Hi John,
Glad to see you are back after drydock. Feeding on here is sh1te so I have left a jacket spud and a pork chop wrapped in tin foil on No 6 m/e exhaust just give them 35 minutes at 110 revs and there is a tin of baked beans hanging on a wire in the hotwell. Just off to catch Mary & Pete in the bar so should still be there when you come off watch (we can always blame it on "the big boys")
I will email you about the NZ trip, would do it again in a heartbeat.
Albie

The only bad feeder I sailed with was a PCS called Gibbons or Gribben from Northern Ireland, Kiwi Ponsford was Master. Another chapter in my book.

The spud is as hard as a rock and the pork chop has shrivelled up and is causing problems. The Bangladeshi Tail Wallah will not walk past No 6 unit as it is unclean so Mary may pull on her Marigolds, get a drop of Teepol and start scrubbing. No 6 is smelling like a Texas BBQ and the area is like a skating rink but we're happy because the bar has icey cold Kirin.

Rupert the Bear is 100 years old today.
Many Happy Returns Paul.

I think there's only George Weston and me left standing.

And me watching, E-S!
Rgds.
Dave

Me too, lurking in the bilges hiding from Covid, mind you I'm sure the bilges on the small Russians could have bred crocodiles and other nefarious beasts.

Keep safe
Albie

Albie

The LURGI is spreading. They say about 100 in Rotherham General. Still OK here
Alan

Dublin now in Level 5, the top level, trying to get the numbers down. Some experts believe numbers have plateaued and we hope so.
Every evening we have the Chief Medical Officer explaining the situation with coloured graphs and I will admit to being puddled. Too much Tennants in my youth, I think.

Kintyre has reasonably low rates but with the number of campervans that appeared over the last few weeks, trying to escape the Lurgy, I fear it is only a matter of time now. Hope the Guinness plant has good Covid measures in place, what a disaster if they had to close.

A glass or two of Guinness is guaranteed to build up a heard immunity to all foreign diseases.

As an aside "Mull of Kintyre" was released as a double A-sided single on 11 November 1977, so you can have a wee hooley this evening.

A Long time Ago
 

I was a lecky with ksc/uasc from about 74 to 79
I think that's Gordon Anderson. 3rd Eng - a good shipmate - from Geordieland

Greetings Tony and welcome to SH. Bon voyage.

Just joined this site after hearing about it on SN. Here's my KSC & UASC history again and will post photos if anyone interested. Im sure I sailed with Brian Springhall as remembered his train signals on on the generators and his junior, Tim, from Barrow ,who would go ashore, get plastered and turn in 20mins before his watch!
Joined KSC/UASC as a Eng Cadet & finished up as 3rd Eng when i was finished in 86
Al Ahmadiah 07/78 - 01/79
Ibn Qutaibah 03/79 - 08/79
Al Kadisiah 07/80 - 01/81
Ibn Zuhr 04/81 -08/81
Al Khalidiah 10/81 - 12/81
Jilfar 12/81 - 03/82
Ibn Rushd 04/82 - 07/82
Tabuk 11/82 - 03/83
Jilfar 07/83 -01/84
Ibn Hazm 03/84 - 08/84
Al Ahmadiah 01/85 - 05/85
Ibn Al Roomi 08/85 - 11/85
Al Shamiah 11/85 - 12/85(Laid up Jebel Ali)
Khalid Ibn Al Waleed 03/86 - 08/86(laid up Antwerp)
Photo is of first day of first trip on Al Ahmadiah in Kuwait in July 1978. An experience getting off the plane!L to R Paul Fewtrell,
Chris Dove, Me and Hussain Ali. All cadets.

Uasc memories
 

[QUOTE=Engine Serang;34221]I think there's only George Weston and me left sta

nding.[/QUOTE

There are still a few more around including me - still to the fore at 88 and hopefully plenty of active life remaining. Engine Serang - I know you well from the voyage (or non voyage) on Al Aridhiah 1980. Remember me?

Jim Hamilton

Uasc memories
 

[QUOTE=Engine Serang;34221]I think there's only George Weston and me left sta

nding.[/QUOTE

There are still a few more around including me - still to the fore at 88 and hopefully plenty of active life remaining. Engine Serang - I know you well from the voyage (or non voyage) on Al Aridhiah 1980. Remember me?
I remember so vividly the lifeboat swinging around on the end of the crane fall like some gigantic pendulum as the ship rolled about while anchored in a Northern Gulf swell. Just about the biggest fright of my life!
We were the horseracing ship!
Happy Days.

Jim Hamilton

After 130 hours OT and 45 tons of Lube & Hydraulic Oil (changing it not :pint:) - and also the first month of not paying Nat Ins contributions - I finally decided to go and buy a slide scanner - first effort is on the Gallery - Ibn Abdoun Indian Ocean

Good photograph.

I must say that the Ibn Abdoun never stopped at sea when I was 3/E or indeed C/E on her. The outfit has gone to the dogs.

Lao, if it takes 130 hours of overtime your scanner must be the size of the Wembley pitch. Keep scanning, cheers.

A very good scan, congratulations Lao Pan. Worth the cost and effort.
Rgds.
Dave

We had been slow steaming from the Gulf out to Japan and were still way ahead of schedule, so stopped for the afternoon. Can't remember why the Old Man wanted to launch the Lifeboat - think it was the second mate, myself and a couple of the crew who went for a trip around the ship.

I've just posted 3 more of the Ibn Abdoun in the Gallery - 2 in Kuwait Dry Dock.

As J/E, I was on days in the Engine Room, Overhauling Valves on the Sea Chest. 10 minutes to 5 the 2/E says "Finish those in the Morning, see you in the bar in half an hour." (One of the better 2/E's :) ) "15 mins and I'll have them all boxed up" I say and finish the job.
About 6am I wake up with a strange movement of the ship, look out the port and find that the ship has re-floated in the night :shock: (was a problem with the drydock and they had to flood it to stop it capsizing) - luckily I had stayed to finish the valves, otherwise there would have been a bit of a liquidity problem in the ER!

In the other picture - rough seas, viewed out of the Engineers Office going back to the Gulf from the Far East, there is a big clue as to why it was to be my last trip - No Deck Cargo, even the Tween Decks weren't full - lots of Cargo had been cancelled at the last minute, while we were in Japan loading.

Al Salehiah 1979
 

Here are a few pictures from the Al Salehiah (my only Small Russian) Got a bit of a surprise when I found the first one, if I remember - the R/O's and 2/Elec's wives hijacked me :rolleyes: (R/O's wife on my left)
Second one is the R/O - is he angry? with the 3/E in the background - can't remember his name, even though I sailed with him twice, I think he came from Chapel le Street and always was coming up with schemes to make money. First trip it was going to Scapa Flow to scrap all the submarine nets from the second world war. Second trip he was going to become the Bernard Mathews of Giant Flemish Rabbits :eat_arrow:
Third Picture general view of the Bar.
Last one - Suez Canal Egyptian Army launching Pontoon Sections - and the truck.

The R/O is Mickey Pearce from Only Fools and Horses.

I would love to compare the Bar Tariff with todays prices although it would probably depress me for a week. Should of drank more when the going was good, another missed opportunity.

Pete Everett
 

Hello, our father Alan McNally (a cook with New Zealand Shipping Co 1956 - 1962 Papanui,Rangitiki, Hurunui, Maori) was good friends with a Pete Everett - would this be the same Pete Everett? We would love to try and make contact with him if he's still alive, if anyone has any information about him?

Greetings CMc you are welcomed to SH. Bon voyage.

If this is the same Peter Everett he passed away a few years ago. Alan