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Originally Posted by Tony Wilding
Nice picture, must have been a good company to work for, even got their own bus for touring :0012:
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Originally Posted by Tony Wilding
Nice picture, must have been a good company to work for, even got their own bus for touring :0012:
I expect an Engineer nicked it and hid it out of sight of the mate , a Clan Line Chief Engineer in the Port of Walvis Bay was chastised by those nice South-African Policemen for Borrowing a Railway Engine .he was happily running it up and down the Quay side whilst it had been abandoned by its driver and fireman during their lunchtime . We were delayed sailing on a cargo boat whilst a third engineer returned a very nice memorial bench to the gardens at the top of Adderley Street , Skipper was not impressed ,but it was a nice bench , so a double decker , no problem to a Union Castle Engineer
Good morning Chris,
Thanks for the info. and it would be nice to be included on the list.
Lance Fowler,
Radio Officer,
Ships Pretoria, Cape Town, Edinburgh, Stirling, Riebeck, Kenilworth Castles.
Period 1960-64.
Now retired and living in France.
Out of the fruit season in 1971, on the Clan Ranald we did a general cargo trip, to Mauritius, which included 4 ex London Buses for Lourenco Marques.
During the voyage when the mate was pissed he used sit in the cab of one of the buses and pretend he was driving it.
The 4E who was from Ceylon, used to go and ring the bells.
Hello is there anyone about that was on this ship?
Hello
For years I have wondered what my granddad got up to during WW2 and have started to research the ships he was on.
I know he was torpedo 3 times but as a young child he never told any stories so have little to go on.
I do have a picture of his log book and I'm trying to work my way through the ships and one of they has brought me here.
The Fort Carilon which he was on during 7/7/44 to 8/11/44
his name was Name: Gilligan, John Joseph. Service number: R92768. Date of birth: 20/05/1914.
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