Thread: The Great Smog
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Old 12th December 2017, 11:29
Jolly Jack England Jolly Jack is offline
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I was on the Canton at the time, just back from HK, and we had spirits stashed away in the evaporator ( it was never used) and the chief rang down and said start it up, never had a door been so quickly removed and replaced, reckon we were in the book of records.. We were anchored in the Thames for 5 days.
The 4th eng was getting married and wanted a good supply of spirits and in those days it was us versus the customs

My dad, as any seaman, hated fog. He got, as his pilotage turn just as the fog set in, one of the emigrant liners inbound to Tilbury (I forget which one) - normally just a couple of hours job. He was stuck with it at anchor off Gravesend, for three days and loved every minute!


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