[BITList] more dara

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you visited  dara about a year before I joined, hugh
we had no indian engineers while I was there. the 4EO was a big-head from tyne side [mike jenkings?] and 3EO was wee jimmy hill from glasgow – a very nice lad.
senior 5EO mike belton kept a watch with another JEO and eventually made CEO in BI. I saw where he had passed away about 8 to 12 years ago!
the 2EO then was an english guy – mike chester who didn’t like jimmy hill at all. 
the CEO was hector harkiss – a scot. he never came near the ER or came out of his quarters for that matter. 
I was on the ozarda in bombay about a year or more later [he was CEO there] when he was carried off the ship on a stretcher – he was paralytically inebriated and had been like that for a long time. I wonder if he recovered. did any one know hector?
colin

From: HUGH 
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [BITList] P&O Heritage Spring Newsletter (Apologies!)

Colin, Frank,

I was on Dara. We were there (Bombay?) probably 1957 when she was there, and we went aboard to be sociable.  I recall an Indian 4th or 3rd E/O who gave Fats Waller impressions at the writing desk, and a Siamese cat who lay on the tops of the doors. Beyond that, nothing.  Jack Edgar relieved me as daywork fiver on Uganda in 1956, when I joined Chakdara, and he was 3rd on Dara when the bomb(s) went off, but if he was aboard her when I was there we didn't meet.

Hugh.


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