longest time between ports

[Jim Brady]

Mr Hughes if you have signed crew on and off you should know there is no such rank as Stewards Boy.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[corrientes]

I should hunt around for another platform on which to blow your trumpet as I suspect that, judging by your forum attitude, this one will soon be unavailable to you. There are others where you would not have lasted as long. Life around you must be an absolute hell.

[Jim Brady]

Mr.Hughes,nothing secretive about Discharge Book numbers is there? lets have yours,lets see if you are the real article.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[happy daze john in oz]

I have searched diligently and can find no reference to a 'Stewards boy'. Most of the junior catering began life as Bell Boy, or maybe Galley Boy, but have never heard of a Stewards Boy. Maybe it is a Blu Flu terminology?

[Keith Tindell]

Now now children, play nicely

[stewart morrison]

Nice to read of all the slow boats to China and everywhere else as at least they eventually got somewhere
. In my case we would spend about four weeks on station about 200 miles off Iceland on the weather ships
and the only thing we ever saw was schools of whales during that time. Mind you the skipper put out a life
raft mid Atlantic for us to have a swim in the ocean, said it was good emergency practise. So we shipped out
of Greenock and got back to the same port 5 weeks later.
Just remembered we had a mail drop from a shackleton plane which helped break the monotony of not
moving except to get on station occasionally. Glad to say the rest of my service over 8 years was a bit more exciting especially New Zealand, cheers shipmates.

[Gordon Turnbull]

Hah, just thought of an even worse one!!!! Cannot remember which ship it was, thing British Renown. Joined just as she arrived offshore Brunei, left four months later, still offshore Brunei. Never moved, never saw port. Woeful, apart from Saturday afternoon cricket matches :-)

[Lou Barron]

Sorry Charles,but you are way out on the dates of that voyage. As Singapore fell to the Japs ,15th Feb !942
and was held by them, till September !945.
The U.S.S. West -Point (S.S AMERICA) later to become the Australis ,on the Migrant run .The deck Crew ,Cut the mooring ropes with axes ,as the Jap Troops were advancing along the Wharf. That was early february;42.

hi evan sorry i should have mentioned why it was so long a trip but i think you have got your history a bit wrong as regards to the uss west point i was onthe duchess of bedford and the west point wasin the same convoy as us with another american ship the wakefield and the empress of scotland ex japan and the empire star we arrived in singapore on the 29th january 42 and we left on the 2nd jan the west point and the wakefield left at the same time the japs was not on singapore island at that time the empire star was one of the last ship to leave little did think i would be back in singapore later that year under different circumstances

[graham mcglone]

I think my longest passage at sea must be aboard Shaw Savill's Icenic. We departed Genoa 31 May 1966, and after going through the Suez Canal and stopping at Aden for bunkers (neither of which count because ya hardly stop and ya can't get ashore), we arrived at Auckland 28 June - that's 29 days. Total distance is 10,785 nautical miles. Jeezus, after that long trip I needed a pint of amber nectar in Ma Gleason's!

[Michael Johnson]

the longest i was between ports was 45 days between ba and japan bunkered twice capetown and hongkong tied up at the bouys the night kennedy got shot