Ahoy there! Richard is my name on this forum.
My main hope is that there will be a wider spectrum of subjects, and less what I perceive as snobbery that another site has. Where SOME people think that their department or rank is all important.
I was mainly a GP seaman with BP, though worked on passenger ships for the first three years of my seagoing career. After swallowing the anchor and joining the civil service, I returned to working on the water in 1998, on cross Solent ferries. Now retired and living on the IOW.
I have no truck with snobbery, I like everyone else, worked on ships, and that's the important thing for me, not who did what.
Rank is important at sea, but not on forums methinks.
