Sounds like a search pattern to me.
Perhaps we are looking for something… ?

We're supposed to be in Samoa recovering the HMNZS Manawanui ... but, actually, nobody agreed to come and help. We'll leave it to the Navy I think. If you guys all turned up with your years of experience you might show them up a bit. Left hand down a bit Mr. Phillips. Anyone remember The Navy Lark? I have them all here as MP3's if you want them. I'll have to borrow the plank that you make people walk on as I have a board meeting to attend.

Has anyone got any lead boots that they can lend to varley, he is looking for cod on the seabed but he keeps floating to the surface

Suffice for youse scurvy matelots to know I (me) is in charge of this fine lady. Just carry on and do your job or I'll be dug outa ya. Everyone sloped shoulders when BB needed a short break, I stood up and was counted in fairness so did His Lordship but he was counted twice , eat more salad.
I want to be Chief and I will be, BB is returning next week when we tie up in Mindanao and many thirsts will be quenched. Tmax may return.

I'm glad someone is in charge. Don't take any resistance from Varley. Tell 'im to go ohm.
I don't even know where Mindanao is so better get into the chartroom and look it up. It sounds like venereal disease and I hope it isn't. Three cheers for the return of the sick crew members and bottoms up, if that's safe to say on board.

we had a fine crew aboard at one time. Unfortunately several have crossed the bar. John Briggs, Dom, Jim barnes to mention a few.
keep advertising for new crew members lads we need all the help we can get on this thread.

skipper, first and second mate. cook, bosun, carpenter. Bunting tosser (in case we sail into a naval port) we have cardboard cut out deck technicians. and plastic stewards. also would like to have a purser (for the subs).
All the above crew wanted urgent to save us from going into semi permanent lay up.

Lord V is ambidexter, he can cook and talk at the same time. He does a mean curry, Simla Curry.

Is that the curry with sultanas in it?
No, it's simla to yesterdays.

I can recommend the food in the BHP Mess at the Port Hedland Detention Centre.:thumb:
Endless variety and quantity.:applause:
Even small frogs in the bathroom.:jester:

I see ''Tugfan'' reading. We could use a towmaster aboard for some towing jobs we might get. we are famous for our 300 ton BP. the cut outs know how to rig a Bridle so he wouldnt need to get his hands dirty. (we did some interesting tow jobs in the past with this vessel)

Mr varley get on the blower and see what the agent has for us will you. case of old tawney and a box of cigars for you on this one David.

had no VIP charters for a while either. come to that we have not blown anything up ashore for a while.

When I've finished my little blow-out I'll nip round to the Baltic before heading to LCY and home. If any of brokers are up for sharing our cargo spaces - providing whatever it is has a good rate and won't contaminate the Tawny tanks - I'll get back to the agents ASAP.

The underwriters are asking for a declaration that we will not engage in the triangular trade. I have enquired for alternative cover but so far the deductible asked is astronomic.

(Here until Tuesday - funds permitting).

nice one Mr Varley, enjoy your travels good sir. We all look forward to your safe return.

BB me oul china many of our shipmates have hit the deck, popped their clogs or succumbed to diseases of the liver and we remember them with affection. More so as we approach the month of November.

However like myself they were Company Contract men, happy days, but we are a diminishing resource and new blood are from the Pool and due allowance must be made. We no longer need to open the extra nozzles and go hither and tither at Full Ahead, let us cut or cloth according to our measure and accept a couple of posts every week or so rather than sacksful every day.

Let us sit back in graceful retirement and await His Lordships missive from an deatach mor.

I'm still enjoying reading some of the earlier posts. It should really be edited into a book and published. I only read between deck swabbing sessions though and they are becoming quite dangerous. I poked a passing cut-out in the groin with the mop handle and all his mates came after me, including the plasticos. My foot got caught in the bucket as I ran away so they heard me wherever I was. I got herded into the forward lounge and had to buy them all drinks to save my skin. I might stick to polishing the propellors and stay out of the way.

Tweedledee, or is is Tweedledum?
With your interest in matters historic, you may care to note the this is actually the THIRD incarnation of the Golden Dreamer, although, to be more accurate, number 2 was just a refit of number 1. Hence this is number 2.
The previous two are on a ‘Dontgothere’ site with a similar name. I still stand a fire watch over there.
I might get into trouble with Neville but here you go:
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/threa...93#post-173593

Just tweediekiwi. From Berwick-upon-Tweed. Live in NZ. No tweedling involved.
Thanks for the link to the other site. All the same crew I guess? Who's Neville/
Cheers,
Doug.

Neville is our fearless (and to be feared) Moderator.:shock:
He even scares Malcolm G.:rolleyes:

He may even ban me for the above but at least it would save me from having to dream up idiotic, yet unfunny, things to say.

