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My dad was a stocker in the Merchant navy during the war, my brother join the RAN at 15, and I was planning to follow his steps but I lost my mother at 14 so after her death I also tried to join the Merchant navy and put my name down at 14 but there was a big waiting list did all the medicals and paper work, but when I turned 15 I got into motorcycles instead, but we always had a boat of some sort and did some work on trawlers and owned a small 27' timber bay cruiser, that was a great boat bringing up the kids and family as well mates fishing trips away, salt water is in the blood, but am glad I stuck with the motorcycles, I don't miss the haul outs and maintenance on the boat but.

This is a pic of my dad's ship not long after it was built and launched in 1939 and the second pic is when my dad was a stoker on it during the war and the third pic tied up somewhere at a coastal port on the Queensland coast 1944, my dad took the last pic, the last 2 pics in its war colour's he was 19 at the time.
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<blockquote data-quote="ashman" data-source="post: 603565" data-attributes="member: 2326">My dad was a stocker in the Merchant navy during the war, my brother join the RAN at 15, and I was planning to follow his steps but I lost my mother at 14 so after her death I also tried to join the Merchant navy and put my name down at 14 but there was a big waiting list did all the medicals and paper work, but when I turned 15 I got into motorcycles instead, but we always had a boat of some sort and did some work on trawlers and owned a small 27&#039; timber bay cruiser, that was a great boat bringing up the kids and family as well mates fishing trips away, salt water is in the blood, but am glad I stuck with the motorcycles, I don&#039;t miss the haul outs and maintenance on the boat but.This is a pic of my dad&#039;s ship not long after it was built and launched in 1939 and the second pic is when my dad was a stoker on it during the war and the third pic tied up somewhere at a coastal port on the Queensland coast 1944, my dad took the last pic, the last 2 pics in its war colour&#039;s he was 19 at the time.[ATTACH=full]101505[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]101506[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]101507[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ashman, post: 603565, member: 2326"] My dad was a stocker in the Merchant navy during the war, my brother join the RAN at 15, and I was planning to follow his steps but I lost my mother at 14 so after her death I also tried to join the Merchant navy and put my name down at 14 but there was a big waiting list did all the medicals and paper work, but when I turned 15 I got into motorcycles instead, but we always had a boat of some sort and did some work on trawlers and owned a small 27' timber bay cruiser, that was a great boat bringing up the kids and family as well mates fishing trips away, salt water is in the blood, but am glad I stuck with the motorcycles, I don't miss the haul outs and maintenance on the boat but. This is a pic of my dad's ship not long after it was built and launched in 1939 and the second pic is when my dad was a stoker on it during the war and the third pic tied up somewhere at a coastal port on the Queensland coast 1944, my dad took the last pic, the last 2 pics in its war colour's he was 19 at the time. [ATTACH type="full"]101505[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]101506[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]101507[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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