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| Subject: Campaign Medals | |
Author: Brian (Site admin) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21/01/08 10:10pm Were Merchant Seamen awarded 'Campaign Medals'? I ask because I have been contacted by the Secretary of the Union Jack Club telling me that Merchant Seamen below Commissioned (?) rank, who were awarded such medals, are entitled to become full members of that club. Brian. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Shipping out | |
Author: Des taff Jenkins (For All good read) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 6/01/08 6:33am Hi All. Just finished reading "Shipping Out" by Gerry Evans. Took me back. But I was amazed at how his writing is close to what i have written but not published, then again we all had the same expierences at 16 to 20s. I have also read his other book when he was on the NZ coast, many blokes mentioned that i sailed with. Cheers Des [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Another Merchant ship lost | |
Author: Del [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15/01/08 2:36pm Sad to see another Merchant ship lost in the English Channel, almost a year to the day after the msc Napoli disaster. Fortunately our fantastic lifeboat crew at Brixham, along with the Portland MCA helicopter managed to rescue all the crew of the cargo vessel Ice Prince. We now await her cargo of sawn timber to wash up on our South Devon coast!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Offshore Supply Boats...? | |
Author: john o'hagan (just curious...?) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20/01/08 6:22am hardly get a mention do they?...anyway, was on the OSA London 2yrs,mid 80s,month on/month off (on deck), working out of Aberdeen then Beverwyck (holland) along with the OSA Dundee serving the TO6 and TO7 Rigs...just wondered if any lads from those boats are still around - or still at it for that matter? - if you have access to a computer e- mail me at > johnohagan4711@hotmail.co.uk < would like to hear from you! John. Middlesbrough. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: nostalgia | |
Author: jim brindley (breakfast) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14/01/08 8:36am after being home for a month playing up . etc . i would like just once more to come down for breakfast and see on the plate my dischard book. and a note saying mind the step as you go out. ah. those were the days . doolayay jim in oz [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: boat show | |
Author: mike (pubs) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15/01/08 3:01pm yesterday i went to the boat show at excel,which is in the victoria dock.on the way i went past the old "connaught" pub.it does look lonely with all the modern buildings around it.and someone has given it a new name. its now called the "yew and connaught",probably because of the large yew tree outside. will try and get a picture sometime when i can afford the train fare and fancy a long walk. best wishes mike in flooded maidstone [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: drivers | |
Author: mike (mark cooksley) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 31/12/07 12:25pm hi, looking for an old friend mark cooksley,who is still an engine driver. mike [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Lloyds voyage record cards. | |
Author: Terry Smith. Vindi 1960/61 [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 7/01/08 9:02pm Does anyone know where Lloyds Voyage Record Cards are kept these days? I got copies of my voyage records from the Guildhall Library in London several years ago, but when someone else tried to obtain theirs recently they were told the library doesn't have them. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks. Terry [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: ss zurichmoor | |
Author: mark jefferson (information) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 8/01/08 10:39pm Any information on the crew of the ss zurichmoor that was sunk leaving Halifax Nova scotia on the 21-5-42 on route for st thomas virgin islands ive found a few of the crews names plus my farther in laws farther James Hutchinson but as iv found out there was 45 crew members can anyone give me more infomation on these men and if poss a picture of this ship thanks MARK [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: John Joseph Tynan | |
Author: Wayne Tynan [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 9/01/08 12:30am I am looking for information regard John Joseph Tynan who served with British Merchant Navy approx 1952. Dad was with the group of ships at Monte Bellos Atomic Tests. Would like any information about the ships etc and of himself. Regards Wayne Tynan [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: James (Jim) Edward Luen. | |
