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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Post.....15, Somewhere on the Chinese coast.

We left H.K.as quietly as we sailed into the harbour in the evening dusk,
full ahead for a destination in China which until this day I don't know or can not remember the port of call.
All I know is that it was at night when we arrived,really cold,damp,rain and dark,.
I believe it was just a port of call for re-fuelling. maybe the oil was cheaper there.
Nobody that I know of went a shore, not even the passengers.
I spent a lot of my time in the engine room at this particular time,
It was warm and comfortable down there.
We left as quickly as we arrived, a stay of no more than 12 or 16 hours,the next port of call was Kobe in Japan.
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  1. Nick MessingerNovember 18, 2020 at 5:17 AM

    As a former Chusan First Officer I greatly enjoyed your reminiscences but wonder what that mysterious Chinese Port was? 1967 was not a particularly pleasant time to visit China!

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