First night at sea under way

[Captain Kong]

Hi Tom, there was a movement in windy weather on the Old Landing Stage.
So I guess that people who felt that way could really feel it. It was floating.
Not the same now, I did prefer the old one.
Cheers
Brian.

[happy daze john in oz]

I don't know if you would need to be on a big ship to experience this feeling as the rise and fall would be more exaggerated so to speak.Laying in your bunk and the bow go's down you get the feeling of hovering just above the mattress,as she comes back up you feel as though a ton weight is pressing you down into the mattress.During the day the same thing,carrying a tray on the flat of your hand she comes up and the tray feels like a hundredweight,she go's down and you have to grab the tray as it feels as though it is floating away from your hand.A strange experience which lasted just a couple of days,
Regards.
Jim.B.

Hovering above the matress then coming down on you like a ton of bricks??????????? The imagination can run riot with that one Jim.

[Tony Wilding]

carrying the heavy 5 gallon buckets of waste and sludge from the Fuel and Lube Oil Purifiers at the bottom of the engine room to on deck aft to dump them became quite an art, using the ships up and down movement to your advantage. up a few rungs every time she rises. Cleaning Purifiers was horrible job, usually in a very small hot oil fume filled room, no matter how careful you were you got filthy, thick gooie oily sludge.had to change your boiler suit. to think what we put over the wall, every day ? then you had to clean them after getting rid of sludge, about 50 separate metal filters that were numbered and sat inside each other, and they had to be spotless. De Laval purifiers they were called, was glad when i was promoted and lost that job.

[Gulliver]

carrying the heavy 5 gallon buckets of waste and sludge from the Fuel and Lube Oil Purifiers at the bottom of the engine room to on deck aft to dump them became quite an art, using the ships up and down movement to your advantage. up a few rungs every time she rises. Cleaning Purifiers was horrible job, usually in a very small hot oil fume filled room, no matter how careful you were you got filthy, thick gooie oily sludge.had to change your boiler suit. to think what we put over the wall, every day ? then you had to clean them after getting rid of sludge, about 50 separate metal filters that were numbered and sat inside each other, and they had to be spotless. De Laval purifiers they were called, was glad when i was promoted and lost that job.

Well I am deeply shocked Tony !- when I was contemplating a career in the MN years ago,and deciding what department to join I saw the recruitment brochures for Merchant Navy Engine Room officers and ratings,.It showed an immaculate machinery space(not a splashed drop of oil anywhere)with beaming,enthusiastic personnel all wearing pristine white boiler suits.Do you mean to say that was all lies then ?

[j.sabourn]

Who supplied the boiler suits. John Sabourn

[cappy]

George robi promised best Egyptian cotton lasted one wash

[Tony Wilding]

most Ships i was on we wore Jeans, on Watts Watts we used Boiler Suits, sold them in the slop chest. but i dont think it was compulsory, i used one as Canada was cold and the Engine Room was very cold at times, have even worn a Pullover underneath. they were navy blue.

[robpage]

Gulf Oil , when taken in house off of Watts Watts , supplied Boiler suits to save flying out the extra weight of Boiler Suit and boots , they were often the old dirty ones left behind by the crew you had relieved , so I thought sod the expense and took mine home after I was issued new ones

[Paul Rennison]

Galley boy on MV Silver Comet, January 1965, Central dry dock Hull to Tenerife for tomatoes, seasick all night for first and only time, cook made me soogie galley next day and remember wishing I was home, but going through the channel and Biscay storms in a 300 ton ship was a fantastic experience, next 7 years were the best of my young life.
Paul

[Lou Barron]

Even got sea sick going from pier head to Woodside on the ferry