Author: Keith Greenway (HEROES.) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22/11/07 11:13pm We ask that on Saturday 25/11 that all may remember James(Jim) Edward Luen. 25th November 1939. Jen Reynolds a niece of James (Jim) Edward Luen has been working with us on the Tregenna web site in compiling information on the first of hopefully over 600 names on the Barry Merchant Navy Roll of Honour. Here we report on her uncle Jim, a Merchant Naval Chief Officer of Barry. He died in 1939, on the 25th November off the coast of New Foundland / Nova Scotia. Jenny believes that Jim was very brave. She remembers being told that the Captain of the SS. Harlingen called for a volunteer to go over board during a severe storm with German U boat activity in the vicinity. He, Jim as Chief Officer on the HARLINGEN, went to release some tangled vegetation from the propeller. He was able to do this and was hauled aboard with much cheering, then a wave crashed into the ship and he was washed overboard, and never seen again. He was apparently made a posthumous Captain. As Mr Luen was a serving Chief Officer he would of already had a Master's ticket. His details from the CWGC have him noted as Chief Officer. We are certain he was both highly respected and held in high esteem. “I can recall the terrible tears and mourning in my home at the time”. Jen Reynolds. At one time Jim cared for an albatross that landed on deck suffering from exhaustion, but recovered. There is a campaign to save the Albatross, spear headed by an Ellen MacCarthy. So impressed with his kind act, they asked permission to use the photograph in a brochure. LUEN, Chief Officer, JAMES EDWARD, S.S. Harlingen (London). Merchant Navy. 25th November 1939. Age 43. Son of Albert Edward and Rebecca Luen; husband of Violet Victoria Luen, of Barry, Glamorgan. Father of Mary and June. Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial, Panel 55. “Jim and family used to live in WOY WOY, a bungalow at the bottom of Cold Knap Way, as you walked down to the Watchtower beach. Many people remarked on the strange name, but Jim and his wife Violet married in the town of WOY WOY in Australia. WOY WOY is and was next door to where I grew up. WOY WOY was built for Jim, Jim lived there next door to me. ”. Jen R. Jim's eldest daughter, Mary married a South Africaan and has lived in South Africa since she was married. Youngest daughter of Jim, June lives in Symonds Yat. Lorraine Howard, daughter of Mary Luen who was daughter of Jim Luen who was drowned in 1939 recalls: “My grandmother, Violet, told me a story so like this when she visited us in South Africa when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I remember well where we were sitting and she recalled the story for me. She must have found life very hard as did so many others”.. Lorraine Howard. 200 wooden crosses Following this year’s Merchant Navy Association (Wales), Barry Branch, Annual Seafarers’ Service, which was held at The Barry Memorial Hall on Saturday, 15th September 2007. Members on behalf of the Branch laid down 200 wooden crosses at the Seafarers’ monument. The Stone memorial incorporates the names of Barry and Vale merchant seamen who have given their lives at sea during the two world wars. My mum's cousin Jennifer Reynolds forwarded the article "200 wooden crosses" to me and it made mention of Jim Luen. He was my grandfather who was drowned when my mum was only 11 years old. We have always thought of him and the dreadful ordeal he and so many others at sea, had to endure in the 2 World Wars. My mum gave me a small wooden cross which someone gave her and it stands by my bed every night where I can look or hold it and it makes me feel nearer to her. She lives in South Africa now and I live in Ireland. Now my grandfather will have to be included in that cross. Thank you for that. Barry and District News report: Friday 1st December 1939 Tragedy on the high Seas Barry Victim News has reached Barry of the death on Saturday of Captain James Edward Luen, who was washed overboard from his ship off the coast of Nova Scotia. Captain “Jim” Luen as he was known to his large circle of friends in Barry, was the fourth son of Mrs. R. Luen of the cold Knap hotel, Barry and was a native of the town. Attended high street school before going to sea at an early age. During the last war he served for the duration with the Dover Patrol. A keen artist, captain Leun held during 1937-1938 an exhibition of his work in the county hall, London. He was also the author of several books. During the last voyage he saved the lives of two people, by performing an operation of the wireless instructions of a doctor in another ship. He married in Sydney, Australia. Miss Violet Makepeace, fourth daughter of Mr. C. A. Makepeace, J P of Harbour Road, Barry and is survived by his widow and two daughters. The little missus Mary and June Leun, his mother Mrs. R. Leun and brothers. Merss Clive, Dudley, Brindley and Sidney Leun and Mrs. W. Herbert, Mrs. Davey and Mrs. N. Owen (sisters). Apparently a young Jim Luen, walked out of school one day and was not heard of for two years until he came of a ship in Cardiff. Like so many had made what was known as a pier head jump. NB: SS Harlingen was sunk just under two years later by U-75 on 5th August 1941. Behind every name on the Barry – Merchant Navy Role of Honour is a person no longer with us, with family that both grieved and younger members that