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With the Grand Prix coming up on the 24th and a chance to see the area as it now is I thought it would be interesting to see how many Grey Funnel Line ships have visited in the past via fotos and also see how the background ~ harbour, buildings, people, clothes etc. ~ have changed over the years. Heres your starter for 2. Fishey Friends. Pelican and Mermaid alongside in 1950. The old song Night and Day, Day and Night comes to mind? What do you get when you cross a Pelican with a Mermaid? A big mouthed girl with a long bum. Sorry. Perhaps Cylla will add his pair please? Regards David. P.S. I bought the postcards during the visit. A cup of coffee was 3/6d = to a 1st Class Boy's weekly pay at Ganges at that time. The 3rd card shows the gardens in front of the Casino. We were taken inside during a visit of the local sites. How the other half lived. And still do!
Hi Mousey ,
I notice i had a mention on your post ,yep i will do as you ask ,
We are the inboard of ARGONAUT,and if the piccy comes up large , i am stood right at the front on the bows ,with my hands behind my back. [we were cable party]that,s why you see me loafing. :D
The other one needs no description ,i think,just passing the break water.
I would just like to mention ,though posting this piccy on another website,i made great mates with a "bunting tosser " off the ARGONAUT.he is one of the moderators.
And we have meet up during a couple of there get together,s,..if i never said owt ,i would be up ,in front of the "captains table".
Mousey happy to oblige
Cylla
Tks v.m. Cylla. Thats the one I was thinking of and yes it has come up nearly 2/3rd's on a 17" screen. Can see you quite clearly. The quality of yours compared with mine shows the age difference and improvements re photography. Lets hope this will create some interest for others to 'fish' their's out. Regards David.
Tiger visited Monte Carlo in Nov. 65. We anchored outside the harbour due to the weather. When Prince Renier & Princess Grace came onboard for a visit the Captain insisted that the main engines should be at immediate notice to turn the ship for safe boarding & leaving because of the weather. Guess who the Duty Engineer was , right me, so I didn't get to see them. Unfortunately I have no photos of the ship on this visit.:(:(
tonclass
12-05-2009, 17:47
David, which ship is which ? Who's inboard and who's outboard ?
Cheers
RIK
MAGPIE could be the out board one ......if you look at the pair with the photo taken on the jetty ,there is a name ,just above the aft awning .
CYLLA
tonclass
12-05-2009, 17:59
Well spotted Cylla. I missed that. Cheers
David, which ship is which ? Who's inboard and who's outboard ?
Cheers
Rik Pelican is inboard/alongside. Leader's black band round top of funnel. It would not do for Capt. Bonham-Carter, cousin of Queen Mum, having to walk across another JUNIOR (!) ship to get ashore would it? Regards David. P.S. Have a look at the last thread of Minesweepers and Layers.
tonclass
12-05-2009, 21:43
Cheers David. I must say your pic-posting had come on leaps and bounds since last week.
Didn't realise Obedient was an aux-minelayer.
tonclass
12-05-2009, 21:49
Keeping this theme going here are few 'tiddlers' in Monaco in 1957.
Nice clear foto Rik and shows the 'mini' mountain/hillside off very well. Reminds me now they took us down to Nice, yes I've got the post cards from there too but wont bore you with them, in some kind of coach, along the coast road and brought us back via the 'mountain' one. Lovely views with the Med the same colour as our collars! Night. David.
tonclass
13-05-2009, 00:08
HMS ARGONAUT entering...........
astraltrader
13-05-2009, 00:44
Another two great pictures Rik. I love the one of the sweepers in Monaco.:)
Nice clear foto Rik and shows the 'mini' mountain/hillside off very well. Reminds me now they took us down to Nice, yes I've got the post cards from there too but wont bore you with them, in some kind of coach, along the coast road and brought us back via the 'mountain' one. Lovely views with the Med the same colour as our collars! Night. David.
Hi Mousey ,
yep i have a post card from NICE , that was our next port of call.
cylla
HMS ARGONAUT entering...........
