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Salty Seadog
Dec 30, 20223 min read
The Twelve Ships of Christmas
A Year in Review The Twelve Ships of Christmas January The City of Key West Banned larger Cruise ships In January 2022 The City of Key...
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Salty Seadog
Dec 22, 20221 min read
CATCH THE TUBE
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Salty Seadog
Dec 18, 20224 min read
The Love Boat meets The Golden Hinde
PACIFIC PRINCESS - THE LOVE BOAT - 1976 As the Love Boat (Pacific Princess) sailed into Acapulco Bay in April 1975, we experienced a...
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Salty Seadog
Dec 11, 20223 min read
WE MEET AGAIN
Oriana in Sydney Harbour On 3rd November 1973, I boarded Oriana for my first appointment as a Junior Assistant Purser. I was lucky, I...
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Salty Seadog
Dec 4, 20225 min read
That Sinking Feeling
Don't sail with Bryan Portwig - It could not be good for you. Some people are born lucky and then you meet Bryan Portwig whose first...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 29, 20224 min read
Shaw Savill Society Reunion
By Jamie Shedden The Shaw Savill Society was formed in 1975 after Shaw Savill sold the remaining units of our passenger fleet, with first...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 27, 20224 min read
Mexican Riviera- Revisited
Island Princess - Puerto Vallarta 1975 In 1975 Island Princess set off on her first season of Mexican Cruising under the P&O/Princess...
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Nick Messinger
Nov 20, 202212 min read
Oriana - Flagship of the Orient Line
By Commander Nicholas Messinger 'Futtocks & Buttocks' Memoir Nothing had quite prepared me for the Oriana; she was simply enormous....
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Salty Seadog
Nov 17, 20227 min read
Regent Seven Seas Versus Silversea.
Imagine the excitement of flying across the Atlantic to join our first Regent Seven Seas cruise in the Port of Los Angeles. The Mariner...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 11, 20225 min read
A POSSE 0F PURSERS
P&O Purser Cadet - Passing out in 1974 - Cheeky face of Terry Williams (Front 2nd Left) Shaw Savill Pursers taking a well-earned break....
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Nick Messinger
Nov 1, 20225 min read
Futtocks and Buttocks
ORIANA - FLAGSHIP OF THE ORIENT LINE Nick Messinger continues his story................ The Indian Ocean monsoon made itself felt, with...
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Salty Seadog
Oct 23, 20223 min read
The Chatty Girls and How to Make their Acquaintance
An Officer’s Stripes created quite a debate. A lot of old Seadogs believed that too many cruise ship personnel are now classed as...
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Salty Seadog
Oct 16, 20225 min read
An Officer's Stripes
The Purser's Stripes - Island Princess - 1977 Now that I have started to cruise as a passenger some 44 years after working onboard...
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Salty Seadog
Oct 11, 20222 min read
WHAT DOES THE TITANIC AND THE WOODEN TRAIN OF SOLLER HAVE IN COMMON
THE TITANIC SINKS AS THE TREN DE SOLLER IS INAUGURATED - April 16th 1912 If you arrive in Palma and have time on your hands, a great...
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Salty Seadog
Oct 2, 20229 min read
When the Hurricane Hits
Hurricane Wilma - Key West Florida - 2005 This week Hurricane Ian wrecked the Florida coastline. Badly affected was Fort Myers former...
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Salty Seadog
Sep 30, 20225 min read
A NEW DAWN - Silver Dawn
The sun rises on a new dawn Just over a year ago I wrote about boarding a cruise ship for the first time in over forty-five years. The...
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Nick Messinger
Sep 25, 20225 min read
ORCADES RESCUES STALIN-or MAYBE NOT
According to Nick Messinger. Orcades - Launched in 1947 I joined the P&O - Orient Liner ss Orcades, at Southampton, on the 25th March...
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Salty Seadog
Sep 8, 20224 min read
Remembering The Queen - The Yacht - The River -The Platinum Jubilee
HM Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022 Royal Yacht Britannia On a recent trip to Dartmouth, we were looking across the town towards the...
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Salty Seadog
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Not Scuppered - Yours for $5m
Teraaka - Now Known at Rose is buoyant and could be yours for the princely sum of $5m Last week I was convinced that “Teraaka” the...
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John Martin
Aug 28, 20226 min read
That Sinking Feeling
John Martin recalls when all is not well down below. MV Teraaka - Tarawa Marine Training School’s training ship based in the Gilbert and...
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