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Dad's Documents.
Some of Dad's documents from his career at sea.
More to follow.
He went to sea as an apprentice with the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Company in 1938.
He got his discharge from the "Pool" in January 1946, a week after my brother was born. Dad had hoped to continue sailing with Eagle Oil after having surgery at a hospital in New York, but having endured some runs from London to Poland with various cargoes in the Watts Watts vessel "Fort Spokane" he had had enough.
His discharge book was completed many years after the War, in 1970. He left it at home after being sunk for the second time when Empire Norseman was torpedoed the day after his 21st birthday, as he didn't want to tempt Fate!
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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