The wit of shipboard Queens

[Tony Draycott]

One of the most irritating things about the 'girl' stewards was that they could always be seen ashore with the younger, beautiful female passengers.
We stood no chance, knowing little of lipstick, makeup or fashion; we just wanted to get our leg over

[john sutton]

If you were on a cargo boat or tanker one of the best things was to have a chief steward that batted for the other side .He would always make sure that his "boys" were well fed and looked after.I have never been on a ship that was a bad feeder with one of them in charge of the catering and never did see any approaches made to any of the hands

[Doc Vernon]

Yes John W
I wish I had taken heed of that advice in my Days ,but sadly I was too interested in the Booze,and Girls which like many others gave very little time to gaze at things a bit more interesting! LOL
Missed quite a bit of sight seeing, but I suppose on the whole saw enough to educate myself!

Oh yes I know the feeling of the Top of that lovely Mountain,in Cape Town(also my home town) but its beauty and its views are still something to behold!
I recall the first Trip when I left Cape Town and seeing that Mountain disappearing from view! How sad I was,but also elated that I managed to join the great BMN.

Then recall the first time going back and this time that Mountain coming into view! It was awesome! Going up that Cable Car even ion those days was something really special,but been back a few times and up and down the Mountain again! Just love it!

Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes John W
I wish I had taken heed of that advice in my Days
Then recall the first time going back and this time that Mountain coming into view! It was awesome! Going up that Cable Car even ion those days was something really special,but been back a few times and up and down the Mountain again! Just love it!

Cheers

Vernon, arriving as a young 16 year old or so I first saw the mountain and said to myself, I am going up there. On the return trip from Durban on my day off up I went. It is one of the wonders of the world to stand up there and see so much around you. Went up about 4 times over the years on UCL.

[Keith Tindell]

I was intending to get to the table top many times, but Delmincoes kept getting in the way, however made it a few years ago with the wife, so she was a good choke chain, and Delimnicoes gone anyway, agree it was lovely sight, but suddenly the fog rolled in, and the hooter went for us all to gat back to the cable car. Capetown was a much nicer place now than when I first visited on the Stirling Castle 1958' kt

[Chris Isaac]

Hi All.
How so very different than the unshaven tossers of today who call themselves Gays!!
Cheers Des

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Now that's nostalgia for you, they don't even make Gays like they once did.

[John Gill]

Now that's nostalgia for you, they don't even make Gays like they once did.

I think it is still'sugar and spice and all things nice'

[happy daze john in oz]

So very true, when we consider the ones at sea with us and now compare with the ones ashore it is like chalk and cheese. At sea we knew just who was who, now know one knows unless you go to the Mardi Gras. The percentage of the population is also on the increase and given that being genuinely gay is a birth defect, for want of a better term, then how many more will there be. Is the defect aresult of interbreading I wonder?

[John Blaney]

The "Ship Inn", Birkenhead, across the river from Liverpool had a great piano player who was
bent as a ha'penny watch, favourite tune was "Calendar Girl", a "queen" off one of the ships I think,
loved the atmosphere in that bar and think he/she created it.

[Jim Brady]

London on the Kenuta a couple of the lads had brought this girl aboard how they got her into the docks I don't know but getting her back out of the gate was another story.We had one of the girls Frisco with us, Frisco was enjoying every minute of the situation of how to get the girl ashore.It was suggested to Frisco that he should take the girl out of the docks and tell the bobby on the gate that she was his sister the policeman would be alright with that.Frisco was having none of it,imagine this in an exaggerated female voice,"You've had the sweet now take the bitters if you bothered with me you wouldn't be in the trouble that your in now" it was so funny at the time.
Regards.
jim.B.