Shaw savill line

[Jeffrey Kelly]

Hello, just registered today.Greetings to all furness/Shaw savill people if they are out there.
Best regards
Jeff kelly

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hello Geoff, welcome aboard and yep, SS&A 1947 - SS Raranga, 1948 - SS Moreton Bay (Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line) 51/52/53 SS Gothic. Pictures in 'Gallery'. Enjoy the voyage on this great site. Oh yes, from your county, my mother immigrated to Australia in 1924 from Bradford, Yorkshire.
Richard

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hello, just registered today.Greetings to all furness/Shaw savill people if they are out there.
Best regards
Jeff kelly

Are they still building tugs and coastal tankers in Hessle Jeff, or like everywhere else has it been turned into a marina, are you still Yorkshire or now Humberside, I still put Yorkshire on my letters when writing to Hull. Welcome aboard

[John F Collier]

Hi Geoff welcome to the site, I was on WAIWERA and AFRIC in 58. Cheers JC

[Captain Kong]

and I was on the bleddy awful SUEVIC in 1955.
Brian

[Dennis McGuckin]

I too sailed with S.S.
Just can't remember the names of the ships.
Have to look them up.
The joy's of being a senior.

[Charlie Hannah]

SS.Mataroa. SS. Persic

[kurutai]

Funny how times change Brian when i was in the Suevic she was a great ship my brother did his first and only trip with me as DHU that was an experience having your younger brother with you i can still hear my dear old mum "look after him David " he only went because he wanted to save the money to buy a car , we did the Kiwi run out through Panama Fiji ,Samoa , then 2 months on the Kiwi coast then home via Durban and some place in West Africa he was invited to go back as was I she was going out to OZ but he had no interest it takes all sorts I suppose a chance to travel the world for free but it was not for him , when I think back he worked in an office in London I had just got home from the last voyage of the South American saint line I was AB in the ST Essylt he says to me Dave can you get me away to sea with you so I took him down the pool this was in 1965 they said OK and gave us a docket to both join the Trefussis one of Haines we went to see the mate he would not take him his very words were " i,ll take you but not him " ,when I questioned him he said " he is not going to learn at my expense " so i told him " if you dont want him then you don,t want me " I found out years later that she spent months on the Indian coast so I reckon we had a lucky escape regards to all hands Dave .

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hello, just registered today.Greetings to all furness/Shaw savill people if they are out there.
Best regards
Jeff kelly

Welcome aboard you're the second person from Hessle to step aboard in the last month, just momentarily forget who the other one is

[Captain Kong]

Hi Dave, that SUEVIC was a Battleship. worse than the old GEORGIC for battling.
On the Ozzy coast , none stop. At night cabin battened down and locked and a fire axe under the pillow, The Firemen were always bevied and on the Rampage, and a communal mess room didn't help That used to get wrecked daily.
I got fed up of Defending my title every day.
I was in bed with Kanimbla, a nice young lady, who had done many voyages on the `Kanimbla` an Australian passenger coastal ship.when the Firemen came down our alleyway, shouting `whose got the woman`, They hammered on my door, She jumps out of bed, opened the door Head butted the first one and dropped him hit the second one, down to the deck , the third one did a runner down the alleyway, comes back in, locks the door and gets into bed again and then starts weeping. She was a little sensitive was Kanimbla.
Next day she was on the quay in Sydney challenging all the Firemen to fight, not one went down.
Five months of terror on that Suevic, January to June 1955.
Cheers
Brian