ships i worked on

[Keith Moody]

the ships i served on were...... Gravesend sea Training School. November 1955 short course due to a Polio scare.
(thank goodness.)
RMS Ruahine .............. 17th Dec.1955 - 17 August 1956
Arcadia ............. 7 October 1956 - 22 march 1959
Canterberry ......... 22 may1959-30 september 1960
Maid of orleans
Shepperton ferry
Invicta
M.V. England........... 29 october 1960-31 december 1960
M.V. Goodwin............ 8 february 1961-2 may 1961
S.S. Canberra........... 30 may 1961 - 20 september 1961

anyone who remembers me i would be pleased to hear from by e-mail at kj500@mts.net.
now living in the prairies of Canada at Winnipeg. do not get to see to much of the sea from here.formaly of Dover.

Keith Moody

[happy daze john in oz]

G'day keith and welcome tot he site. Were you deck, catering or engine, you did not say? There is a good chance someone on the site will remember you. So sit back with a cold one and enjoy the voyage.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Keith M
Would just like to give you a warm Welcome to this very good site!
Here you will find lots of info,good Crew and with luck also find a few old Shipmates!
So sit back,relax and just enjoy the trip!
Hope we will have you here for a long time!
A site truly worthy of the British Merchant Navy!
Cheers

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If you have already done this then please accept my apologies!

[Keith Sell]

Hi John, I was on deck, joined as a DHU paid off finally on Esso Bernicia, then emigigrated to Oz

[Bob Sendall]

Hello Keith,

I was on the Canberra same time as you, I was Bell Boy then tourist class winger,

Bob Sendall

[Keith Moody]

tanks for the welcome, i was in catering on all the ships.
discharge book # R635978
keith moody

[Pete Leonard (Bruno)]

Hi.Keith I was on the Arcadia from Sept.1957 to June 1958, which was my last trip to sea. Your name sounds familiar to me, where did you work on the ship? I was a BR with a set of sheds on B deck wich included two of the deluxe suites.
Cheers
Pete

[Keith Moody]

a bit tardy in replying,but am just learning this site. also don`t do much on the computer, i was on the Acadia from 1956-1959 bellboy, tourist winger, first class winger, were you on the ship when we carried that FIjian Prince coming over to see the queen. he died on the way and was offloaded in Bombay, myself and another fellow looked after him in the hospital when he became sick, alternating 4 hour watchs, did you know Denis Holttum, John Taylor (Tag). and i see there is someone looking for Brian Newlands? when i was on there we carried Lord Menzies the PM of Australia, and Lord Nuefield who i had the pleasure of looking after. he used to give me a bottle of brown ale every saturday night. round trip, played merry hell in Sydney when he bought guests on board for dinner and i was not there to serve him, again on docking day in london I asked if he would be in for breakfast and he said no, so on docking at Tilbery stage it was for me over to the bar and have a good pint or two of beer. by the time the chiefs messanger found me i smelled to much of beer to serve in the restuarant. so i got a rollocking for that from the chief steward (Perch). it must also be around this this time that we put on that show "Aladin and his Camp Lamp." main parts done by ADA and Taffy and a few other gays fom peak 41!!!, some of us straight guys also were in it, I was the wicked uncle and we had some dwarfs come on, all of them were over 6ft tall, a lot of it concerned things that happened on the ship, so although a few people were invited by the Captain to come and see it, the captain would not allow us to make it a documentry for showing on Australian TV. for my part we had a special glue to glue on my long moustache however someone left the top of the bottle off and it went all hard, the 2nd night i had to use carpenters glue ( the old stuff boiled in a pot) when time to take it off it would not release and by the next morning when i went to serve lord Nuefield my face was covered in blotch`s and scabs. keith moody

[Neil Morton]

Hi Keith I was a first class waiter on Canberra Dec 19th '62 until the fire in the Med Jan 63 took her home, minus the bloods and half the catering crew who we had unloaded in Malta. Where you there for that one?

[Trader]

Hi Keith,

I didn't sail on any of the ships mentioned, but as you are from Dover are you any relation to Mrs. Moody who was landlady of the Prince Regent (Horse Box) in Dover for many years.

Alec.