Where were you on your 21st Birthday?

[Alan Hill]

At anchor Port Arthur Texas. Was 3rd Mate Cape Rodney. Ships bar had run dry but I had a bottle of gin and a bottle if vermouth so 4 of us (Sparks, 2 Cadets, and 3/e adjourned to a spare crew cabin for discrete party.

[Rodney Bosworth]

Hi Michael, Yes I remember to swimming area well.
Must of been on. Shell tanker, Asperella or Alinda, EDH.
I went on a walkabout by myself and come across the Fort, with old cannons, and went for a swim, water was like bath water, so warm and you could see to the bottom, so clear, I was the only person around, couldn't do it now from fear of getting robbed,or whatever. About 1967. Migrated to Oz in 73.
Cheers Bozzie.

[Rodney Bosworth]

I also lived dead opposite the Causes Altered Pub, none of it there now.

[j.sabourn]

#65 Ref. Mine 28.1.58. And Ma Carrolls Belfast . Came out the pub with a bottle of whiskey and some bloke s girlfriend. Can’t remember any sandbags around the entrance to the pub at that date so must have been later that seamen became legitimate targets for the IRA, next time in pub a few years later the sandbags were there. Hope it wasn’t because the girls boyfriend was IRA . JS