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[Richard Quartermaine]

That's right John. In the latter 1940s I used to look up the overseas ships in port and arriving/sailing and that's how I got my three jobs on British ships when someone skinned out.
Richard

[happy daze john in oz]

I often wonder about the term, 'recycled' particularly when it comes to toilet paper. How do youy recycle such an item, do they separate it at the sewage works, dry it out and put it in anice looking packet?

[John F Collier]

I often wonder about the term, 'recycled' particularly when it comes to toilet paper. How do youy recycle such an item, do they separate it at the sewage works, dry it out and put it in anice looking packet?

Not sure how it's done John but that's what the supermarket tissues are made from, "not many people know that"
cheers JFC

[John Arton]

There is a paper recycling plant on the banks of the MSC just before to reach Manisty Wharf an it has a huge tank where all the recycled paper is bleached first before being turned firstly into paper pulp. The stink from it is just the same as you get when berthed alongside those paper pulp mills in B.C.
As you pass it you see the waste products from the recycled paper raw material, usually old newspapers, magazines, telephone directories etc. (but no used netty paper, that dissolves in the sewage systems which I was told was the print inks that are sold as garden fertiliser.
Recycled pulp can be bleached with the same chemicals used to bleach virgin pulp, but hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydrosulfite are the most common bleaching agents. Recycled pulp, or paper made from it, is known as PCF (process chlorine free) if no chlorine-containing compounds were used in the recycling process
rgds
JA

[John Pruden]

50/60s Liverpool echo that was the first thing we looked at 3 brothers before me at sea at the same time mother could work out to the day when mail come from them good days? jp

[j.sabourn]

As per title of Post..and courtesy of Flirting the Issues.
Are we witnessing the demise of the newspapers as a disseminator of information and where exactly in a car engine can you find the disseminator ?
By the time you read a newspaper, all the events reported in it happened yesterday. With the electronic media, news stories can be delivered much earlier, sometimes even while they happen. This enables news consumers to become depressed more quickly than ever before.
So if you want to know the correct time or are wondering if the 4 minute warning has sounded prior to a nuclear strike on your neighbourhood, dont pick up a newspaper. By the time the information has been published both you and the paper would be grey dust swirling around a rather bleak landscape looking for somewhere to settle.
Nervous citizens who want early warning of nucleur strikes so that they can grab teddy and sprint for their fall out shelter should buy a radio. And try to stay awake in case the French decide to attack at night.
So are newspapers about to become media dinosaurs ? I think not. For example the newspaper is more user-friendly than the remote controlled television. It doesnt need to be programmed. It doesnt fail to record something because your not smart enough to understand the translated instructions. Whats there to understand with a newspaper? You open it up and there it is, then you close it again simple. ... This bloke does go on a bit and tends to drive one potty so will leave it there. JWS

[happy daze john in oz]

John, one report recently stated that newspapers may be history within 15 years. Daily sales shrink at an alarming rate as the younger generation have no use for them.
we only buy the Saturday and Sunday ones and they are beginning to collect more crap then ever. Take out the sports section and there is little news left.

[Lewis McColl]

Lloyd's List - single user 12 month subscription - $3,350 perhaps this is the reason it is not in your local news agents these days? we used to get back issues sent out to the ships sometimes in the crew mail. Crew mail now there is another thing that all but disappeared as companies started to say that because of security concerns they would no longer send mail apart from official company mail. I kid you not , BP etc would send Christmas card if they were received in an unsealed envelope but also depending or were their ships were trading to and from. They and other companies would supply an agents address if asked. When I would for Ocean Fleets in the 60's/70's we would get a list of the agents addresses for that trip and also a posting date from UK so as mail could catch you on arrival. I am sure other liner companies operated similar systems. With most ships having computers and internet access these days Pigeon post or steam mail is a thing of the past. But let's face it a Dear John email is not as much fun to pin on the dart board as a hand wrten one lol.

[Ivan Cloherty]

That's right John. In the latter 1940s I used to look up the overseas ships in port and arriving/sailing and that's how I got my three jobs on British ships when someone skinned out.
Richard

The annual subscription for Lloyds List or Journal of Commerce is now over £2000 per annum each, I remember going to Hull Library and reading them for free. It was through reading them I chose my company to apply for cadetship (PSNC) they have a lot to answer for!!

[j.sabourn]

#19.... That's over 20 years wages when we started Ivan. Do you think we can claim anything from the owners of the paper for the times we stood on the wing of the bridge in the pouring rain sometimes answering the lamp off Gibraltar or Lands End when they called you up and asked if you wanted reported to Lloyds. Should have said I don't know, ask me another. Cheers JWS.