Stuart prince

[Ian Lane]

Hi Brian,
I left in 71,got married and spent the rest of my working life in Distribution.My lasting memory of the Stuart Prince was in Kwinana,Aust. when I was called to my cabin when the Customs rummage team found a pack of UNOPENED playing cards purchased in Norrkoping,Sweden months earlier.I recall Capt Minty and his wife were not impressed and told me so in no uncertain terms.
Like yourself I enjoyed that trip more than any other,worked hard,played even harder

[Brian Beech]

Hi Brian,
I left in 71,got married and spent the rest of my working life in Distribution.My lasting memory of the Stuart Prince was in Kwinana,Aust. when I was called to my cabin when the Customs rummage team found a pack of UNOPENED playing cards purchased in Norrkoping,Sweden months earlier.I recall Capt Minty and his wife were not impressed and told me so in no uncertain terms.
Like yourself I enjoyed that trip more than any other,worked hard,played even harder

Hi Ian,
I remember that incident with the Cards. The restrictions were very tight in Australia those days. Not so much now.
I now live in Australia and it has certainly changed a lot.
I left in 1970 to work in R&D at a local valve company and migrated here in 1982. From 1986 to 2013 I worked as a consultant designing Water Treatment systems for commercial swimming pools during the Boom Time. Set me up for life.
Retired in 2013 and loving every minute of it.

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Just another memory on my 21st in Bombay. Do you keep in touch with anyone else from the Stuart Prince?

[j.sabourn]

#41 Did the playing cards have nudes on them ? the last time a few months ago I was on the train coming from Perth to Mandurah and a woman with 2 small kids got on the stop before Kwinana, both kids said to me we"re going to Banana. whenever I hear the word now I have a chuckle. JS

[Brian Beech]

#41 Did the playing cards have nudes on them ? the last time a few months ago I was on the train coming from Perth to Mandurah and a woman with 2 small kids got on the stop before Kwinana, both kids said to me we"re going to Banana. whenever I hear the word now I have a chuckle. JS

Hi JS A bit more than just Nudes if I remember rightly. Ian would confirm I'm sure.
Haha.

[j.sabourn]

The Kama Sutra ? JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

If my memory serves I was on the first ship into the new Kwinana oil refinery on the Baron Kilmarnock sometime in 54\55 we brough a cargo of crude from the Gulf, I was on her for just under twelve months, running from Kwinana around the Aussie coast.
Des

[j.sabourn]

You probably wouldn’t recognise the place now Des , I go past it in the car if going into Fremantle , even today there is quite often placard waving pickets at the gates, I don’t stop to ask what the problem is, but rather think there is talk about closing it down. Maybe climate change or something, I don’t really know , not our problem anymore , Cheers JS.

[happy daze john in oz]

Think kit is because all oil refineries here in Oz are to be closed.
All our fuel will now come in from overseas.
Maybe that is why petrol is now so expensive.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Hope it doesn't run out before I get my new Govt petrol card for $250 worth, due any day now, then I have to take the wife up to Service One for her card, had free petrol for two years.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Des, how do you get free petrol from any gov?
Is this something in NSW only?