Originally Posted by
John Robey
Hi Frank thanks for the contact it is good to hear from you. It was a long, long time ago!! But looking at my discharge book (I know very sad.. kept them all) it looks as though the Capt. was G Clarke (or similar); Chief Officer was R.Riley, its very difficult to make the names out. Did you sail on any other Port boats? What was an a/s? I'm thinking assistant steward?
We did have some fun in those days and nights in the rec,room bar) and the crews were always up for a laugh, well most of them anyway, always the odd one. I remember getting our beer ration from 2nd steward and saving it up for the weekend. Fags were 5 shillings (25p in today's petty cash) for 200. Movies on the aft passenger deck.