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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Hannah View Post
    Tony I don't recall any happenings out of the ordinary when I was on her. only did the one trip 6 weeks. Don't recall the date signed on & off my second discharge book was left on the Imperial Star.
    probably still "relatively " new when you were on her, an acquaintance of mine was on one of them in late 60s when she developed a 20ft split in the hull and spent a couple of weeks in drydock, in / around New York .

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    probably still "relatively " new when you were on her, an acquaintance of mine was on one of them in late 60s when she developed a 20ft split in the hull and spent a couple of weeks in drydock, in / around New York .

    Tony it would have been the late 60s around 67 or 68 when I was on it! Don't recall hearing anything about that though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Hawken View Post
    Paulo Bukum,Paulo Sambo,Pladju,Miri.Surabaya,Balik Papan,blimey you've kicked off some memories. Did a year 1953/54 in Narica. The mailing address is burned into my brain,PO Box 148,Singapore.They were pretty rough ships,we had some fun though,narrowly escaping jail more than once.(Month in dry dock in Hong Kong.Say no more) We still had a Merchant Navy in those days. A ship flying the Red Duster usually had a British crew,with certain exceptions,unlike nowadays. We saw the best years thats for sure.
    I remember those places well, sailing on the Desmoulea and Kelletia. Spent a month the the bunker ship, Goldmouth off Singapore in 1954 bunkering French troop ships bound for Viet Nam, among others

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