Couldn’t leave Singapore without Maureen having her time looking around the shops. 313 Somerset Once inside we wandered around until we’d lost all sense of direction and had to ask how to get out of the place! Not a very good start for someone who used be a navigator at sea!! Once outside we had […]
Ceylon did not become Sri Lanka until 1972. The country has had a chequered history, from the Portuguese arriving in 1505, followed by the Dutch, when the king of Sri Lanka signed a treaty with the Dutch East India Company, in the hope that the Dutch would get rid of the Portuguese. It was during […]
A ‘painted’ picture of the waters around Airlie Beach. Ship’s tender boat A shuttle service from / to the ship was constant and local fast tourist boats were used in support of the ship’s tender boats. […]
In late 1968 I resigned from a life at sea and decided on a life with B.O.A.C. B.O.A.C coat of arms So life would change from water to air. BOAC VC 10 at Manchester Airport BOAC – B707 BOAC B707 freighter – my introduction to containerisation. The airline pallets (containers) can be seen loaded on […]
A ‘painted’ picture of the waters around Airlie Beach. Ship’s tender boat A shuttle service from / to the ship was constant and local fast tourist boats were used in support of the ship’s tender boats. […]
I know that we are supposed to plan for the future, and that the only sure thing is death and taxes. During our Australian road trip last year I came across a grave . . . . The ‘problem’ with this grave is that fortunately it is empty – at the moment! It appears that […]
We arrived safely in Moji, and when off duty, I was free to walk around the town. It was 1967 and the lack of English language signs was noticeable, considering that all of the other Japanese ports (about five or six) that I’d visited, had some western symbols, even if it was only a neon […]
Just a little of the background to the ‘confrontation’, which was that Indonesia objected to the creation of Malaysia, and the inclusion of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, (which was a Crown colony), and Sarawak, which was known then as British Borneo, and is now known as East Malaysia. The pink bits on the map are […]
HMT Dunera (B.1937) She is shown as a troop ship when visiting Malta, I think the photo was taken in the 1950’s. A couple of years ago Maureen and I completed a road trip around NSW, South Australia and Victoria. During the trip I planned to drive from Beechworth to Mildura; both towns are in […]
Couldn’t leave Singapore without Maureen having her time looking around the shops. 313 Somerset Once inside we wandered around until we’d lost all sense of direction and had to ask how to get out of the place! Not a very good start for someone who used be a navigator at sea!! Once outside we had […]
BOAC I joined BOAC in 1969 and in 1971 an Act of Parliament merged BOAC with BEA to take affect from 31 March 1974, which would create British Airways. The UK had joined the Common Market, as it was called then, in January 1973, so the merger of the two government-controlled airlines made sense. BOAC […]
This blog is aimed mainly at Australian readers, so I apologise to my other readers. I am tired of the multi-coloured banner across the top of my blog, even though I’ve tried to have it removed, and investigated how to remove it myself, but I don’t have the computer knowledge. It is obviously a banner […]
In late 1968 I resigned from a life at sea and decided on a life with B.O.A.C. B.O.A.C coat of arms So life would change from water to air. BOAC VC 10 at Manchester Airport BOAC – B707 BOAC B707 freighter – my introduction to containerisation. The airline pallets (containers) can be seen loaded on […]
BOAC I joined BOAC in 1969 and in 1971 an Act of Parliament merged BOAC with BEA to take affect from 31 March 1974, which would create British Airways. The UK had joined the Common Market, as it was called then, in January 1973, so the merger of the two government-controlled airlines made sense. BOAC […]
