Kuwait Shipping/United Arab Shipping
 

Here we go again for those of you who have found your way here from Ships Nostalgia. Interesting to see how many active people we have and how many have gone AWOL. Time to sign on again like we used to change articles in Kuwait to beat the tax man. (Don't worry he can't get you after six years have passed).

Still alive and kicking
 

Hello Albie,
well, I am still here.

Bob

Welcome aboard Bob, let's see who else comes up the gangway!

Now you have a Mate and a Leccy Albie

Running out of beer because we have no Chief Steward to look after the bond! Any takers out there?

When I was 2nd Mate in the City of St Albans [ coasting ] the Grocer had to go home for a family problem. The " Old Man " did not want either of the 2 offered by the Kremlin. He asked the Mate [ Andy88up] and my self if we could cover it to Liverpool. So there you are Ablie someone who knows the combimations to the hinges of the Beer Lkr.

Alan

Hi albie, still hanging on.

Albie, is this site the Russian or the K Class, I'm not sure.

I called it Kuwait Shipping/United Arab Shipping to cover both the old and the new so Russian or K Class take your pick.
Myself and my wife Dianne are going to Cadiz next week so I will look up the Prawn Bar, The Throw your Pipe in the Dock bar, The Two Peseta Bar and the many others that put up with all of us during our two year stint there during the conversions. We will also take the ferry over to Puerto Santa Maria for a trip down Fish Head alley for our fill of fresh fish. We also plan to go to the Horse Fair in Jerez, I have fond memories of visiting it all them years ago. They say never go back but we have been a few times and enjoyed it more each time. Maybe post a couple of pictures when we come back. Nice to see Batty Bob and Sam Todd and Saudi Sid have signed on, Sam will know the bars I have mentioned.
Albie :pint::pint:

I regard Cadiz as the most dangerous port in Spain. The Memsahib tells me it has the best shops for variety and value. When shopping the word value means expensive.
You have been warned.

Heartening to see KSC/UASC still on the hind tit of Other Companies/Ships. A grave injustice.

new comer
 

Hi Albie how come folks are moving across here

Albie,

I have just found this site, thanks to your post on Ship's Nostalgia. Thanks. Hope you are OK. I lost you for a while there.

hello Albie
 

hello Albie/ Saudi Sid/ Engine Serang and any other ex KSC/UASC houlder bros and Bank Line (sorry engine serang) who have jumped ship from SN, pity as I like SN myself

Brianthirdengineer

chief
 

hello John ( sorry chief) I think I sailed with you on the THEEKAR I did two trips a couple of years apart you were with Mary
I was the third engr who being into railways put signals on the generators!
I will check the dates on my watch keeping certificates when I get chance
Brian

Ibn Bassam
 

Hi John
dug this photo of you visiting the Bassam our chief was Phil Robinson another good guy and chief, and great old man I think was Cambell Flett

Brian,
Don't worry my deep sea gear is still on SN, like most just doing an agency job on this site to see how it goes. In the picture of John Lilburn who is the person behind the bar? Can you name the others too?

Nice to see you still around John, not hearing from you for so long I thought the worst, I will send you a PM because the emails I have sent through your web page seem to have not got to you.

The holiday in Cadiz went well, more to report when I have recuperated!

Albie

Albie/Brianthethird,
Guy in the photo behind the bar was Chief Steward, Jim Clark, him of the black satin sheets.

Mary and I were in Cadiz in December last year. We did not go to any of the bars you mentioned in your post but did have a nice time. All the Christmas lights were up.:jester:

I thought Mr Phillips was the only one with black sheets.

tredding the water
 

new to this site hopefully in time more will join and new contacts will be made, if not old contacts.

PCS now on board!
 

Decided to look at this "alternative" site but not too much here so far.

I was in UASC 1979-84.

After the success of my Palm Line site I just started a Facebook page for "United Arab/Kuwait Shipping Co. Sea Staff".

Will see how it goes, feel free to join. It is a great way to store electronically and permanently some pics and some memories before they all disappear with the passage of time. In time sites like this one and Ships Nostalgia will close down as the members get older.

Best wishes,

Howard

Thought I would just jump in the Jolly Boat and come over and see how you were all doing - may even stay (Russian Jolly Boat stopped twice on the way over - but still quicker than the K class lifeboats)

Hi Guys - I have moved over from SN - I was a Deck Cadet from 1976 to 1980 - now i am Marine Cargo Superintendent on tankers based out in Dubai - it has changed an awful lot in the last 40 years from the run ashore to the seamans mission !!
Russ Purdie

A few pictures (posted before) to get everyone thinking !!
Russ

Pete Everett is the Old Man in the 1st picture -Andy Hunt is the C/O in the jolly boat off to change some Walport movies !!

UASC/KSC Facebook Page
 

:wave:You were definitely on the Theekar.

