Banana Boats
Sailed on four of Fyffes in the 1950s, Ariguani, Bayano, Cavina, and the Corrales.Jamaica seven times and West Africa once.
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What Ports and voyages John? Please tell.
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Port Royal, Kingston, Port Antonio, and Tico West Africa
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I managed to give them the slip .... (arf arf ... get it ? ... the slip !! ... :jester: I really should get paid for this sh1t !!)
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You two would make good second banana men.
Definition of second banana :a comedian who plays a supporting role to a top banana; broadly :a person in a subservient position |
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I think that means John has given us the 'virtual' groanometer ... :jester:
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All in jest Bob.
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S'allright, I don't mind being the Bud Abbot .. :big_tongue:
(I was going to use Laurel and Hardy, but the fact is, neither of those was a banana man. They were both comic geniuses. ) |
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Don't worry, John; I've always said "If you can't take it yourself, don't hand it out" So whatever you say, I'm fair game. :balloon: |
Crews of the Banana Boats named their ships Skin Boats, however the dockers at Avonmouth had their name for them, they called them Plumb Boats because they made a lot of money unloading them. I bet you knew that anyway.
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Was that Donaldson Line ships.?
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I think Royal Mail also did much the same run. At up to 120,000 cases per trip, 3 times a year, we transported, and exported a lot of hangovers over the years. :egg: |
Many broken cases found in the holds I bet.
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...... fortunately all the broken cases were found to be empty. :jester:
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The cardboard cases of mickeys were another thing though - box cutters made a nice slash along one side of the top, the case was turned 90 degrees, another slash, no - the case was best stowed in it's original place with another quick slash making a lovely three sided lid which could be accessed from time to time until hidden in the stow. |
I guess containers put a stop to the free whisky.
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Put a stop to a lot of the things that were enjoyable about going to sea ... :rolleyes:
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I remember spending much time watching whiskey being loaded and tallying it into the area in the hold. A few hours down there, you walked out semi-pissed from the vapours from the broken cargo. Shockingly fragile, some of those bottles were. Hardly had to look at them.
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In Middlesbrough watching a Clan vessel taking lots of cased whisky to South Africa.....a number of cases just happened to meet the hatch combings ......the dockers were 'dressed' with car tyres secured with twine under their coats...so broken bottles were tipped straight in....
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When we started to break stow in L.A. after the cars were removed, I undid the padlock, opened the door, and lo, and behold there were two cases missing. If one was really skinny, and could squeeze through a small opening in the dunnage boards, accessed through the refrigeration hatch, and then in the very small gap between the top of the stow and the deckhead it was still not possible to reach the missing cases. Not only that why bother crawling all the way to the door, when it would have been a lot easier to pilfer from the cargo at the side of the compartment. As I said, beats me! |
Tofua,Matua, NZ banana and passenger boats, bananas loaded in cardboard boxes.Anybody remember these.
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Tilapa was my first trip Sparkie 'in charge' (ie by myself!). 1972.
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Some brands of Scotch whisky are still very hard to find in the UK. Now I know where they all disappeared!
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sailed on 3 Ts ,2 Cs, 5Ms,2 Rs some a couple of times in 11 years before going to Salen,and C.P..Great days..EDDIE
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