2022 March | Liverpool Ships and Sailors

P&O FERRIES DOVER: AN AGENCY EMPLOYEE’S STORY.

On 31 Mar, 2022 By James Hart With Comments Off

Allegedly the instructions sent to Interforce security guards ( many are ex-military) on 17 March 2022.Note the comment about ‘Cuffs, Utility belt and Body Armour?’ Against long-serving employees who had done nothing wrong.Remember the miners’ strike? Well, it looks like Thatcherism all over again, doesn’t it? I usually got called for a P&O ferry assignment in Dover once or twice yearly and although well…

CITIZEN SAILORS: HMCS SACKVILLE.

On 15 Mar, 2022 By James Hart With Comments Off

Surely not another preserved WW2 warship? We’ve got plenty in the U.K. already (yawn!). Maybe, but from hundreds built as sturdy dependable escort craft, the Sackville is the only Flower-class corvette left in the world. She’s in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Canada’s Naval Memorial, a WW2 combat veteran and latterly a museum ship open to the public. And the top of the gangway has a mural of Disney’s sailor-suited Donald Duck, broom in his…