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Radio Room: Cunard cargo liner ss Alaunia/GFQU
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Alaunia/GFQU waiting to depart Huskisson Dock, Liverpool in 1966.
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Radio Room: Brocklebank Line mv Mahsud/GYMT. Photo taken in 1969. Tony Selman still hard at work.
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mv Mahsud. My last ship in Brock’s and on charter to Mitsui at the time although in this photo she looks fine in original Brocklebank Line colours. Fastest ship in the fleet with a charter speed of 18 knots.
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QSO Editor Ian Channing almost unrecognisable in his youth! Taken on board mv Knightsgarth in early 1960’s.
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mv Knightsgarth/GHHK
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mv Gambada/GNOY arriving at Donges, NW France, in 1973
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P&O gas tanker mv Gambada/GNOY. Interestingly two ROA members have links to the ship. Tony Selman was the R/O for a long, hairy and happy voyage in 1974 and Archivist Willie Williamson installed the radio equipment when the ship was built at Cammell Lairds. The radio fit was standard for P&O vessels at the time.
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The workshop area of mv Gambada. P&O were were very generous with the spares and tools on all of their ships but quite rightly expected the R/O’s to fix everything.
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Radio Room: Mabel Warwick/ ? with ROARS Chairman Tom Frawley, plus hair, seated.
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Tom Frawley on board Houlder Bros. mv Mabel Warwick/GGZE in Vitoria, Brazil in 1974
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A recent photo of Tom Frawley providing proof that he can certainly fit in his old uniform.
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ROA Secretary Jim Loughlin on board Shell VLCC Mactra/GYKR. Some people change over the years and some do not. Jim looks exactly the same now as he did then!
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Jim Loughlin on boardShell VLCC Mactra/GYKR. Jim left in December 1969 and 3 weeks later Mactra exploded whilst tank cleaning. After the BOT enquiry many safety changes were made in respect of tank cleaning on VLCC’s.
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Radio Room: ss Roatan/ GZPV with R/O Jim Loughlin. Despite being built in 1944 GZPV is shown here with a 1970 IMRC fit with Redifon R408 receiver and STC 1600 main transmitter.
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Jim Loughlin inside a Kelvin Hughes photoplot radar. Anyone unfortunate enough to have sailed with one of these beasts will fully understand the “what have I done to deserve this” bemused look on Jim’s face.
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R/O Doug Howick on duty in Radio Room of mv Port Fairy/GSTP in 1957.
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A bird in the Radio Room. Robin Powell and friend on board Haustrum/GRFT. One wonders how many other members had ‘birds’ in their Radio Rooms?
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Radio Room: Shell tanker Haustrum/GRFT. R/O was Robin Powell. The equipment was from Siemens.
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Shell tanker Haustrum/GRFT
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Robin Powell with smoke coming out of his head. A close up view of a DF loop and some aerials for the afficionados of equipment to be found on monkey islands. Vessel is Shell tanker Haustrum/GRFT
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Robin Powell on the bridge of Haustrum/GRFT. A plainly obvious location and Robin showing firstly that he was a man of the wavy braid fraternity and secondly he hasn’t changed that much over the years.
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First Met Mike Carter at Brookes Bar IMR Radio College Manchester. Looks abit different now but as the Roars Net Guy these days – well Done Mike.
Clive Evans 16/11/2015
Very disappointed to see Mr Valentine is not wearing a shirt. Obviously Bibby Line standards were slipping by this time and not the Rig Of the Day that one would expect from a future ROA Web Team member. Certainly would not have happened in the companies I worked for.