Where were you on your 21st Birthday?

[Neil Morris]

Anchored off Nagoya in a (Thankfully small) Typhoon!

[Charles Webb Cooper]

My 21st birthday was on the day we rounded Cape Horn on the way to B.A. to deliver a mob of stud Romney sheep from N.Z. We had provided for the event when loading ships stores in Timaru prior to sailing. With some cooperation from the Baker we diverted several cases of Timaru Bitter into the bakehouse and they were duly opened that evening with several of the catering crew assisting in disposing of the evidence. As each bottle was emptied it was ceremonially broken by hurling it into a corner. There was quite a clean up next morning!

[Malcolm Bennington]

I was just starting my 2 year National Service in the RAF, looking back it was not too bad, pity they stopped it, would sort out todays hoodlums!!

[Tony Draycott]

I cannot remember where I was but it was somewhere in the Pacific near Australia. I was on my first ship, SS Oronsay as Junior RO and we were doing 10 day cruises from Sydney. My very small claim to fame is that both my Uncle and my Dad had their 21st birthdays at sea and both were on a ship called Oronsay. Claim to fame because I wrote to P&O's newsletter who published my letter!! Like I say, only a very minor claim to fame.
Pete Laurie

I also had my 21st on the Oronsay 23/01 1969 somewhere in the Pacific.

[Derek Chadburn]

My 21st Birthday was spent enroute from KG5 to Le Havre on the Shaftesbury as uncert 3/0. Came out inot the Thames at midnight and the old man said well you're a man now! The next morning he left me to cross the TSS on my own. I'm sure he was stood at his port though. Rex Leach a great Master I learned a lot on the 2 trips I did with him. 2nd as 2/0.