Sailed with BP from '71 to '74. Unity, Navigator, Mariner, Confidence (twice - don't ask) Norness and Pioneer. I left to study marine radio for 2 yrs and by that time there was no merchant navy left so ended up shoreside working for GPO telephones....
Really hacks me off to see 100 Years of BP Shipping featuring British Robin full of Indians from top to bottom. A great company once filled with great people was taken down by not only external circumstances but primarily by shoddy, shameful management and corporate greed.
Sailed with BP from '71 to '74. Unity, Navigator, Mariner, Confidence (twice - don't ask) Norness and Pioneer. I left to study marine radio for 2 yrs and by that time there was no merchant navy left so ended up shoreside working for GPO telephones....
Poplar, Ambassador, Gannet, Navigator, Dart, Osprey, Swift, Humber, Hawthorn, Reliance. 72 to 78
i was waiting for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to make an appearance….just had that effect on me
British Mariner 1965/6. British Cavalier 1966/7. Good company, good ships, good ship mates.
We chose BP but they got rid off us British Seaman 😢😢😢😢
Really hacks me off to see 100 Years of BP Shipping featuring British Robin full of Indians from top to bottom. A great company once filled with great people was taken down by not only external circumstances but primarily by shoddy, shameful management and corporate greed.
Spent 3 years with BP Tankers from '73 until '76, Loyalty, Light, Pioneer, Gannet, Vine.
Sailed with BP 72 till 81 Argosy,Gull,Fern,Bombardier,Navigator,Beech,Explorer,Minab,Stena Baltica,Border Castle,Forth,Shirvan.
Spent 4years with BP TANKERS British Queen 1966 /Finnart/Kharg island Via Cape Town Also The Comet,Patrol,Hawthorn Happy Memories
Joined ss norness at Lyme bay (April 74) first trip to sea,left her (sept 74 At finnart greenock, Glasgow