Yes, Playing with a chap’s screen name was unfunny, sorry. Consider wrist slapped.
I’ll just leave that sort of thing to others… A couple of whom come to mind…:jump:

I visited the "Dontgothere,youbollix" site over the weekend and was made to feel most welcome, indeed at one stage I felt like the Prodigal Son.
Being a bit of a dunderhead I never fully understood the reason(s) for the split but I believed it had something to do with some chap buying the website and buggering up members photo galleries.
One wonders if time is as great healer as we were led to believe? It was a messy and acrimonious divorce and old wounds are steadily healing, someone ought to make an effort,,,,,,,,

Yes ES, I see you made a visit. Didn’t say much though.:confused:
The Gallery, or Media as they call it, is now intact(ish) but not nearly as user friendly as it is hereabouts.

Both pretty much what ES and Malcolm G say reflects my experience.

To me, the SN Gallery debacle was a great disappointment as, for a time, my 1,300 odd photos there simply disappeared (along with a squillion pics posted by many others).

Unfortunately, we were all treated with contempt by the new owners of the site at the time. Sadly, they believed that 'one size fits all' (or 'nobody')!

Both sites have their advantages but I find the SH Gallery easier to navigate and more user friendly. I now have almost 1,800 photos here, some of which I have transferred from SN, but the larger SH format is a great advantage to a grumpy old b.... like me.

Geoff (YM)

Yes ES, I see you made a visit. Didn’t say much though.

It never entered my mind to spew nonsense at the first opportunity. I'll take it easy for a while and then with a new name, ED Yellabinna, I'll read the riot act and have them apologise to all my Kodachrome buddies.

just been to have a look at SN again. not much changed. Still prefer this site though.

I say lets all head to the UK thanks to the labour party i can now save £1 if i drink 100 pints, lets try it out.

knowing some of the ''gentlemen'' in my crew that should not be a problem.....Cheers...Hic!!

Good God don't tell me John Prescot and Kevin McNamara got in?

J prescot still lives in Hull i reckon he would make a good pacemaker in our drink 100 pints challenge, if we drink in London at £7 a pint we only have to drink 700 pints to get one free, wow.

I'm reporting back aboard, whether rested or recuperified is another matter.

Amongst the pleasures of my run shore is usually a pint or two at Chequers off Jermyn Street.

I do not like to grumble but the only bitter, London Pride, was 'off' and when I tried half a pint of some indescript IPA it was served in something reminiscent of a small child's toothmug when I tried the remaining pump my best coaxing managed to get a half of something pretending to be porter in a stemmed lager glass - both would have undrinkable had they not been alcoholic. I wonder not what is to become of the big smoke but wonder at what it has become.

Had dinner at V. Posh hotel - private dining room. Found fellow guest was 93 year old ex Shaw Savill steward. Have offered to sign him on here if his carer can be encouraged to do computer for him. (Suspect it is the only time two sailor boys had crossed that threshold when unencumbered with the luggage of others). But even here cold Fino was not all that cold and tasted rather overly long opened and another guest had her chicken bloodily underdone.

Nothing was up to it's usual scratch. I even had to run a guerrilla group at my club to provide some fellow members with refreshment, cognac and toothmugs (in extremis) as the bar now closes at 2230. I would fear blackballing but one of said ladies was an ex-director of the establishment.

And if you think I am moaning you should have heard the ladies glooming over their failing-to-shop expeditions and, in the case of Sister-in-Law, the failure of tube trains to train when they should.

And I caught a cold (of the viral kind not stock exchange kind - now the UK's lady chancellor has given me one of those too). If anyone calls me to change a light bulb in the next month just take a guess at where the old one is going to get shoved.

OK so, I'll change my own fluorescent tube.

The very thought of you not doing so ES gave me slight twinge - not pleasant.

Testing 1,2; 1,2.

Billyboy having log- in problems.
Andy, Admin asked to help..

Well that works :wink:

When I posted a quick reply it did not show up. I refreshed the page at approx. 7am , no success but lo and behold it appears at 8.17. A temporary glitch?

grateful thanks to our technicians. I am back on site again.
I'll just nip and have a look around the ship to see whats happening.

Hmmm everything seems to be in order. Ecdis says we ar4e making 23 knots towards the gulf of Mexico. ETA in three days.
Nothing exciting on the Radars. Iron Mike holding her steady on course for Haiti. Dont think we have been there before.

Haiti ? Don’t they have regular ‘problems’ natural and man made?
Many years since my major incident and medical trauma training, I suppose it will all came back to me, probably just a bit out of date.

Is it worth asking if we`ve got the speed to get through the Dominican Republic to get to Haiti ?
I mean, I know the sharp end is pointy, but wouldn`t it be wiser to follow an icebreaker ? (Not a double rum & coke.)

A land beset by problems none of which will be lightened by our arrival. We must, as diplomatically as possible, make our excuses and hightail it out of the Caribbean.
Brazil?