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LIFE AT SEA, and everywhere else !
Adventures from around the world
captrva
Sep 26, 2020
The big adventure...
It was a big adventure as a kid - looks like I copped a 'shiner'? The three brass buttons on our cuffs were called 'snotties' - to stop...
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captrva
Sep 22, 2020
Passenger ships, here I come !
"When the Ship Hits the Fan" Didn't take me too long to figure out that a uniform was a valuable piece of equipment - even with no gold...
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captrva
Sep 21, 2020
SS ARAMAC
My first mingling with passengers Aramac was a passenger/cargo ship and very popular. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! It was a...
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captrva
Sep 20, 2020
Start and Finish
"When the Ship hits the Fan" My first two ships...and my last two ships! Quite a contrast!
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captrva
Sep 19, 2020
Took my motorcycle on the ship with me.
Honda 750/4 - great bike and we could buy them cheaply in Ueno, Tokyo. Went around every country on Victorian number plates! Thats it on...
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captrva
Sep 18, 2020
WAHINE
Page 61: "When the Ship hits the Fan" Wahine Salvage Wahine was a nice looking ship for its day - quite a tragedy with 50 people lost. I...
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captrva
Sep 17, 2020
Page 53: "When the Ship Hits the Fan"
First 'proper' job: un-certificated 4th Mate- about as low down the totem pole as you can get!
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captrva
Sep 12, 2020
ss "Arafura" swimming pool !
My first ship, and the swimming pool that was made up on sea passages!
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Captain Rob Anderson
Sep 11, 2020
Page 45 of "When the Ship Hits the Fan"
A longtime seafriend Alan just sent me this picture showing the horses penned up on the deck of our general cargo ship heading for the...
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Captain Rob Anderson
Sep 4, 2020
Page 179: "When the Ship hits the Fan"
There it is ! The amazing alcohol-free Gyspy caravan with Major in the background! Never, ever again!!!!!
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captrva
Sep 2, 2020
Cathay and Chitral - my own private yachts!
Got off the cargo ships and hoped across to Cathay and Chitral - cargo/passenger ships on the Far East run - great times !! Cathay and...
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captrva
Sep 1, 2020
G4M 'Betty Bomber" Rabaul
Rabaul was a regular port and we used to go into the jungle to look at the old wartime wrecks. This one is a Misubishi G4M 'Betty'...
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captrva
Aug 30, 2020
Paddle Boat
In between jobs, and struggling for a dollar, I drove the paddle steamer Pyap for a few weeks. I didn’t have the right license (which is...
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captrva
Aug 29, 2020
Page 80: Hatch Brothers Emporium
Thats how cargo was stowed and carried before containers came along. Piece by piece, one at a time - sometimes the crates or cartons...
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captrva
Aug 28, 2020
The Patch
"When the Ship hits the Fan" A normal day in the Bass Strait "Patch", and a normal day on the NW Shelf out of Broome. Shorts and no shirt...
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captrva
Aug 26, 2020
Page 97: "When the Ship hits the Fan"
The mighty Bongo, legally seats 2, but easily capable of carrying 12 drunken sailor-men to the 'Welshpool Hilton" - which must have made...
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captrva
Aug 25, 2020
This is where it all started.........?
Bass Strait Oilfield. I 'found' this when I was Harbour Master for Gippsland Ports. In 1924, the Lake Bunga No1 well, located five...
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captrva
Aug 21, 2020
Offshore gear
Page 83 of my book "When the Ship hits the Fan" - You work with pretty heavy gear Offshore !
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