Seamen never change, or have they done.

[Captain Kong]

I think we are all preserved and pickled in alcohol from all the Rume we have supped.
Keep on dodging that big finger that comes down and Splatt.
Brian

[Ivan Cloherty]

I think we are all preserved and pickled in alcohol from all the Rume we have supped.
Keep on dodging that big finger that comes down and Splatt.
Brian

Life's a lottery Brian, no rhyme or reason as to who are the winners or losers, but it seems the good die young, I never led a blameless life and am still here, my late wife, never smoked or drank, fit as a fiddle always helping others and taken away in just 4 months with cancer at aged 50, life is sure a lottery enjoy every day as if it's your last and hope the big finger misses you.

[John Pruden]

I worked with an old RN man stan I used to pick him up every morning he was a decorator never smoked or drank. in the van every Monday morning still hung over from a long weekend on the drink I would stop at the lights spew up cough my head of the van would stink of ale farts stan would say john change your life you are killing yourself he dropped dead at 49???jp

[John Gill]

#25 I never did trust all that lead in paint John, and of course, secondary toxic farts would'nt have helped either.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, back to the 1960s I hear tales of the Army or Royal Navy or jail ? but never the "Merchant navy or jail? for petty criminals...but I could be wrong...

[Captain Kong]

QUOTE=j.sabourn;162608]Ivan... Remember the Advert in Browns Nautical Almanac of one such young lad with a sextant in his hand taking a sight.
JS and Ivan,
I have just been through my copy of Browns 1975 edtition,, No sign of the Advert, must be in previous editions.
I have seen the Advert many times but where? Not in my Nichols Concise Guide, not in my Reeds Ocean Navigator or my Norries Nautical Tables.
Cheers
Brian

[robpage]

RE #27

In the late 1600′s and early 1700s the country’s population grew rapidly and with it the number of criminals increased. Juries were often reluctant to sentence criminals to the gallows and therefore they would not always pass guilty verdicts. One option was to offer criminals a pardon if they joined the army or navy. The other was transportation.

From Prison History the No Way trut http://www.pmnw.co.uk/?page_id=60

[Captain Kong]

I did hear , in the 50s, the Magistrate, Mr McFarland in Liverpool used to give naughty lads a choice of going to sea or borstal. many went to sea.
Brian.

[j.sabourn]

#28... Was definetly Browns and could have been anytime between 57 and 68. It was put in on all new publications of the Almanac between these times to my knowledgs. Cheers John S

[Captain Kong]

Yes it was John but obviously in earlier years than the one I have here which is 1975,
I do remember the advert and the the lad. They must have discontinued it.
Cheers
Brian