Reply #9 SEAJ's post
Hi SEAJ,
I would first like to thank you for your guidance in recommending I transfer onto the main board my story as I was hesitant in posting at all, because I thought no one would believe my age and story and think it was a prank.
You are quite right in pointing out the cost of living at that time if I remember rightly My salary as a junior engineer was 65 pounds sterling a month but of course I had no other expenses,we as officers got 5* treatment on the ship.
One story I meant to include in the original draft was unique to Hong Kong and occurred every night around the Harbour, I didn't come across it anywhere else in the world. As you may have seen in old photo's the harbour was always full of ships tied up to the anchored buoys, in this situation the ships alway had one deck and one engineer officer on board in case of emergency, but they didn't miss out,the "Meat Boat" would arrive alongside between 9-00 to 11-00pm and mamasan with 5or6 girls would come aboard, we could take our pick and they the junk would retun to pick them up before 6-00am. So that means as a forerunner to walk up and walk in girls we had the the SAIL UP GIRLS.
Once again SEAJ Thanks Cheers George. | |
