Fitheach Ban Topsail Schooner

[Chris Allman]

Richard, I will try this :-

1 Fifeath Ban

2. White Raven

3. Seaspray

4. Adventures of the Seaspray

5. Joe McCormick or Walter Brown

6. Fiji

> She was officially owned by Capt Tregidga from at least 1960 until 1968 when
> the listing changed to "Schooner Ferries Ltd, Southampton, and
> homeport to Lautoka, Fiji.


Chris.

[Keith at Tregenna]

I have no idea to if it is correct, thought of that but do not know of a film connection, it was a major TV affair in Australia if that counts, that is what made me think of Fiji. intrested to find out now.

K.

[Richard Quartermaine]

You have guessed right Keith, it is Fiji and the Pacific. Now it is just the others to go.

Richard

[Richard Quartermaine]

Correction!!! I did not look on page 2.

Very well done Chris. Congratulations

There is more under the TV series "Adventures in Paradise".

As with my Quiz posts their is more to tell which may I hope be of interest but I have an early appointment half way down the Mountain this morning and will continue later today.

Cheers,

Richard

[Keith at Tregenna]

Well done Chris:

The film bit threw me out, rather than TV, but kept me engrossed and learned much. That's what it is all about.

Regard's,

Keith.

[Keith at Tregenna]

their is more to tell which may I hope be of interest. Cheers, Richard

Await the next instalment, if this quiz thread closes, please tell more elswhere.

LOVED THIS ONE !

K.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Will do, Keith - gotta go
R

[happy daze john in oz]

Correction!!! I did not look on page 2.

Richard, the last time I was half way down a mountain it was with a bottle from a shabeen queen in Cape Town. Now don't tell me you are getting in to it!!!!!

[Richard Quartermaine]

I do like writing about things of the past as I find it is a bit like reliving them, so if I do go on a bit, please bear with me.

In the late 1940s my sister Yvonne and her husband John Graham Pettitt went to Lautoka, Fiji where John was posted to take up the position of Boilermaker with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) sugar mill at Lautoka. In 1959 the TV series was no longer being filmed and 'Fitheach Ban' lay at anchor at Lautoka.

John and Yvonne saw the potential and bought Fitheach Ban and set up South Sea Cruises from Lautoka and Nadi to Dick Smith's Plantation Island and Castaway resort. Yvonne, at 86 lives in Gosford, NSW. John died in February this year being in Australia for medical treatment from his home in Lautoka. Their son Michael sold up his marine import business in Nadi last year and has come to Australia to be with his mother at this time in her life.

I was posted to Suva, Fiji in June 1959 with Queensland Insurance Company and was transferred to Singapore in January 1968. Like Yvonne and John who had two boys Margaret and I had a son and daughter all born in Fiji. We had a good life there and had many happy times on 'Fitheach Ban'.

I will phone Yvonne this evening for more information and clarification of the detail posted by Chris. I think that John's employment and contract with CSR at the time could have affected some detail.

Pictures are: Our 'Sundays at Sea', On an Island off Lautoka, Yvonne and Margaret at Lautoka and Stopping over with Yvonne on my way back to Oz after leaving the MN.
Richard

[cappy]

Richard don't apologise for old stories thy are what the site is about lautoka is a beautiful place I was there in 61 and of cause picking up sugar ......when we sailed I found a young Fijian boy hiding in a locker ....as he put it he wanted to see robin hood and merrie England we put him asore I think with the pilot boat coming back out or similar ...its always good to hear old stories two many banging on about politics just my view best wishes cappy