06/16/2014 - 09:57 |
I sailed on the Asprella in 69, watched the Moon shot on TV at Swansea...I believe...we couldn't watch the landing as we were well out of TV range by that time. I remember the Saloon steward smuggling a 'lady' on board. She was soon discovered and put ashore in Ireland. The ship carried chemicals at that time. All the crew had to give blood sample and a whole armful on completion of a six month trip. We sailed between Curacao, Liverpool/Stanlow, Swansea. think we went to Rotterdam once as well I paid off in Liverpool when the ship was dry docked for repairs/refit |
05/22/2009 - 21:13 |
Hi Derek, I to sailed on the Asprella and afterwards the Megara in 1969-70. I sailed on the Asprella on the west india to Liverpool/Stanlow...Swansea run carrying chemicals. My next ship was Megara ( 7 months)..apart from the usual run between the Gulf and Europort we also went to singapore and Japan, some of the crew paid off in Sweden but I stayed on for one more trip. If you remember the Old Man changing at Cowes I of White we were on the ship at the same time ...All the best Brian Perry |
04/13/2009 - 18:25 |
Hi to everybody who has since realized we all had a great time, the ships are long gone and in some cases alas some of the men I sailed with, they live only in our memories now. Thats what this site is all about isn't it, a shared lifestyle, in my case 40 years ago.
Anybody out there remember or know where Allan Edwards is now, I sailed with him on the Asprella and Megara in 69-70.
Last known address in Bexhill-on-Sea |
01/13/2009 - 18:52 |
Having read some of the comments of late it would appear that a good few of us made a huge mistake...me included...when we returned to life as landlubbers!!..............isn't hindsight wonderful.
I must confess that I feel a little sad when I see the ships that I sailed on are no more...I look at some of the photographs and recall walking on the main deck or a watch on the bridge..forty years ago....the reminicences from my youth???? |
12/19/2008 - 17:17 |
To all the man that I sailed with in the sixties, early seventies may I say 'Have a peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year' ......we can't turn the clock back but we have some wonderful memories
Brian Perry |
11/02/2008 - 20:40 |
If Ray Laws was a fellow Zeppelin fan I've found a fellow shipmate from 1969 on 'Big Meg'.
I well remember the five day wait for the weather at rotterdam...I stayed at that same hotel a couple of times..
Spent all my money in local bars...nothing new there then!!
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03/15/2008 - 18:23 |
Great to find this website and see the ships I served on in the late sixties early seventies some great times with new friends, some I sailed with on two or three occations on the Vitrina, Asprella,Megara, mitre ,melo and the Marticia my last ship before I went landside.
I always look back at my time on the Megara with great affection.I sailed on this ship for nine months with a geat crew ...I didn,t want to get off...does anybody remember the Isle of White enforced over night stay, sleeping in a bus shelter,moved on by the police and kipping in a hotel saloon,
returning to the ship early the next morning to receive a 'bollocking' off the old man....Ah! what it was to be young
Brian Perry Shell Tankers 1968 to 1972 |