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Pieter Koops @ CERONIA, Tue, 04/06/2021 - 22:53

Captain P A Koops wzs Master 1940-1

jbiggs2 @ NAVICELLA, Tue, 03/30/2021 - 21:41

Hello. I'm looking to find any information on my great uncle Christopher T Underwood who was a radio officer on the tanker Navicella. He unfortunately died why sailing between Willemstad (Curaçao) and Durban (South Africa) during 1959. If anyone has any information they could share with me I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Joe

Rich @ HALIA (1), Wed, 03/10/2021 - 11:40

Flew out to Singapore and joined the Halia as a Junior Ordinary seaman on the 16th September 1968 to 12th March 1969 in Singapore did Vietnam run going to Qui Nhon & Cam Ranh Bay + Saigon where we were hit by a missile which made a right mess of one of the crew's cabin and I believe his prized National Panasonic Radio. Also did Da Nang amongst other places. Rest of the trip was spent going back and forth from Singapore to various far east places such as Hong Kong - Solomon Islands - Bombay Madras Calcutta - Persian gulf. Then flew home with KLM - great trip. Double money in Vietnam waters also helped.

Robert Ian Fletcher @ HELISOMA, Mon, 02/22/2021 - 16:23

I served as Eng App and junior engineer on Hellisoma from July 1966 to July 1967. If my memory serves me well it was a great ship and I enjoyed my time on her. The old man for a time was Willy Cairns who was by all account a bit of a bastard but when I did my bridge time I got on fine with him. I think Keith Fenwick was first mate during that time.

Robert Ian Fletcher @ HANETIA, Mon, 02/22/2021 - 16:07

I sailed on Hanetia in 1969 as Junior Engineer, we had a major engine room incident sailing from Singapore to India when we lost all Lube oil to main turbines due to a blackout,. Is there any one on this site that can remember this.

Nicholas David Edney @ ACHATINA (2), Sun, 02/14/2021 - 17:36

Peter Wilson..remember me Sir...the person you so graciously looked after..Antwerp to Klaipeda..had the deck boys cabin..
Get in touch my good friend..voyager1.7791@gmail.com

Nicholas David Edney @ ACHATINA (2), Sun, 02/14/2021 - 17:36

Peter Wilson..remember me Sir...the person you so graciously looked after..Antwerp to Klaipeda..had the deck boys cabin..
Get in touch my good friend..voyager1.7791@gmail.com

Nicholas David Edney @ ACHATINA (2), Sun, 02/14/2021 - 17:36

Peter Wilson..remember me Sir...the person you so graciously looked after..Antwerp to Klaipeda..had the deck boys cabin..
Get in touch my good friend..voyager1.7791@gmail.com

Linda @ NASSARIUS, Fri, 02/05/2021 - 18:14

M.V.Nassarius March1947to September 1949 my father Ernest Kell dob 1925 served.

Neil Doyle @ SAN ROBERTO, Sun, 01/17/2021 - 01:17

1941
Capt. C W Allison
℅ G Clark
2/O T Bowkerwell/T O Davies
3/O T Smith

Apprentices:
J Deane, DA Doyle, FC Murphy, WF Hunt, JM Huke, WPC Mummery, A Gammon, White

saw615 @ DORCASIA (1), Thu, 01/07/2021 - 15:27

My father, Leo Walmsley, wrote a book called 'Invisible Cargo' (published 1952) about a journey he undertook to write an account of oil drilling, transport, and refining in the years immediately after WW2. He sailed as a guest of Anglo-Saxon on the Dorcasia (1) under Capt Byron Jones from Falmouth to Curacao. And wrote extensively about oil drilling in Venezuela, and refining in Curacao, and while the book is thoroughly out of date regarding current knowledge of oil extraction and refining, it provides a fascinating portrait of the oil workers and management, as well as technical information he gathered on the journey. He came back to England on the Theobaldus (skippered by Captain Murray).
Cheers
Sean Walmsley

John Brown @ NATICINA (1), Mon, 11/30/2020 - 15:44

Not a comment by me - inserted in error by someone else.