howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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you can pick out colins dad(dead spit) and peter noone, but which of the others was the yorkshire ripper?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Howard, we`re on the same wavelength mate. More him looking like the ripper than the other as Peter Noone methinks.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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There were in fact a couple of merchant seamen who were questioned by police during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
They were working on shuttle tankers in the North Sea and their leave periods happened to correlate with the dates on which the murders took place.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
Hi Colin, I'll dig out some photos of our Dad and Grandad - Gerry Stevens and Percy Stevens. Very well known in British Rail/Sealink/cross-channel ferry/Dover/Folkestone/Boulogne circles.
Thanks for all the great photos you put on here.
Cheers,
Andy
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I also worked for a time in the 1980s for Sealink as the crew mess man, I took ayear out of welding and joined Sealink but ended up doing both the welding and crew messman..I am now looking at my old seamans discharge book .I was in the NUS ,I had the Basic sea survival course and wet drill done that on the 3.3.86 I worked on four ships one was the St DAVID,Seafreight Freeway ,St Ansham, +the two at Folkestone.
The dates was from 07.06.85to 27.1.86, I then went back full time welding for a company and stay on welding for a some years.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Vic, you might have worked with my late husband Peter he was on the Freeway, St Anselm and also the Folkestone run. He had a beard and would have been 2nd steward around that time I should think. He ended up as catering officer prior to rushing to get redundancy, the fastest I ever saw him move.LOL
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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sorry to say this jan but bearing in mind post 23, and the fact that your late husband was called peter and sported a beard, would a confession be the order of the day?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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ok jan , let you off just this once, did he drive a van?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Jan, It was avery long time ago and I do not know what I was doing last week so I am sorry but can not place him.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Jan, It was avery long time ago and I do not know what I was doing last week so I am sorry but can not place him.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,833
Vic, he may not have been on those ships when you were.
He was on the Freeway when it caught fire so he had to deal with the burns victims and it really affected his outlook on life afterwards, hence his taking redundancy so happily.
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