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    Ivan mate, we all had some positive experiences, but for some they would rather forget about them.
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    Life as we once knew it and enjoyed to the fullest.
    Life the kids of today will never know and would be far better citizens if they could.
    It makes one appreciate what we now have and how we had to work for it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marian Gray View Post
    I'm intrigued Bill, do you have any other details of Mrs Gamble? Christian name of her hubby and/or the photographer and the whereabouts of his studio? Any wee snippet please.
    Well Marian, The photo is from a book by a local historian, the caption reads ( Mrs Gamble, well-known skipper in sailing rig ) I have research many avenues but still have drawn a blank.
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    Marion, if you speak with Cappy I think you will find that is his Mary just before she got her wooden leg.
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    One not so positive experience that I can relate and is going back to the poster who knows all about the actual occurence but doubt he knew the outcome later, in his post My worse Christmas at sea , was when one of the victims fell back into his room shot dead. His wife was travelling with him. After all the pandemonium and court cases it was found she was not legally married to the dead man , and received no compensation for her live in partner. Think all insurance monies went to the legal wife. She even had to pay her own fare home. Would imagine she didnt have too fond memories of a life on the ocean wave. JS
    In 1964 I was mate on the Warkworth in King George V dock in Hull. All females had to be off the ship at sunset and that included wives. This was not the company , it was the Harbour Boards Ruling. Not too long after this wives in such vessels were allowed to accompany their husbands under certain circumstances and signing the usual insurance waivers, which I doubt would not be legal in a court of law. The usual excuse not to carry was lifeboat capacity. By todays manning requirements think they would have to look for a different one. As someone said on the average tramp ship the accomodation was not suitable for female crew members, however the shipowner had no qualms for altering that to accomodate the equal rights groups, he had refused for years to better the accomodation so is one thing we should thank the ladies for. JS
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    Just goes to prove you have to be very careful who you take to bed.
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    I was in a port in Scotland, can't remember which one, a girls body was found in the water between a I think a Swedish ship and the wharf, if I remember right she had been murdered then tossed overboard.
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    In 1952 Shaky Mary was found in the dock alongside a Norwegian cjip
    in Leith , I think/

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    JS Your #93

    Well,you know me by now,John,when I'm bored (and not aboard) I like nothing better,apart from a bottle of ice cold Stella,to pick up on a ship mentioned in a post-and yours,like many of the stalwarts on here are always interesting old(ish) vessels,- and trace it's history.
    So here goes.
    m.v.WARKWORTH (ON 186927),completed 5/1962 by Bartram & Sons,Sunderland for Watergate Steam Shipping Co Ltd,Newcastle. Cargo ship,9,721 grt,diesel engine,13k.
    Subsequent History
    1970 SALAMAT-Greek
    1974 PHILIPPA-Greek
    1974 SKYMNOS-Cyprus,then Greek.

    FATE
    With the outbreak of hostilities between Iran and Iraq in Sept.1980,the Greek m.v.SKYMNOS was one of the more than 90 + vessels trapped in Shatt al Arab ports and adjacent Iraqi waterways.
    She lay at the Iraqi port of Fao(Al Faw) where she had arrived on 19/9/80,just before hostilities began in earnest,and having been anchored off the pilot station awaiting a berth since 2nd August.It was during a subsequent Iranian attack on the port of Fao on 9th January a few months later that she was so severely damaged to be declared a War Constructive Total Loss.She was abandoned,caught fire,broke her moorings and drifted into the Shatt al Arab where she remained for the rest of that war.
    A nice looking proper cargo ship-back in the day.186927 WARKWORTH of 1962.jpg

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    That’s her Graham and that was my cabin the deck below the bridge deck outer starboard side. Days of our youth ? Some might say. Still 38 years to go after her. Ships like her were at one time the backbone of the British Merchant Navy. Cheers JS.
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