welcome to the site. Do you have alist of the ships you sailed on and maybe some dates? If so and you care to post them on site there is a good chance you wil egt to hear from some who knew you. So sit back with a cold one and enjoy the voyage.

[Cliff Page]

Hi john;

will send info next week when back home and find my d-book, may take couple days.

Remember the bluey mountains:

Cliff page:

[Colin Lythe]

Hi Cliff,
Nice to hear from you hope all is well, was in contact with the mouse a while ago.
I am retired now as with all old salts still remember the good times and shipmates, certainly the WAIWERA is a happy memory,

Good luck,

Colin Lythe

[Cliff Page]

Hi Colin,

Great to hear from you, Stuart Dobson sent this WWW so joined last week, must look for my old Discharge book. So you returned to `old home town` and retired me to, altho always seam to have things to do, like clearing snow, had rather lot this winter.
So your intouch with mouse, met him at Slaley Hall back about 8-9 years at SSL re-union.
Like you great memories of Waiwera she was always demanding our attention or was it fondeling!

Lets hear from you, my private Email: cliff.page@t-online.de

Best wishes,

Cliff Page.

[Ian Robertson]

Hi Barney,
Guess its the same Kiwi I sailed with on the Waiwera, I joined the UK SS Society several years ago just came accross this site, hope you are well.

Rgds

Colin Lythe

Hi Colin,
Yes tis I, sorry to be so long in replying too busy in this retirement lark. We had some good times on the Waiwera eh? I went from her to the Canopic when it was sold to the Greeks whilst it was laid up on the Tyne. I remember that when you and i were on the Majestic in Avonmouth we came back from an overnight excursion to somewhere and one of the jennies had seized. I did 2 years on her and joined the Amalric in Auckkand did 1 trip swallowed the anchor to get married. I went to the S.S.A. Society reunion in Edinburgh in2009 They are a little more formal than ours in the antipodes. Our next reunion is in Picton in 2012.
Good to catch up with you.
Cheers,
Ian Robertson (Barney)

[Ray Blackley]

I was 4th Eng on the Cretic which was with the Waiwera at Swans at that time. Had many a good drinking session with the boys off the Waiwera in the Ship in the Hole. Some of her engineers came to our wedding. Perhaps we may have had a drink together.

[Adrian Featherstonhaugh]

Hello William,
Seems we were on the same ships albeit at slightly different times. My first ship as Eng Cdt was the Darro in Victoria Docks, London October '73, then Illyric in March '74 (joined in Liverpool). Then as J/E the Amalric (August '75 to May '76) followed by short trips on Illyric and Icenic before another 5 month run on the Illyric in '77.
You may have sailed with a cadet called Malcolm Johnson on the Drina or Durango? He was a tall chap with dark hair from Essex and one of the three SS&A Eng Cadets at Poplar Tech for the 1971 intake.