both still remember and grieve also. It is important that we remember and record the information before as with these brave men, it is lost forever. The intention is to make available to all such information and hope that in our future we may be able to have an interactive Roll of Honour. This, for both descendants and those that also remember and for those that care, to show that those that came after them, did not forget them and to record and preserve much of Barry’s Maritime History. We hope that in time Barry will be able to host such information and memory in a museum or similar for our town and peoples. Meanwhile we can only record and preserve such heroism and memory for such a time that not only does the town remember but can again rise to the occasion as with its own Memorial Hall and this time band together to raise the funds necessary to build such a museum / visitor centre etc to hold its past for our children and our heroes. With a little help from: Keith Greenway@Tregenna. www.ss-tregenna.co.uk hernamewas.ss@tiscali.co.uk Jim Luen is one of over 600 names on the MN – BARRY Roll of Honour – All to be remembered in detail. Example of future Museum entries: Hopefully, in a future museum, or at least on the internet on interactive pages, all on the Barry Merchant Navy Roll of honour, will be further remembered via access of each name, where all will be able to find additional information in tribute to all those lost. KG. EXAMINATION ON OATH. Relating to the death of James Edward Luen on the Harlingen By name and address supplied. I was on the bridge on the morning of 25th Nov 1939. There was a high sea and an E.N.E. gale. At about 9.35a.m. the vessel shipped a heavy sea, and directly afterwards, I heard the First Mate Mr Luen, shouting for help, and could see him in the water about 100 feet to starboard. Four life bouys were thrown to him, and a raft was heaved over the ship's side at once, and I saw him grasp a bouy and get into it. The ship was kept as near to him as possible and on one occasion sighted. It was difficult for the look outs to see him on account of the heavy seas, and I wanted to swim to him with a line attached to a ***** which had been thrown to him and which fell short. It was impossible on account of the seas and the distance and I was restrained. At 11.35 a.m. we came quite close to Mr. Luen and I could see he was unconscious. I volunteered again to go to his assistance and went over to the side to him. The water was extremely cold and owing to the ship rolling and the heavy seas it was difficult to reach him. As he was in a bouy and I was on a swimming bowline he was more bouyant than I was and although I managed to grasp the bouy twice I was unable to hold it. When the those at the other end of the line saw that I myself was in distress and that Mr Luen was by this time out of my reach they hauled me aboard and I was taken to the stewards room for treatment. I saw no more of Mr Luen who was undoubtedly lost by now. I’m satisfied that every possible effort was made to rescue him Signed Roy Dudley Creser 29th December 1939 It was hand written and clearly faded so could not read, one word marked with stars We at the Her name Was Tregenna web site remember Captain Care of Barry, South Wales and his crew of the SS.Tregenna, we further remember all with no known grave but the sea and those in particular at rest at Merthyr Dyfan. Churchill recognised that without the Merchant Navy all would have been lost and Kipling told that without the Merchant Men and Merchant ships – “Britain would starve”. The German determination to destroy our unarmed Merchant ships faster than we could build them was devastating and although every seafarers next voyage may have been and often was his last. Never did such ships fail to have full crews. The bravery of these good men kept our supply lines open and our forces armed, our people were both fed and free. In all conflicts Merchant Men and Ships are called upon when our country calls, as a Town and Port Barry has always played its part. Few streets had no losses in both World Wars and the community grieved heavily. Pride in Barry! There is no doubt and this year 11/11 must have had its largest numbers attending in many years. With so many of the brave, no longer with us, it is marvelous to see the youth of Barry flying the flag. It has often been said ” Let them that come after us, remember us” Barry has shown that as a town and community it Remembers Greatly – Thank you Barry. The Listener 14 March 1940 ‘Man Overboard !’ By Commander A. B. Campbell Do you remember what Kipling said of the men and ships of our merchant navy? No truer word was ever written than this ‘If anything hinders their coming – you’ll starve’; and believe me they get plenty of hindrances these days. Mines, U-boats, and planes are all directed to stopping our merchantmen from carrying raw materials and food-stuffs to this island of ours. We seldom hear of their work but I am privileged in as much as I meet many of them when they come ashore and at great difficulty, can be made to talk about themselves. One day last month I saw a notice in a shipping paper to the effect that a certain officer ‘had been washed overboard and lost’. Just that bare announcement. I have a letter here from a sailor friend who tells me what actually happened on that morning. I will read you his letter. But I must omit any mention of names and places. Believe me this is an actual experience and this is what he says: ‘Perhaps the best thing I can do is to give you a plain untarnished account of the tragic end of our mutual friend and the best shipmate I ever sailed with’. ‘We were bound from Philadelphia to X to pick up a convoy. Yesterday we ran into some really nasty weather, wind force 8, and a dirty sea and swell. These ships almost stop themselves with a head wind and swell and we were making about three knots, when one of the forward ventilators worked loose and the starboard cable which as usual had been secured in hawser pipe with cement also broke loose. The first mate and the carpenter went forward to secure them. They had just finished the job and “Chippy” was still by the windlass whilst the mate had left the fo’c’sle head and was crossing the forward well deck when the first really heavy sea we had shipped came clean over the fo’c’sle head and flooded the well deck. Chippy saw it coming and hung on to the windlass but the first mate was taken seawards and was washed clean over the side’. ‘I was on the bridge at the time and the Old Man yelled “Look out for Chippy”. You can imagine our horror after seeing that Chippy was alright to hear the first mate calling for help twenty yards from the ships side. We immediately let go three lifebelts and I was aft and heaved a raft over side which had been constructed in case we were sunk by the enemy. The first mate managed to get a lifebelt on and then we swung around, but these ships carry their sway for a long time, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that we sighted the raft and subsequently the first mate’. ‘The Old Man deserves the greatest credit for the manner in which he managed to pick him up, especially the second time, for I regret to say that we were unable to get a line to him, because as soon as the engines were stopped we were (SOME TEXT MISSING ) “I was going to try and swim to him but he was a good quarter-of-a mile off, and the steward forced me into his cabin and locked the door. He was quiet right as I found out later… After the first mate had drifted past – and they tell me he was only twenty feet from the lifebuoy at one moment, and we had a line attached to that lifebuoy – the steward unlocked the door and I ran on to the bridge. The sea had by this time increased to such an extent that it was impossible to get a boat away and even if we had, we should never have picked it up again. “Several of us went up the mast again, the ship having swung round I managed to spot him fine on the starboard bow. After the Old Man made a fine job of it for he brought the ship immediately to windward of him so that we drifted down almost alongside. By this time he was unconscious, probably dead, so the line throwing apparatus was useless. To see him drifting by with no chance of getting him aboard was terrible, so I stripped and I attached a bowline round my chest , but the men hung on to me and the steward ran up to the Old Man to ask permission to try to go over the side. The Old Man refused, but I wasn’t going to see the first mate go to his death without a chance, and I think the men must have been almost as frantic as myself. ‘Anyway, over I went. God it was cold. At one moment thirty feet in the air and the next thirty feet under water. The men daren’t slack away too fast in case I slipped out of the running bowline, there having been no time to make a proper job of it. Twice I had him in my arms, but the terrific seas and the ship rolling so so-heavily, that’s tightening the rope round my body and jerking me this way and that, tore him away from me and the men then hauled me aboard. My body was quite uncontrollable with the cold even in the comparatively short time I was in the water, so it is indeed a wonder that the first mate remained conscious as long as he did’. ‘The steward told me later that he ran aft just in time to see the first mate slip out of the belt and sink when he was just abaft the main mast’. ‘The Old Man took one more look round, and then resumed the passage. It was an hour before I could hold a cup to my lips, but hot blankets and massage did the trick, and a couple of hours in my bunk and then on watch again’. ‘This is the end of my sorry report, but I think you can read between the lines and experience with us the hopes and fears of that morning, The utter impotency and sense of bitter defeat, that each of us knew, who loved the first mate and finally gave up hope of rescuing him’. That is all, just a sailors’ account of what to him is all in a day’s work. "There are no graves: no crosses: No where a loved One can shed a tear: We should remember them." Barry’s own David Simpson Also in memory of Mary, recently departed but loved and remembered by the Luen family. As with you all we remember all, but how much of the personal lives and family etc are remembered, we attempt to record what we can now, before all is lost we ask that you may do the same. We will remember LEST WE FORGET, but some of the personal information that may still linger, will soon be gone forever. Please record what you can now. I HOPE THIS IS NOT TO LONG A POSTING, BUT AM CONVINCED PERSONALLY THAT NOT ONLY SHOULD WE REMEMBER AND NEVER FORGET, THAT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAN A NAME ON A PLAQUE ETC, THESE WERE LOVEDONES, HAD LIVES AND I REALLY WANT TO RECORD MEMORIES OF REAL HEROES. RIP. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: john clarke milwain | |