Yes Rik another lovely clear foto of Argo. I note blues are being worn so must have been winter. More room in the harbour as all the beautiful people and their yachts would have migrated. Impressed by the number of crew on deck but perhaps that was the point being made. Regards David.
mousey,
IT was either November ,or December time ,we went there .
cylla
Not so much that the beautiful people and their boats having migrated but not so many about. Nowadays there is no way you could get a frigate into the harbour - too many posh boats, quite a few of them being purchased from Princess Yachts - plus the French Navy would have had priority!!
Mik
Not so much that the beautiful people and their boats having migrated but not so many about. Nowadays there is no way you could get a frigate into the harbour - too many posh boats, quite a few of them being purchased from Princess Yachts - plus the French Navy would have had priority!!
Mik
Not to mention the 'mooring fees' which I dont think we had to pay in ye olde days? They were glad to have some customers for their coffee!
Mousey,
Here is a couple of pics i have dug out for you .
The first is a view form the SCYLLA,...............and the second is some of the ship,s crew off the SCYLLA.....having a run ashore,
The chap on the right in front ,in his white front , is "sharky Ward " who was my best man.
Mousey,
Here is a couple of pics i have dug out for you .
The first is a view form the SCYLLA,...............and the second is some of the ship,s crew off the SCYLLA.....having a run ashore,
The chap on the right in front ,in his white front , is "sharky Ward " who was my best man.
Thanks Cylla. How times have changed. Those boats would not even be big enough as a tender for the current gin palaces although they are nearly as big as my old MTB - see Hornet thread. Cheers David.
Attached is from last Sunday's Sunday Times which is interesting in that there are no yachts/palaces in sight, very few people and the way the buildings have changed. Regards David.
Cunning photo methinks!! Just behind the punters is a 'beach' with the seaward boundary marked by the floating barrier. Hence the reason for 'no boats' on show.
Mik
Cunning photo methinks!! Just behind the punters is a 'beach' with the seaward boundary marked by the floating barrier. Hence the reason for 'no boats' on show.
Mik
Well spotted Sir. Wont be like that this weekend tho. Mousey.
I now realise that some of you boys just love my olde 127's and that the Moderator will probably close this thread on Sunday evening so I have just managed to find a last offering. Perhaps we even have a mini Gin Palace and her smaller sister as well? It possibly shows the light on the landside breakwater as far more expertly demonstrated in Cylla's posting No.2 ~ did'nt Terry Wogan keep a theme of 'The Lighthouse across the Bay' going in his long past radio programme? Followed by another about cones if I remember correctly? I'm standing by for corrections! Regards to all Mousey. P.S. If this sort of stuff turns you off dont view my forthcoming offerings in the Loch Class.
mousey,
If it,s the Loch class,..i will be on bridge wing ,looking out .:)
cylla
mousey,
If it,s the Loch class,..i will be on bridge wing ,looking out .:)
cylla
Affirmative Cylla. Alvie will be moving down to Sheerwop for ammo and then on our way. See you soon. Mousey
Did anyone see the 'opening' old film shown on BBC1 yesterday at the beginning of the F.1. programme at 1300 please? Included were a couple of shots of a cruiser anchored in the middle of the harbour at Monte Carlo? Looked to be post WWII? She looked similar to a city class - Belfast and Liverpool? Might well have been french tho? Regards David.
Batstiger
08-11-2009, 14:16
I don't know if you have got this one David?
Bob.
Lowering the tone -
occasionally my father talked about his time in the Med Fleet (early 1930s) and their trips ashore - very educational (?) he said, and they all came back singing:-
As I stroll along the boulevard with an independent air
You can hear the girls declare, he must be a millionaire,
You can hear them sigh and wish to die
And then see them wink the other eye
At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
Sorry!!! Edna
I do wish I had kept photos!! :(
Didn't see the programme Mousey, but we (CEYLON) went there in 1958.
When we (SURPRISE..........aka British "Gin Palace") went there in 1962 (or 63) I remarked about not having the smartest "yacht" in Monte Carlo, but having the biggest.
I guess some though dwarfed an ex-Loch/Bay boat!!:D
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