Austins Afloat

[DaveT]

Now that brings back distant memories, back in the early 1970's I was also at sea and our clinker built lifeboats had I believe Thetis or Triton engines, but it was never the middies job it was either the Junior or 4th Engineers responsibility in Elder Dempster & Blue Funnel lines. The first time we used the lifeboat in anger at anchorage off Apapa, Lagos the lifeboat started to sink and they had to use the derricks to raise us up out of the water. Oh the good old days now all long gone.