Author: lyn milwain (Sad.) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 5/01/08 4:35pm My Grandfather sailed on the ships when he was a young man. He sailed with The Royal Navy.His name was John Clark Milwain.Any infomation will help. Passed away on the 30/12/07 Thankyou. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Another strike container ship!! | |
Author: Del [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 2/01/08 3:24pm MCA PRESS NOTICE 2 January 2008 CONTAINER VESSEL AGROUND IN DOVER STRAIT A large container vessel ran aground in the Dover Strait this morning and Dover Coastguard has sent the Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel, Anglian Monarch to render assistance and assess the situation. At 5am Dover Coastguard were in contact with the German registered container vessel LT Cortesia after Coastguard radar monitoring of the traffic separation zone indicated she had come to a sudden stop close to the Varne Bank. The crew confirmed that the vessel had run aground on the Varne Bank. The LT Cortesia is a large container vessel of 90,465 Gross Tonnes and was traveling through the Dover Strait in the South West bound lane from Thames Port on route to the Suez when she ran aground on the Varne Bank 9 miles South of Dover Harbour. The vessel has 27 people on board who are all uninjured. Crew members are checking for damage on board but the cargo is reported to be secure and early indications are that the vessel is watertight. There is no reported pollution from the vessel. The Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel, Anglian Monarch is on scene to help evaluate any external damage to the vessel and assess the options for salvage of the vessel. Dover Coastguard and the Anglian Monarch will warn any approaching vessels of the potential navigation hazard posed by the LT Cortesia while she is aground. The LT Cortesia is carrying 42,785 Tonnes of cargo in containers. The tide is now falling and next high water is 6.33pm. Weather on scene is currently South South East force 4 but winds are forecast to strengthen later today to South East backing East 5 or 6, occasionally 7 later. Press releases and further information is available at www.mcga.gov.uk She was reportedly doing around 20 knots at the time of grounding!! I am sure the Varne Bank has been there for sometime nw....one wonders how this happened? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Beauford Dyke | |
Author: David (Arms Dump) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 9/12/07 6:45am Has anyone ever worked on merchant ships that dumped arms and munitions in the Beauford Dyke?. This is a deep water channel between Isle Of Man and the Irish Coast. Lately flares have been picked up on beaches. These arm dumps are no longer safe as they are breaking free from what ever they where sunk in. I have spoken to a sailor who reckons he was on a ship which stopped above the Dyke and unloaded its cargo,they where never told what it was. Any information greatly appreciated. David BI. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: "Scotland Road" | |
Author: Gus [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 29/12/07 9:06pm Just watched Titanic for the umpteenth time - the Leonardo De Caprio one - in the credits they have Scotland Road steward. Any of you passee boat men know why Scotland Road? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: year end | |
Author: ron stewart (daydreaming) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20/12/07 3:10am Wanted to say thanks to all the Merchant Navy sailors out there whereever you are. I love the site and spend hours each week reading all the chat.I still get pleasure looking at pictures of ships that once sailed the seas.Merry Christmas to all.Ron Stewart [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: I am Back | |
Author: Richard Brennan (Better) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 29/12/07 11:32pm Brian, ladies & gentlemen. Here I am-still drinking but controlling it now with doctors' help. Feeling fine and looking forward to 2008. Hope you will accept me back and be assured-NO MORE RUBBISH FROM ME !!! All the best to you all for the New Year. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: For Patricia & Richard | |
Author: Jim Smith R395326 (s) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16/12/07 11:47am For the attention of Patrica and Richard, Have no wish to dent either of your egos nor get involved in any way but would just like to point out to both of you although your postings are welcome please not that this is and always will be BRIAN'S SITE and both of you are just priveleged to be able to use as long as he wishes you too. Jim R395326 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Re: Athelsultan | |
