[Lloyd Housley]

My pleasure, I'm still looking looking for the pictures I promised, in fact just having a dig about now.

[tiachapman]

have you any with SAMMY on ???.

[Lloyd Housley]

Sure have, just a couple. I'll dig them out and post them. Got a couple of him in full cry!!

[Lloyd Housley]

Hi Guys,
I don't know who's out there or who knows me but here goes a venture about our old outfit which I hope may be of some interest.

https://sites.google.com/site/bolton...pingcoltd/home

I did point a finger in it's direction a couple of weeks ago to someone I was chatting with but didn't realise I was going public
Anyway I've moved it all on a bit since then and hopefully refined the detail and corrected all (some) of the glaring mistakes.
It's not finished yet (and probably never will be) but I've got six ships piccies missing and need loads of '1st Hand' detail for each vessel.
It's not mandatory to contribute of course, but we're not getting any younger, and I don't want our company (or us) to fade away.

Please tell me what you think and give me some yarns.

Regards

[J.J.Millar]

Hi Spanner, I was Choff on Reynolds when we got hit by Finn Forest way back when. I remember it well !

John Millar, still sailing, just

[J.J.Millar]

I joined Bolton SS as apprentice on 14th October 1964, MV 'Ripon', Queens Dock' Cardiff and then Redcar, Ruysdale, Ribblehead, Rubens, Reynolds, Ribera. I left as 2nd Mate, then rejoined BMM as mate on Nosira Lyn some tears later. It's good to see so many names still around !

John J.Millar

[Spanner]

Originally Posted by J.J.Millar

Hi Spanner, I was Choff on Reynolds when we got hit by Finn Forest way back when. I remember it well !

John Millar, still sailing, just

Yes John, I remember it well. I was standing between two generators when the ship heeled over that quickly, I thought the geny behind me had blown up and this was my last breath.
Seemed to remember that the impact buckled the deck in the accomodation (amongst other, more serious, damage) and the 2/E (Tommy Spoor) had to sleep elswhere as his bunk was over the buckle.

[Spanner]

If anyone is still looking at this thread, they might like to know that Pete Newton has created an Ex Boltons group on Facebook.

[chris mackenzie]

i was on deck on the rosetti in 75

[George Marshall]

Originally Posted by Ian J. Huckin

G'day everybody. SN has created this Forum for us, and fellow seafarers, so that we have a place to discuss anything "BOLTONS" and to help stay in touch with each other. I hope you all enjoy this place and I can see we are going to have a great time.

Here is a crew list of those Old Boltonians still kicking...I'm sure we will track down more:

Gordon Carey
Derek Chapman
Peter Charnley
Nick Chell
Simon Coate
Chris Cooke
Jim Cooper
Howard Cox
Peter Davidson
Keith Fulker
David Fullwood
Malcolm Gator
Lloyd Housley
Ian Huckin
Geoff Long
Phil Pick
Peter Sandvid
Stuart Tait
Terry Upson
Colin Wilson

Between us I am sure we have a huge inventory of stories, experiences and pictures. Let's share them......(If we make relevant posts elsewhere would it be worth including them here too?)

Best wishes all,

Ian

Hi My name is George Marshall , Motorman,
I Sailed on the Sharon / Madelline.
for 3 years. hELLO TO ANYBODY WHO REMEMBERS ME ?