Trevor Doyle Gally boy of the Yorkshire Rose Now this man had shown me my sleeping quarters , locker bunk. He said get shifted I said shifted where, , are you a bit dippy , get change for work and sea . I did that, went to the gally , first job go and get some coal.for the gally stove, I thought he meant a bucket full type like from the coal house like we had at home, NO, he gave me this nov canvas bag must of held 4/6 stones. with a strop like horse collar , where do I get from , down there and pointed down this place, with two lots of ladders , like stairs about 30/40 ft down, Saw this other man got to know he was the Chief Eng, I have for coal mister , go they there Into the stoke hole, another man who said who are you , gally boy, no whats your name, Trevor Doyle. , he said you can call me Matey His name was Matey Foster a well known man Then he started filling this bag, thought OMG How my going to lift that all the way up those stairs , so I drag it thru the engine room And got to the bottom of the ladders put the strop round and over my shoulder and started to atempt to get up the ladder I got to the first landing it went real easy it was Matey carry it for me had met some one who was friendly got the coal in the bunker, then the cook gave me a load more jobs to do I had only been onboard half an Hour, not got out of the dock First trip started well nearly ,
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:28:14 +0000
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