Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)

[Alan Trueman]

I was senior apprentice on Velletia (Shell tanker ) Durban to Singapore,
and crew presented me with a big wooden 'key of the door' , painted silver

[Doc Vernon]

Good job it wasnt a Wooden Spoon Alan LOL

[Lewis McColl]

Philadelphia alongside, first trip deep sea M/V Dumurra. Lads had organised a party with nurses from a local hospital. Two nurses joined me in my cabin for a deck head survey. I could hardly walk for a week.

[happy daze john in oz]

Philadelphia alongside, first trip deep sea M/V Dumurra. Lads had organised a party with nurses from a local hospital. Two nurses joined me in my cabin for a deck head survey. I could hardly walk for a week.

Lewis, I have over time heard it called many things but a deck head survey?????
Almost as good as Riding St. George

[Ivan Cloherty]

Philadelphia alongside, first trip deep sea M/V Dumurra. Lads had organised a party with nurses from a local hospital. Two nurses joined me in my cabin for a deck head survey. I could hardly walk for a week.

Wasting your time again Lewis, will you never learn, deckhead survey indeed, you should have been studying the milk churns.

[Captain Kong]

I was in New York on the old FRANCONIA, in 1956, A few beers in the Market Diner, a few kisses off Cadillac Kate and then dancing with the girls in TOMMY DORSEY`S Club on Broadway till 5am...............
Fantastic night.
Brian

[Lewis McColl]

Ivan,I was being a gentleman, and saving the poor girls from taking my weight, I even removed my engine room boots, but kept me socks on.

[Harry Nicholson]

1959 Somewhere between Gib and Finisterre on SS Mawana (Calcutta to London), hoping to be home for my wedding in a month's time. Poor lass had to organise the entire affair - I just had to arrive on the day in a respectable uniform.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Same as me Harry,
I arrived home a week before my wedding.
Wife to be had done it all, even the wedding licence.
She hated doing that as she was in her nursing outfit.
Says all of the men there kept looking at her belly.
Claims that I still owe her seven and sixpence.

[Dennis McGuckin]

And NO she wasn't pregnant.