If this Fish knife could talk

[James Curry]

There is a site on FB called The Liverpool nobody knows, something like that. Regardless spotted these photo's on it.
Only a fish knife but the history of this pice of Cutlery. I wonder whose hands have held this.

Look at the quality, you would pay a few quid for quality like that today.

Liv Sail home1.jpg

Liv Sail Hom 2.jpg

LSH 3.jpg

LSH4.jpg

[Doc Vernon]

Yes indeed they were great Cutlery.
I still have a few such Items in my collection of junk (as i call it LOL) from the UCL Ships i was on, plus a few other small things. Just a keepsake though.
Cheers

[vic mcclymont]

Makes you wonder what happened to all the cutlery from British ships?
Vic

[j.sabourn]

I’m still using some from 60 years ago Vic. On sale of ships were told to take any loose gear , unless Of course it was bolted down, even then there were the enterprising types around JS.

[Bob Montgomery]

I learned to use and set them in 57 at the Vindi ,,,,,never seen one since ........I always say that I had been trained to serve on the Ocean liners that is the 2 Queens but a salt crusted collier instead no fancy stuff there !!

[Doc Vernon]

Makes you wonder what happened to all the cutlery from British ships?
Vic

Viuc mate they say that the Atlantic has a definate path of Silver from Cape Town to Soothampton! LOL
cHEERS

[vic mcclymont]

I heard it was beer cans
Vic

[happy daze john in oz]

No Vic, definitely silver, apart from that exchanged of course for smokes in Las Palmas.
For some reason I often found out when getting home of leave that some UCL towels managed to get into my suitcase.
Never did find out how, mum always asked difficult questions about them.

[John Arton]

Vic
The Canadian Pacific had a big warehouse in Liverpool stocked with carpets, cutlery, dinner services ,linen, etc to resupply or replace the fittings and fixtures for the Empress passenger vessels and when they went the contents of the warehouse was sold for peanuts to a catering super who had lost his job when the last empress was sold. He then managed to provide himself with a large pension pot flogging off the contents of said warehouse.
At that time those of us on the Japanese built tankers and bulkers were hoping to get some decent carpets for our cabins to replace the square slice of carpet that was standard issue from the yard that was more akin to a rug, covering the linoleum decks and some decent cutlery to replace the cheap Japanese stainless steel cutlery.
No chance.
Rgds
J.A