[BITList] more n more dara

[CT's]

didn't see the discussion, hugh
so you knew jackie - any idea what happened to him, where did he go?
we missed on dara -- I didn't join until summer 1958. there was no indian 4eo when I joined. there was a cat or two.
actually they were a really great crowd when I joined [strange how I remember all of them - if not their names)
ceo hector harkis (glasgow - serious drunk, never came into ER, had to be carried off the pundua a year later and retired [if he lasted until he got home]).
2eo mike chester (ponsy guy from grimsby, apprentice on the clyde, killed with entire family in a car accident mombasa area).
3eo was wee jimmy hill (glasgow - very nice guy, greatly disliked by 2eo)
4eo mike jenkings (geordie - fat, big head)
s5eo  mike smith, (big powerful lad from aberdeen, gentle as a lamb, great guy, promoted to 4eo)
5eo don belton (quiet midlander, eventually became ceo in BI, the other list reported he died some time ago)
5eo name forgotten (glasgow, serious music fan, pretty good piano player, Singer Co. apprentice)
j5eo me!
ct 


From: HUGH 
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:05 AM
To: bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com 
Subject: Re: [BITList] more dara


Colin,

A few years back, there was an extensive discussion about the Dara sinking on BIShip, but I can't see it among the various compilations in my archive.  I have one on MN explosions, but Dara doesn't figure.  Jack Edgar must have joined BI about the same time as I did, for he was a new fiver on Uganda when Sandy Souter, Norman Winder and I were staff on her, awaiting our fate elsewhere - we also were brand new.  When Chakdara arrived, Jack took over from me on daywork, and Sandy, Norman and I joined Chakdara.  Three new panchers all at once, no doubt adding another notch to Ernie Elrick's ulcer.  But when his ulcer wasn't bothering him, there was nobody nicer than Ernie.  I had a beer or two aboard Dara in Bombay - that would be late 1957 or early 1958.  I didn't see anything of Jack, but there was an Indian E/O - I think he was 4th - who gave Fats Waller impressions at the writing desk.  Or was it Jimmy Durante? And there was a Siamese cat who lay on the tops of doors.

Hugh.


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