Author: Andy Proudfoot [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 24/12/07 1:33am Hello all... My father - William Russell Proudfoot - survived the sinking of the Athelsultan. He would have been 19 years old. He was one of the ships (not the convoy commodores - who was also onboard and had his own signaller) radio officers. He was off watch and asleep when the torpedo hit. He was on a Caley float with a few others but one of the other survivors passed away before they were picked up. He talks vividly about the episode and some of the crew members, he recalls the DEMS gunners on board and Captain Donovan. My father was eventually picked up by HMS Nasturtium. He still remembers the pennant number K107 that was on the ships side. He is 84 now and not in the best of health. I know he would love to hear if any of his former shipmates who survived are still alive today. best regards Andy Proudfoot [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: An historic mMNposting | |
Author: A.EVANS (PADDLE STEAMERS AT CHRISTMAS) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 24/12/07 1:19am 1907 - The PADDLE STEAMER `BARRY` - 2007 Cheers to the pleasure steamer – popular and fast, With a jaunty rake of funnel and bunting from the mast, Paddles swooshing easily foaming as they churn, Leaving wake – ruler straight, trailing there astern. Her glossy shining paintwork of red and pearly white, Flying proud the ensign on halyard whipping tight, The cheering of the passengers leaning on the rail, And jingle of the telegraph when about to sail. The fascinating engines steaming hell for leather, Captain’s orders from the bridge open to the weather, Called upon in wartime years for such sterling work, Plus helping out the Navy and Army at Dunkirk. One such vessel of renown was the P.S. Barry, Famous in the Great War for troops she had to carry, Outstanding in Gallipoli and last from Suvla Bay, Serving at Salonika toiled in danger’s way. She was built upon the Clyde one hundred years ago, Excursion fit for passengers on deck and down below, Registered in Barry - in her early years, Calling in the Channel ports mooring at the piers. Ilfracombe or Weston, down to old Minehead, Burnham and the Mumbles - then home in time for bed, She gave so many people, hours of bracing pleasure, Merrymaking families enjoying days to treasure. Later on in `twenty-six she worked our southern climes, Sailing out of Brighton and Hastings many times, Then sweeping mines in `forty-one on a fatal run, She perished in the North Sea, sunk there by the Hun. It’s right recalling history of South Wales long ago, Of local crew and seamen sailing to and fro, For they worked the paddle steamers giving them their power, In our favorite waters – from Bristol to the Gower. The Paddle Steamer Barry was built for the Barry Railway Company’s fleet and sailed on May 24, 1907, before leaving the Clyde to begin her pleasure steamer career from Barry and the Bristol Channel. J.S.EARL 2007 [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| Subject: yearend | |
Author: ron stewart (daydreaming) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23/12/07 12:30am did'nt mean to offend,by sailors I meant all departments. For 9 yrs I was messboy,cabinboy,JOS,SOS,EDH,Fireman(coal)and Oiler.I was sometimes a gentleman but never made Officer.Ron S [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: swim barge | |
Author: mike (where) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17/12/07 2:42pm Good day, I have a problem,i have typed into the computer the words"swim barge",and what i get is not what i really want. its either a site for swimming pools or a site for sailing barges. The swim barge is the metal type barge,that the wharfies used along side ships to unload cargo into. I have built two radio controlled tugs and a four foot long cargo ship,to complement these i require a barge. any pictures or plans would be acceptable. best wishes for the season. mike,in maidstone [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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| Subject: Information on my deceased dad | |
Author: William Graham Bradshaw [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19/12/07 9:03am I am desperately looking for anyone who new my father. He joined the m navy in Glasgow around 1940. He died when i was young but i would love to know what ships he was on and would love to know more about the man who served his country. He didnt speak much of his time in the navy as it was very painful to him due to the loss of many friends. My mum passed away and i never learned anything about his past. My mum said he was a chef on the ships and my aunt said he was a gunner. Any information would be great. He has medals from Italy, Burma Indie and a few moe. Thanks Ellen. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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