[Richard]

Originally Posted by sibby

I well remember a time when I was on the Bamenda Palm, when an argument broke out between to captains. I was on the wheel when a Palm Line ship was approaching us, our captain told the other A.B. on watch to standby to dip the ensign as soon as they dipped to us, he said he was the senior captain, the other ship did not dip to us so our skipper got on the radio and asked why they had not dipped, the other skipper said he was senior captain, after arguing for some time it seemed one or the other was senior by one month. The third mate and I had a good laugh after our skipper stormed out of the wheelhouse in disgust.

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