I wrote to Owen late last year and got a reply but not sure if he published it.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendennis
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I wrote to Owen late last year and got a reply but not sure if he published it.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendennis
I also saild under Captain black,oct 56/57.Spent exmas in capetown,mainly in the Delmonica, not sure about spelling.We arrived on chistmas eve two other ships arrived at the same time.a yankee destroyer,and a empire troop ship,full of our tommies on their way home from the far east.The delmonica was so full we were drinking on the pavements,must have been 3/4 hundred there all told,I dont know what started it but suddenly all hell let loose,there was glasses,bottles tables chairs and any thing else at hand flying.It all spilled out onto the road and a couple of vans of police arrived.They took one look got back into their vans and dissapeared again.then the yanks M.Ps arrived,and done the same.it eventualy cooled down Ithink we were all nackered.started drinking again and singing Carols.The yanks and tommies were all confined to their ships the next day because of the fighting,we had Capetown to ourselves.Sorry I forgot to say the ship's name it was the Good Hope Castle.registered in capetown.
cheers Marty.
Hello Marty,
I'd have to say that we didn't go to Cape Town in the Fort Carillon- about the only pport between Suez and Walvis bay that we missed!
I did go ashore there when in the Dominion Monarch but was probably too broke to go to Delmonico's!
Tell me, what are your memories of Captain Black?
Cheeers
Alistair Kerr
KiwiAB
Hello KiwiAb On The M.V.Sutherland inthe 1940"s the crew were asked to leave Delmonico"S as we were "improperly dressed" no one was wearing a tie,we ended up in the" wites only" end of a very long bar going ashore for a few pints with a tie on? naw.
Cheers Allan.
G'day Allan, there was a time when you could not get into the bar of the Grand Hotel in Cape Town during the evening unless you were wearing a suit. Thankfully times have changed.
hello kiwi ab. captain black was a entleman. he once gave me a rollicking for being late with a pot of tea. i thought he was going to cry. i burst out laughing so did the mate, and even when i was playing records after midnight he only ased me to turn it down a little. cheers. alfQuote:
Originally Posted by KiwiAB
By no stretch of any imagination can it be said to include only officers.
I have now taken over the running of this site and am currently rebuilding it using modern technology.
In future it will have a new address and will include ALL of the British & Commonwealth Group.
If any of you wish to be included then please send me a private message giving me your email address so that I can send you a document to fill in with your details.
I want to hear from as many of you as possible that sailed on any B&C ship in any capacity. I want to hear personal stories and would love any old photos. If you do have old slides/negatives then they can be posted to me and I can scan them and return them.
The new site will go live in a few weeks time.
Hoping to hear from as many of you as possible.
Regards
Chris Isaac
PS the purpose of the site is to provide your children/grand children/great grand children with answers to what you did when you were at sea.
Hi Harvey,
East London has changed for the worse. It was a lovely little town in the early 50s but not anymore.
I was in East London in December 1953 when my mate, Ken Hignett was drowned at Bonza Bay and I was taken to hospital there. see "A Voyage on the New Zealand Star" in the seafaring stories thread in Swinging the Lamp.
I went back in 2001, to find his grave, and the town had been taken over by the Africans and it was totally unsafe to walk the street then, even the cemetery was unsafe from being mugged and battered. I was escorted there by friends who stood guard while I attended the grave.
The Seamens Mission on Buffalo Street was closed and was now a school, I saw the Head and she took me around inside.
Friends who once lived there including the lad who saved my life had all gone to better places.
Very sad.
Cheers
Brian.
In Reply to Post #8 from HDJ then I was going to say if you had signed on in your own name rather than Union Castle Martha you might be listed too , but that will only cause dissension , so i won;t say it :rollinglaugh:
Reading post # 18 from Brian , I think a good Quiz would be name the port where Brian has not been to the Hospital ,. but that could be a tough one