1966 Royal Mail Line "Aragon/GVVT". C/R/O was Rollason, 2/R/O Jack Barter.
Captain was named Fox I think. Very snooty company with little to be snooty about.........
rgds
Graham Powell
Like Ray.......GHFJ, Naess Sovereign in drydock in Rotterdam 9.4.63, though we arrived in Rotterdam 4th April because my Chief, C.G.L.McKee wanted to do a tax year.
MV ***berland C/R/O Archie McGuigan ex NZS Capt H.R Phillips the man was a gent. me 2/R/O Archie sent TR to GNF I sent one to PCH Archie never set foot in the Radio Room again for 6 months!!! happy days....
Chris - I reckon that was Archie McGuiness, he liked the H-Boats with the Radio Room and accommodation on the boat deck aft of the funnel. Out of sight, out of mind. went round the land with him on Hinakura, he was coasting for a while after an operation.
Chris,
I remember Robin Philips, he left the ship as part of crew change when we were in Pireaus May '75. Sadly passed due to terminal cancer just a few months later
we found out.
Bill
Bill
Sorry to hear about Capt Phillips, he was my first old man!! pity the rest of them where not more like him...Apart from him going on the piss with Archie he was a proper gent...I guess Archie must be gone by now...last I heard of him was a mate of mine relieved him of the Wild Flamingo I think it was in Rotterdam.
Somerset GJVL, Capt'n Brian Austin-Smith, Mate Peter Grimes, 2/O John Spurdall. Unfortunately I forget who was the Sparkie, a big bloke with a beard who liked the 'Odd' beverage.
March 1975 Cayzer Irvine's Elbe Ore/GWME - included dry dockings in Rotterdam and North Shields where name changed to King Richard. After two months on the bulk carrier it was off to Windsor Castle/GVTG as 4/R/O. Chalk and cheese.
KWZD
The Black Douglas, a Fish and Wildlife research ship. My first trip to sea as a unpaid deck boy in 1962 at the age of 16, followed by a trip as OS in 1963. Why in the world I have that call sign branded in my brain is beyond my comprehension, but it is!
Wallace
thats the point ...its surprising after all these years that things like callsigns just never go away... i can remember almost all of them but the first one never goes....like a virgin (Jester) hell i went into coast stations and got hammered with more of em!!!
Born in Lancashire 12 10 33 on a Thursday, sailed on my first trip on 12 10 50 on a Thursday on the Lancashire a troopship bound for Korea. Call sign engraved in my memory G L Z C.
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