Ramblings of a Salty Seadog

by Nick Messinger RMS Strathmore - Launched 1935 by the Duchess of York The telephone in the hall rang; it was P&O Head Office, Fleet...

Oriana becomes a one-class cruise ship in 1973 As I joined P&O in 1973 world passenger shipping was changing dramatically. In 1958 the...

A JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY By John Martin The greatest journey you can ever undertake is the journey of self-discovery. In 1983 a group...

HMS Warrior - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard On what turned out to be the hottest day ever recorded in the UK we visited the Historic Naval...

Michael Frost recalls his time as a P&O Deck Cadet SS. Khyber Owner’s P&O 7.675 tons build: 1945 ex- Stanmore, 1947 purchased from J....

Enjoy a Glimpse of Tallinn. If you enjoy this video please Subscribe to Salty Seadog Youtube Channel On a recent Baltic Cruise, our first...

2022 marks 40 years since the Falklands conflict. On 2nd April 1982, Argentine forces invaded the British overseas territory of the...

Silver Moon Cruise Line: Silversea Year Built: 2020 Capacity: 596 passengers Number of Crew: 411 Decks: 8 Gross Tonnage: 40,700 Length:...

Murder down below on the ss.Orsova in 1973.

EVERGREEN - "EVER ACE" - The world's largest container ship This week we heard that the largest container ship in the world arrived in...

Harland and Wolff Shipyard Belfast Harland and Wolff shipyard famous for building the Titanic was brought out of administration in 2019...

THE PANAMA CANAL GONGOOZELING Being a north country lad from the English Lake District, I was interested to discover that Gongoozler was...

Dominion Monarch - Shaw Savill and Albion Line - Silvertown (You will recognise this photo if you watch the BBC's popular series "Call...

Mention of Pacific Princess and the “The Love Boat” springs immediately to mind. This is what happened on a recent cruise on Azamara...

50 Years on A Memorial Service will take place at The Church of All Hallows by the Tower of London. Wednesday 11th May @ 2.00pm Fifty...

Bolette in Amsterdam FRED OLSEN has its following and it is very easy to see why when you step onboard a FRED ship as we did last week as...

It was a very sad moment in November last year when I heard the sad news that Cathy had passed away in her native California. I had the...

AZAMARA SPAIN INTENSIVE CRUISE MARCH 2022 LISBON After three rather wet days in one of the oldest cities in the World, we set sail from...

When you paint a cruise ship the colour of a lifejacket that should be the clue to the cruises on offer, or at least that seemed the case...

The Deck Officers claim the bridge is the nerve centre of the ship, the engineers will disagree of course, but the real nerve centre was...