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    Think the last part was true John.
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    hi castleman, i got a lift home from mombasa on the tintagel castle in 1962, i had jumped ship and came home dbs, sat for sixs weeks in momabsa waiting, mind you they looked after me, if you know what i mean, that was last ship i sailed on, i had sailed on about 10 ships between 1956 1962 then took up truck driving for 42 years, now retired and living in spain, as they say, ive been about a bit and i would do it all over again , hope i didnt bore you, all the best mike

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    Hi Mike K
    Never bored to read any stories from the old days mate!
    Well i never jumped any Ship,but i was also sent back to Cape Town as DBS on the ols Athlone Castle in 1964,bit of a long story haha!
    Yes all those Exotic Ports (well if you could call them that haha) gee you waited quite some time at Mombassa,must have had quite a time there! Mmmm! I can just guess! LOL
    I went around Africa too and really enjpyed those Intermediate Trips,should have actually stayed with that run a lot longer,instead of going to the Mial Run
    My first SHIP was the old Dunnottar Castle fron\m Cape Town,and boy what an experience for a young greenhorn !
    Yes sure would do it all again to Mike thats for sure!
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    Hey!

    My name is Rodney Mills, member since march , 2010. D.B.N. R602188. Full D.B. Info. posted by error on Union Castle forum under Winchester Castle. Sailed as galley boy on the Good Hope Castle, home trade 25-2-55 - 15-3-55 to Antwerp and Emden via K.G.V.

    Retired and enjoying life in South Carolina. So assume we were shipmates.

    So good sailing from one dinosaur to another.

    Rodney

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    To Alf Valentine re. Goodhope Castle.

    My third ship was Goodhope Castle, Galley Boy, Home Trade, K.G.V. - Antwerp - Emden - K.G.V. 25-2-55 - 15-3-55.
    Full history posted on Union-Castle site. Was in Tassie Oz day 88, 200th birthday, loved it. In small Maritime Museum in Hobart was a model of my first ship Port Jackson. Took photos and treasure them. My wife and I bought a camper in Cairns Qld. drove around Oz, loved it , the people, sceanery, way of life, we stored our camper and kept coming back for six months each year for thirteen years. We even drove our camper in the Oz Birthday parade with a bloody great sign saying "The U.S.A. wishes Oz A Happy Birthday". Anyway, it seems we were once upon a time shipmates. Good luck and best wishes.

    Rodney Mills. South Carolina (where nothing could be finer).

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    i have been trying to find out if they are any still anybody still alived who suvived the sinking of the gloucester castle but i have not had any success me being a young guy at that time i think i must be the only one still alive i did get to meet up with a barry lane who lived in hemel hampstead when i was in the uk in 1993 and 1995 but he died a few years ago it would be nice to hear from anyone lou barron

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    Hi Charles
    You most probaby may well be the last one standing,but i suppose there is hope that one or two others may still be out there somewhere!
    Hopefully if there are,they may jsut see your post! Who knows ,its a small World!
    Good luck!
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    GLOUCESTER CASTLE (July 15, 1942)

    Union Castle Line passenger ship of 7,999 tons and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser, was attacked off the Ascension Islands, by German commerce raider Michel during a voyage from Birkenhead to Cape Town, South Africa. All her starboard side lifeboats were destroyed after which she sank about ten minutes later. Of her complement of 12 passengers (all women and children) and 142 crew, a total of 93 souls perished. Two lifeboats escaped the scene carrying 61 survivors but was later picked up by the Michel and transferred to her supply tanker, the Charlotte Schliemann, which transported them to Yokohama, Japan, where they were interned for the rest of the war. Two of the survivors died while in Japanese captivity.
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    the old ship was certainly no armed mn cruiser we had a 1906 4 .7 gun and 2 lewis machine guns i could say a lot more but that is history

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    Yes our parths have crossed as I was on the Richmond Castle fron 8/4/67 to 31/5/67 as AB Southhampton to Southampton ,calling at Capetown ,Durban ,Lerco Marks ,and back to Capetown where we spent quite a few weeks as had engine problems . Remember rading the galley late at night . Throwing the Deck boy in the canvas pool full of spottie small sharks we caught while at anchor and watching the poor kid walking on water screaming .
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    Wilky see my reply to your letter re Richmond Castle below on this page ,,,,Mike Rossouw AB
    Michael Rossouw [KIWI]

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