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Change: 1Thomas' Story Part 2Anton's StoryMartin's Story Cedric's Story_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Australian Use Simple Facts Technical Detail Gallery Notes Various Pics Eng Room 1 Eng Room 2 Pre Refurbishment Pics Pre Refurbishment Pics 2 Triple Expansion Engines Memories Of The Alwyn Vintcent Mossel Bay Contacts Credits And Links
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Change: Anyway, I went back to John Davis in the engine room and told him I could see the pickup strainers in the tanks exposed and
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Change: It was fortunately just before the Easter Weekend (’96) so I drove to Cape Town to discuss and attempt to resolve the matter.On inspection of
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Change: Coalcor delivered 12 to 16 tons of coal and dumped it at west quay. Collectively, the SAMM staff, myself included (especially in the early days)
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Oct 18 2008, 12:21 AM EDT
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Change: It was time to put the plan into action. Malan Skinner, the berthing master at Cape Town Harbour, Joao and I loaded the museum’s bakkie
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Change: I must point out that the smaller tugs of the SAR & H fleet such as the SG Stephens, RA Leigh and the sisters of Alwyn Vincent, the CecilG. White, SJ Harrison, JE Eaglesham and the William Weller were,
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Change: As mentioned my part to play was maintaining the radar and radio. The radar was a Decca 220? which used valves (remember the vacuum tube
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Change: {children}From "Bob D" South Africa"I was the Marine Radio Technician at Mossel Bay during 1958 when the Alwyn Vintcent arrived (named after the chairman of the Mossel Bay Boating Company).I can remember standing at the end of the
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Change: From Martin - Sedgefield, SA "About ten of us flew into South Africa from Australia in June of 1983, and came down from Johannesburg (by steam train!) and boarded the RA Leigh in Cape Town harbour - she was moored where
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Change: Another conference in the wheelhouse. This time it was all hands on deck. They were told to find every piece of timber they could, and
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Change: various people who remember the Alwyn Vintcent from earlier times:From "Bob D" South Africa"I was the Marine Radio Technician at Mossel Bay during 1958 when the Alwyn Vintcent arrived (named after the chairman of the Mossel Bay Boating Company).I can remember standing at
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Change: It was fortunately just before the Easter Weekend (’96) so I drove to Cape Town to discuss and attempt to resolve the matter.On inspection of
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