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Revenge of the Cadets

January 22, 2023

While at anchor in the Shatt-Al Arab fellow cadet Dougie and I fell out with the Chinese second steward who …

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The Man Who Had Everything

January 19, 2023

There was another British ship at anchor not far upstream from the Stolt Sheaf when she was stuck in the …

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The Gulf

January 11, 2023

Having finally made it to the Stolt Sheaf after three days of travel, including being stranded in Kuwait for twenty-four …

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The Journey

December 21, 2022

When I found out that I was to fly to Iran to join the Stolt Sheaf on 3 May 1975 …

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The Letter

November 25, 2022

Having completed the first college phase of my training in March 1975 I was informed by my shipping company that …

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Learning to Drive

November 11, 2022

Some folks might think that cadets studying at Marine College were learning to drive ships. I suppose we were, but …

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Nothing Wasted

November 7, 2022

Deck cadet training in the British Merchant Navy in the 1970s involved alternating phases of sea and college time. Training …

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The Channels

October 22, 2022

A seafarer who experiences unusual levels of excitement after finding out that he or she is to be relieved at …

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Reunion

May 23, 2022

For the last year and a bit I have been typing up the journals I kept during my first two …

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Rust

May 18, 2022

Rust happens. Especially at sea. When I joined the Sheaf Royal, she was only a year old and there was …

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Why, Mr Putin, Why?

March 11, 2022

My first visit to Russia (then the USSR) took place during February and March 1974 when I was a first …

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Ticking Boxes

February 22, 2022

After just ten hours in Port Cartier in June 1974 loading iron ore (my second ten hours in Port Cartier …

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Mundane

February 12, 2022

My second trip to sea did not seem to involve ports of an exotic nature. During my first trip there …

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Waiting

January 13, 2022

I apologise for the lack of recent blog activity, which is down to illness and Christmas. The previous post described …

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The Tale of the Broken Nose

November 19, 2021

If you are following this blog you will know that I have been taking a journey down memory lane revisiting …

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Turku

November 17, 2021

There is a six-hour pilotage through an archipelago of many islands of varying sizes to reach the Finnish port of …

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Trust

November 15, 2021

Leaving Canada in her wake the Irish Wasa plodded slowly across the North Atlantic, averaging roughly 11.5 knots, and burning …

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When you frame it like that… what are you missing?

November 12, 2021

This post, which interrupts the flow of my reminiscences from life at sea in the 1970s, is a response to …

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My Will be Done

November 3, 2021

After just ten hours in Port Cartier the Irish Wasa was back at sea, loaded with 16,000 tons of Canadian …

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What’s the Point?

October 23, 2021

On my first visit to Port Cartier in Canada in May 1974 it took roughly five hours to load the …

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Missing

October 6, 2021

I realise that I have been missing for a month or so in respect of blog posts, which for a …

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Unconventional

September 1, 2021

I introduced Martin, the other deck cadet on the Irish Wasa, in my previous post. I had never met anyone …

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The Dizzy Heights

August 17, 2021

My first period of leave passed quickly. Having arrived home on 22 March 1974, it took my employers exactly one …

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Never Lose the Wonder

August 10, 2021

When George Cuthbert and I joined the mv Sheaf Royal as first trip cadets in October 1973 we had no …

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Wanting to Know More

July 9, 2021

I recall being somewhat excited at the news that the Sheaf Royal was to load a cargo of grain in …

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Blind

July 1, 2021

After the incident with the two bosun birds (see previous post) the Sheaf Royal seemed to encounter more inclement weather …

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Mid-Pacific

June 27, 2021

The Sheaf Royal sailed from Beaumont, Texas on Monday 21 January 1974 bound for Nakhodka in the Soviet Far East …

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Be a Mule

June 15, 2021

Ships and wind-ups go together. Deck cadets are warned about some of it during their two-week induction course. To be …

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The Mystery of the Disappearing Engineers

May 31, 2021

The Sheaf Royal berthed in Mobile, Alabama on Saturday 12 January 1974. Workload meant that fellow cadet George and I …

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Fire

May 28, 2021

At 06:00 on 4 January 1974 the Sheaf Royal was finally alongside in Puerto Ordaz after a 200-mile pilotage up …

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Orinoco Flow

May 26, 2021

The Sheaf Royal sailed from Rotterdam on 22 December 1973. I had never spent Christmas away from home before and …

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