Enjoying my deep sea experiences I had call from old shipmate who said Gardners where looking for A/B's and having just got my ticket I shipped back out on coasters. Joining the M/V Saint Brandan, M/V Edgar Dorman, M/V David Dorman, M/V Craigallian and M/V Peacock Venture, the familarity of these vessel was reasuring and using my deep sea experience enjoyed my time back on these ships but the cooking was not for me so went home to explore other avenues and signed back on the Swansea Pool but with defederation and flagging out the jobs were getting harder to come by and this started the birth of the agencies.
M/V Peacock Venture laden with pot ash from Gdansk to Dublin seen here leaving the Baltic sailing North about to seek shelter from the gale forcast in English Channel. A seven day trip either way you sailed, fortunately the temperature rose before we had to manuelly remove the ice.
M/V Craigallian off St David's Head South Wales with an impromtu visit from an RAF Seaking SAR Helicopter delivering the old man his daily newspapers.It was quite common for them to practice winching on and off passing vessels.
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