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16th January 2014, 12:08 AM
#1
Any Memories.
Did you ever get a raw deal. Remember swapping movies with another Harrison boat in the Windies, We gave them three all good quality movies names elude me, They sent us 2 Spaghetti westerns. The voices had about a 3 minute delay in translation, And a Japanese war movie bloody hell sub titles, This Jap army Sergeant gave this prvt jap soldier a speech shouting for about 10 minutes, Then it popped up on the screen {you're as thick as 2 short planks} Some of them were bloody awful.
{terry scouse}
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16th January 2014, 04:14 AM
#2
Re: Any Memories.
Hi Terry
The only time I had movies on a ship was on the RFA Wave Baron, always seemed weird to me to be sitting out on deck in the Indian Ocean watching John Wayne it was a bit surreal to say the least.
When I was on the BTC tankers they may have thought we would light up a cigarette without thinking.
I was on the Harperly but we didn't have any movies .
45 Degrees in Aus at the moment roasting everything in sight, down here in Cooma a delightful 35, don't know what it's like in the Indian Ocean.
Cheers Des
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Last edited by Des Taff Jenkins; 16th January 2014 at 04:16 AM.
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16th January 2014, 04:36 AM
#3
Re: Any Memories.
Sitting on deck in the middle of the Indian Ocean wqatching a movie with a sheet as the screen. Depending on whic side of the sheet you sat depended on how you saw the movie, great fun


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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16th January 2014, 09:30 AM
#4
Re: Any Memories.
#3 only one tanker with movies ........but always had plenty comedy and comedians aboard......remember a sos running out of the focsle on turn to in the morning with a lump of cloth round his waist as a skirt and a headsquare on ......all started to chase him but not catch ....they were like schoolboys the cook and stewards the firemen all joining in ...we nearly bust a gut laughing the old man laughed so loud he nearly had a wobbly ....some crowds could have made a movie....I think this was if you had a crew from the same town ......on my first trip all from soth shields it was like family ...some happy some grumpy some drunks some punchers but just like a family
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