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Joined her in London in 1961 as a first trip cadet.
Luxury accommodation photos in my gallery!
 

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you may have had the luxury acc as a cadet i did a trip on her in 1959 joined in nov in hamburg metal bulkhead on outside of cabin , dam near froze and went via u k to s africa and was laid up on the mole at duncan dock nr the tanker berth for 6 weeks .
skipper and c steward on the sauce ant the crew fed rubbish came home and was ashore for 6 weeks recovering from a dose of boils and starvation.
 

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Sounds like a great trip you had!

Also spent 6 weeks laid up in Durban once waiting for the fruit season to start.

Don't remember much about the food on that trip but being a young cadet we were always hungry so would eat anything!
 

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