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Date Posted:11:18:59 10/04/05 Tue In reply to:
Sue
's message, "December 1980" on 20:16:13 04/07/04 Wed
I remember this cruise. I was an Engineer Cadet aboard at the time it was late 1980. The storm in which we were hit by the wave was one of the worst ever recorded in the Med.
I think we bent the rudder by hitting the bottom trying to get in to Alexandria. The shooting of John Lennon was anounced by the Captain over the ships tannoy system but you obviously didn't hear.
>Anyone out there on this cruise? Our group was from
>Castlefield school, Dorchester,Dorset. All the others
>were from Darbyshire. We flew to Malta, and had very
>bad weather en route to Egypt so bad that we couldn`t
>dock.One night we were hit by a huge wave, and the
>dormitory was flooded.We made it to Israel, that bit
>went really well, then came a change in itinery due to
>the delays caused by bad weather.We went to Cyprus,
>and as we left the rudder broke so we spent a while in
>Limasol harbour while it was repaired but were unable
>to go ashore during this time. Time was running out so
>went to Athens to fly back rather that Split as was
>originally planned. Had two nice days out when docked
>in Athens, but it did rain for most of the time. We
>were supposed to have docked seven times, but only
>managed four.When we got home we found out that John
>Lennon had been shot.
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