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    hi doc #5
    the episode i wrote about was definitely of the era and your ( Boet ) would have been there at that time, Mad Mike Hoare as he was titled was also the leader,
    but as i tried succinctly to point out in todays politically correct world you know who will be named the baddie.
    and although these things should never be brushed under the carpet or indeed masked to appease others, i regret the poignant memories it may cause you.
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    ps i believe i kept to the spirit of the dog theme as the title for the mercenaries at the time was Mad dogs of war.

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    Thank you and yes it more than likely was that time!
    As you say and another quote was just " Mad Dog Mike Hoare?
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    We had a 'mad dog' head chef on the Windsor at one time.

    There was a small galley set to one side to cater for the Kosher bloods of which there were always a good number on any voyage to and from South Africa,
    He would get the butcher to cut up sides of pork in there, thought it was a great laugh and even better if a Rabi who may have been on board had blessed it.
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    #1 Lewis wasn't sure if you were referring to what in the modern parlance is a rather plain jane or a canine but it is the latter.

    Only once carried animals as cargo, three horses in stalls on the after deck, poor buggers thirty plus days standing upright UK to NZ also a little dog in a kennel on the Engineers deck.
    During a spell of rough weather the 3rd Eng. decided to bring the wee dog into his cabin out of the wind and rain. When the dog craped on his carpet, end of goodwill back in it's kennel.
    Photo of myself with said dog.
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    Well for me all i can add is that as i served only on Passenger Ships, there were no Animals allowed as far as i can recall, so cannot say that i ever sailed with any Dogs Mad or otherwise! Mind you there were the other kind of Dogs at times! LOL
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    Back to the thread :- About 1954 on a PSNC “S Boat”. At sailing a Trained Police dog was placed aboard for Valparaiso, Chile, and the Chief Mate took charge of it, Had it on 4-8 morning and evening. Took it with him when going forward for arrival to anchoring at each of many ports. Part of the routine was for the dog (by Chile no longer on a leash) to jump on and off No2 as they went forward. No 2 Hatch was opened ahead of arrival Antofagasta and the dog jumped into space and died in the hold. Bad enough it was someone’s dog , but a trained Police dog !

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    #16. Keith think I have put in a previous post somewhere . About 1962ish sailed with 3 dogs 2 sheep dogs and a domestic pet , from Liverpool to Auckland NZ as part of the general cargo, incidentally we also carried a corpse in a coffin among other things. The 2 sheepdogs and the pet daschund if remember correctly rather than leave them in kennels on the funnel deck , I as 2 mate kept one of the sheep dogs with me in the cabin, the cook kept the other one and the master the pet dog with him . Needless to say the 2 sheepdogs were for breeding purposes and were on a strict diet supposedly , the cook fed his on mutton chops which were not on the menu. Mine used to come on watch with me and never left my side and we all became very attached to them and was hard parting with them in NZ. Not so the dead lady in the coffin. The old man when loading her said to me 2 mate make sure the coffin is carried up the gangway and put in the hold with all the other spirits and alcohol and make sure everyone sees it going down there . So the coffin was carried up the gangway by the stevedores with caps off and lowered respectfully down number 2 hold among all the booze .There were never any break ins to this hold throughout the voyage. Cheers JS.
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    Another one believe have put on before , was mate in 1964 on a ship in Middlesborough shipyard . In the same yard was one of the freezer ships forget the name but was of the fleet of new builds built for 24 knots and supposedly with Israeli money for conversion if necessary to war purposes. There was an expected sabotage attack forecast for same and the police had patrols and sharpshooters up cranes etc. The police dog handler made a point of coming on board every day to my cabin for tea and tab nabs with his dog to my cabin. I learned a lot about police dogs from him and the dog. E.g. never approach a police dog from behind or it will have you , always approach it head on so it can see you and recognise you as no threat. The Alsatian is not the best of the breeds for all police work , but in general wins on points due to its aggressive appearance , a close winner for intelligence is the Labrador a very intelligent animal but lacks the ferocious appearance . Anyhow in return for my entertaining my 2 guests daily , I was taken up to the police station in Middlesbrough and for those who may have visited it under different circumstances , I can say they had a very nice bar and club room at that time. Cheers JS
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    Another one believe have put on before , was mate in 1964 on a ship in Middlesborough shipyard . In the same yard was one of the freezer ships forget the name but was of the fleet of new builds built for 24 knots and supposedly with Israeli money for conversion if necessary to war purposes. There was an expected sabotage attack forecast for same and the police had patrols and sharpshooters up cranes etc. The police dog handler made a point of coming on board every day to my cabin for tea and tab nabs with his dog to my cabin. I learned a lot about police dogs from him and the dog. E.g. never approach a police dog from behind or it will have you , always approach it head on so it can see you and recognise you as no threat. The Alsatian is not the best of the breeds for all police work , but in general wins on points due to its aggressive appearance , a close winner for intelligence is the Labrador a very intelligent animal but lacks the ferocious appearance . Anyhow in return for my entertaining my 2 guests daily , I was taken up to the police station in Middlesbrough and for those who may have visited it under different circumstances , I can say they had a very nice bar and club room at that time. Cheers JS
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    A pal of mine was a Ben Line cadet and it was the cadets job to look after any police or armed services dogs been taken out to the far East but regularly by the time they arrived out east, they were more like pets rather than trained attack dogs due to all the attention they got from the cadets. On the empress of Canada we had kennels for any emigrant going to Canada to take their pet dog/ cat with them and one night some nut job passenger let them all out. I was on the12-4 with the 2nd mate and the first we knew about it was when a cat wandered into the wheelhouse and started rubbing itself around the helmsman legs. Spent the rest of the watch with the master at arms plus some of the female purserettes searching the whole bloody ship for them, got them all back, even the one in the pig that one of the deck crowd had found wandering the decks, decided to adopt it and had taken it with him to the crew pig for a drink, ended up in a bit of a kerfuffle when at first he refused to give it up. Think the kennels were on the funnel deck and there was an area set aside where the pet owners could exercise their pets.
    On a container ship I was on we carried two giraffes across to Canada in an open topped container on deck, just in front of the wheelhouse and at night it could give you a fright coming into the wheelhouse and seeing two pairs of eyes staring at you through the wheelhouse windows.
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