Vince (the mince) Miller PCS, Guy at back left ??, Mark Graves J/E, Keith Houghton 4/E, John Ross C/O, John Connor Elect. (maybe)

tried to upload the photo that goes with the previous post but no luck. what am i doing wrong?

Hi Brian3rdEngineer

I found your Engineroom photos which have brought back memories - I don't think we ever sailed together, but I definitely sailed with your Generator Signals, possibly on the Ibn Qutaibah in winter 78 I'm fairly sure they were only single arm home signals though.
The piston photo reminded me of the last couple of trips I did before the great payoff :bye:
Having plenty of time on the night watch in port (8 till 8 but don't tell the second) and being asked by the 2/E to prepare for a piston change in the morning - imagine his surprise / slight consternation to find it already out, rings off and already cleaned up (I must have had a good Donkeyman as well) 2/E was Hilton Begg, couldn't decide whether to thank me or give me a b--- for going to far, but decided to thank me.

Russ-UASC

Did you do any trips as 3rd Officer after your UASC Cadetship - I did a trip with a British ex cadet from your part of the world (loved Golf) probably on the Ibn Malik 80/81, when we got to Kobe we had a slight conflict of interest (Harbor Lights) which probably, in a very convoluted way, caused me to find the love of my last 35 years.
After a wasted trip to Cardiff College for 2/E Part A and a double USA on the Al Rumaithiah
My next time back out to Japan was on the Ahmad Al Fateh in 1982.
The night-life in Kobe was dead - Harbor Lights had become an Japanese Karaoke Bar with only the Mama-san left there.
Later in the trip - Keelung, we had to shelter from a Typhoon overnight while Keelung was hit. Next day we went in to port and I went ashore, ending up at the China Bar an hour later at about 11 o'clock in the morning.
It was completely empty apart from one girl serving behind the bar - all the rest had gone home because of the typhoon. After a couple of beers we started chatting and some how it came out that she had been the Manageress of Jimmy's Record Shop in Kaoshiung that I had met 4 years previously.
After 7 days in Keelung, (should have been 24 hours but rained every day) we had agreed that on my next leave I would go out to Taiwan for a Holiday with her.
2 years later - after getting my "Thank you and goodbye" from UASC whilst on leave in Taiwan Sept 83. I flew back to Taiwan and married her.
On a previous ship the other J/E and myself received some good advice from the Captain (Terry Hunt? Lived on the Wirrel and hated people wearing denim in the Ships Bar or ashore - It's workwear only!) Never think about marrying Taiwan girls - the marriage isn't legal and they aren't allowed to leave the island.
Always being one for a challenge, I went out to prove him wrong and succeeded - just!

Where's everyone gone? :confused:

Came across some some old photo albums so thought I would share a couple from almost 40 years ago.
Both from the Ibn Asakir first half of 1978

First one starting from the right.
Me, myself JE - the really white one!
Ali (I think) the Iraqi engine room cadet - he became Spanish in Durban (Apartheid) and Paul Thistlethwait in Kaoshiung - Paul lent him his shore pass as the Taiwanese didn't like Saddam's friends, even then.
Paul Thistlethwait 3E - if you know Paul nothing need be said.
Last - I give up - anyone got any ideas?

Second One

Engine Room - changing Bottom-end Bearing? It had been running hot.

The Gentlemen is Faisil the 12-4 Donkeyman and supplier of Bandari Curry and Chapatis to the 12-4 engineers - has to be the reason why I remembered his name after all these years.
He started his seagoing career during the Second World War as stoker in BI Line (and still had the biceps to prove it) getting torpedoed and sunk twice.
In one watch (On the Asakir) he managed to kill 140 Kuwaitis with an oily rag and piled them up on the table - sorry that should have been Kuwaiti Flies.
On another occasion I thought the Generator flat was on fire, but he had forgotten that his potatoes were baking on the Generator Turbocharger and were smoking heavily!
A real character - hopefully still living out hie retirement in Karachi - he would be in his 90's now.

Merry Christmas and happy new year to ex KSC and UASC lads who I met and sailed with.

Brian

Back on-line, Christmas Greetings Brian.

So many sites on KSC/UASC I have to spread myself thinly.

Like Marmite (or for us knobs Patum pepperium)?

Patum pepperium on Mothers Pride. There's posh.

I've just Googled Mother's Pride. Sliced bread! Who on earth has heard of such a thing? Nothing goes in the toaster that hasn't been cut with the bread saw (unless dropped in by one of the cats).

At least the cats tail won't get caught in the mechanism. Maybe one got caught many years ago and started a trend.

Thanks for membership of this exclusive club
 

Hello chaps. Caught up from SN .have also posted on FB.do we do four and a half months here before a rest then go to FB-SN-back.will post some photos when i fugure out how. I am still at sea as C/E saving for retirement, it is more of a struggle these days8

I do not know how to use Facebook. My teenage child is now 39 and doesn't know either, and technology keeps moving on. Where's Sparky when I need one?