Dickie Bull
Dickie Bull Deputy Purser for the Inaugural Cruise of P&O/Princess Cruises PACIFIC PRINCESS - 1975 - Sadly passed away recently. In 1974...
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Randolph Magri-Overend
Aug 12, 20236 min read
BETTER ON A CAMEL
By Randolph Magri-Overend EMPRESS OF CANADA The EMPRESS OF CANADA was the last passenger ship to be built for Canadian Pacific's...
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Salty Seadog
Aug 6, 20237 min read
ORIANA REUNITED
THE POWER OF THE INTERNET SS. ORIANA - The last and largest liner to be built in Barrow-in-Furness I joined Oriana in November 1973; we...
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Randolph Magri-Overend
Apr 29, 20236 min read
OF NUTS AND BOLTERS
By Randolph Magri-Overend. Randolph Magri-Overend was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1940. He ran away to sea as a Cadet Purser with Canadian...
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Jamie Shedden
Jan 15, 20235 min read
A LIFETIME OF BAGGAGE
By Jamie Shedden The Boat Train Has Arrived After 37 with Air New Zealand, you would think that Jamie Shedden would know all there was to...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 11, 20225 min read
A POSSE 0F PURSERS
P&O Purser Cadet - Passing out in 1974 - Cheeky face of Terry Williams (Front 2nd Left) Shaw Savill Pursers taking a well-earned break....
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Salty Seadog
Oct 16, 20225 min read
An Officer's Stripes
The Purser's Stripes - Island Princess - 1977 Now that I have started to cruise as a passenger some 44 years after working onboard...
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Salty Seadog
Mar 5, 20224 min read
The Patter of Italian Feet.
When I joined Oriana in 1973, remember this was pre-computer days and everything was done by hand or on very primitive equipment. For...
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Salty Seadog
Jan 29, 20226 min read
Oriana 1970's - It's Not Cricket
And Memories of the South Pacific Following the terrible devestation caused by the Volcanic eruption on Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu,...
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Jamie Shedden
Dec 4, 20214 min read
Officer's sometimes get the best cabins. Southern Cross and Oriana.
By Jamie Shedden As junior purser on Shaw Savill's ss. Southern Cross I had a grandstand view from the bridge when I was ‘berthed’ in...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 27, 20214 min read
Cathy Hooper - Cruisemaster Hostess and other Great P&O Princess Girls
Cathy Hooper and I in Glacier Bay Alaska 1975 - Pacific Princess I had the great pleasure of sailing with Cathy Hooper way back at the...
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Salty Seadog
Nov 14, 20215 min read
Oriana 1973 - 48 Years on and we haven't changed a bit
One of my former seagoing colleagues and friend Stuart Bennett turned 70 this week and of course, it got me thinking of the fun times we...
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Salty Seadog
Oct 30, 20217 min read
Princess Cruises Then and Now
Island Princess 1974 Sky Princess 2021 Island Princess 1974 Sky Princess 2019 Tonnage 19,900 Tonnage 145,281 Length ...
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Jamie Shedden
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Cadets, Cocktails and a Officer is Logged.
Shaw Savill A Ships By Jamie Shedden When I joined Arawa in January 1970, I was surprised that the Purser's staff were made up with...
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Jamie Shedden
Aug 15, 20217 min read
PACK YOUR BAGS FOR THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME - AIR & SEA
By Jamie Shedden When I joined Shaw Savill in 1967 as assistant Purser, one of the many jobs of the Purser was to “wear” the baggage...
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Jamie Brandane
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Stowaways and Other Problems - South Africa Now & Then
Jamie was a purser with Shaw Savill and has been sharing some of his stories here on “Ramblings of a Salty Seadog”. This week I received...
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Salty Seadog
Jun 13, 20214 min read
DOWN IN THE GALLEY
Oriana 1974 On joining the great steamship Oriana I was lucky to be appointed Junior Catering Assistant Purser. I loved catering and had...
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Michael Brady
Jun 10, 20219 min read
Behind the Purser's Deck
LIFE AT SEA WITH PAUL MOTTE-HARRISON By Michael Brady If the beating heart of a ship is its engine room then the Purser’s Office is its...
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Jamie Brandane
Jun 6, 20212 min read
The Purser is a Banker
Prior to getting the job at sea, when I left school, I had a job with the British Linen Bank, in Glasgow, one of many branches in the...
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H Bonning
Jun 3, 20212 min read
Orsova Visits Casablanca
Through the eyes of assistant purser Harry Bonner in 1968 On one cruise we called at Casablanca. One of the shore excursions was a trip...
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