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Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 15:34
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I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He...

I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He rather steals the thunder the early, more local, institutions that came before. South Shields, the site of much good marine 'stuff', being one - if not...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 13:10
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Posted By Varley
League? The school fees were surely wasted.

League? The school fees were surely wasted.
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 7th March 2024, 13:06
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Posted By Varley
Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that...

Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees"...
Forum: Mess Deck 5th March 2024, 13:52
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Posted By Varley
Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the...

Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the electrostimulation?
Forum: Mess Deck 26th February 2024, 11:53
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Posted By Varley
Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern...

Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern medicine - a Go layout would be very painful to remove.

(E-S. Indeed. Hardly Michelangelo, not on a good day anyway - he did say that he did not sculpt...
Forum: Stormy Weather 24th February 2024, 14:07
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Posted By Varley
If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign...

If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign group territory then vessel must be owned by persons or corporate entity 'native' to that territory and should fly red ensign. When a corporate entity is...
Forum: Mess Deck 18th February 2024, 12:11
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Posted By Varley
There's 10 days by road between the two - get an...

There's 10 days by road between the two - get an inducements adjuster to calibrate the thing whilst off-limits Cape Town. Otherwise stick to the ECDIS or we won' be going 'up the road' but 'up the...
Forum: Mess Deck 12th February 2024, 13:15
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Posted By Varley
Filling a carboy of Rochas for you now Sir. W. ...

Filling a carboy of Rochas for you now Sir. W.

Had to check for traces of bothie-bath-juice from the time those heathen plumbers tried to load on top in the port day tank.

As we haven't seen...
Forum: J & J Denholm 5th February 2024, 13:16
Replies: 8
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Posted By Varley
John, I was ashore just in time to do the...

John, I was ashore just in time to do the Electrical approval of all the HHI vessels. They were good. The NKK Alcan ships were better (barring a misunderstanding over what is, and is not a check...
Forum: J & J Denholm 4th February 2024, 15:11
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Posted By Varley
I didn't know that, John. Guess finished before I...

I didn't know that, John. Guess finished before I joined (2003 ish) although not all things 'crewing' would have been anything to do with me. I did visit one of the HHI Conbulkers in the late 90s for...
Forum: J & J Denholm 3rd February 2024, 13:26
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Posted By Varley
Denholm had Transpetrol's Reliance but not same...

Denholm had Transpetrol's Reliance but not same as subject vessel.

I think David Gas had a connection with Dorchester/BSM but 'before my time' there.
Forum: Mess Deck 1st February 2024, 19:53
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Posted By Varley
Rusty, The framed instructions came as part of my...

Rusty, The framed instructions came as part of my 21st birthday present from Brother. Along with a torch and some other marine related bric-a-brac that he thought would amuse his sailor boy sibling....
Forum: Mess Deck 31st January 2024, 15:43
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Posted By Varley
E-S I/C Plumbing? We're doomed, I tell ye,...

E-S I/C Plumbing? We're doomed, I tell ye, Doomed.

(Get dry soon Sir W. DPA has put the attached in the post but says you have to take it with you when you re-join as its vacant space on the...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 27th January 2024, 14:28
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Posted By Varley
Then what use is there for the Daily Express,...

Then what use is there for the Daily Express, E-S? Think of the dispossessed of Fleet Street before taking from them what little they have.
Forum: Mess Deck 14th January 2024, 17:13
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Posted By Varley
I don't think aircraft carrier plans include...

I don't think aircraft carrier plans include sailing without a group of warships in support. A fleet (in modern arithmetic).

(I doubt it means the MN has gained an aircraft carrier! If so we would...
Forum: Mess Deck 9th January 2024, 12:42
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Posted By Varley
Our departure lounge card only gives us half fare...

Our departure lounge card only gives us half fare on the railway (it's seen as recreational and a way of earning from visitors rather than transport).
Forum: Mess Deck 6th January 2024, 13:10
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Posted By Varley
White Shield? Pa praised it as the cheapest...

White Shield? Pa praised it as the cheapest alcohol and also for gut health (by including the bottle bottom dregs one ensured a slow moving gut became rather more athletic).

(Whisky, however, both...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 31st December 2023, 12:40
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Posted By Varley
And a festive wish to Mexico City, where my...

And a festive wish to Mexico City, where my paternal Grandparents were married and where my favourite uncle was born.
Forum: Mess Deck 29th December 2023, 13:13
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Posted By Varley
The cats wouldn't get up that early for breakfast...

The cats wouldn't get up that early for breakfast - but if anyone else did they'd be at the table in a flash.
Forum: Mess Deck 28th December 2023, 15:03
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Posted By Varley
Ross or Rosse? I knew of the astronomy but it was...

Ross or Rosse? I knew of the astronomy but it was a second son, Sir Charles who made headlines with the steam turbine and DC - also associated with Clarke Chapman. Perhaps of interest I cite Clarke...
Forum: Mess Deck 27th December 2023, 19:04
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Posted By Varley
I am a heathen not a Philistine! Turkey...

I am a heathen not a Philistine!

Turkey consigned mainly to the curry sauce but also the less appealing bits to swarm of ankle-eight cats.

This PM have taken last scrapings for their dinner...
Forum: Mess Deck 26th December 2023, 16:55
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Posted By Varley
Still testing positive. Best cooked turkey for...

Still testing positive. Best cooked turkey for one I have ever done. Been up to the ankles in cats, just, whilst consigning it to the bonus sized curry sauce (made yesterday while listening to Carols...
Forum: Mess Deck 26th December 2023, 16:49
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Posted By Varley
Not at all. It just means you have a genetic...

Not at all. It just means you have a genetic disposition to have garlic in your pasties (with the outside risk you call them oggies en croute).
Forum: Mess Deck 25th December 2023, 14:05
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Posted By Varley
Why not it will probably turn out to be. What do...

Why not it will probably turn out to be. What do you mean by pernickety? As I paid off a month short of my qualifying seatime I saw the stove-in forecastle - neatly opened up like a Fray-Bentos...
Forum: Mess Deck 24th December 2023, 13:54
Replies: 8,965
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Posted By Varley
Ditto, oh happy people. (Surprised I haven't...

Ditto, oh happy people.

(Surprised I haven't run in to any of you in the member's bar).
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