The Four Lives Of Sinbad - Nov 16 2016

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My first service as a third navigation officer on the m.s. Byfjord in 1956 took me the long way to Santos in Brazil, sharing the three watches with my fellow navigation officers, taking daily sextant sights of the sun and stars, and still remember my amazement when finally one morning the Santos estuary appeared on the bows, exactly as planned. I knew it was possible in theory, but seeing the proof amazed me. I sailed on alltogether 11 ships : KNM Stavanger- ss Norefjord- Black Heron- Sunny Girl Panama Express-Giert Torgersen-Glomdal- Alvdal- Storesand – Skaubryn – Byfjord
A year later,I joined the MS Skaubryn in 1957, an emigrant ship and former troop transporter sailing between Bremerhaven and Australia. As this was during the Suez crisis and blockade, we had to sail the long way around Cape Town and the 'Roaring forties'. For most of us who had not ever served on a 'passenger ship' and had only worn the necessary working uniforms, which for the engineer officers meant a peak cap with the company´s badge and a sweat shirt, it became a tremendous culture clash donning a full dress uniform for dinner, white with gold buttons for the tropics. We were expected to circle in the several bars on board, conversing with our passengers. Unfortunately, for one, after a great number of in-expensive drinks, (you just signed a little chit and your salary was debited at the end of the month) the jacket came off, then the tie and he was doing the rock´n roll in a bare torso. <strong>The</strong> next morning we were all called on parade in the captain´s cabin and given a strict, one time warning about instant dismissal should this sort of behaviour ever happen again.
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