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This theme explores visiting new places and experiencing new cultures
Bob Cawley
Taking a break on the Suez Canal
Bob Cawley at San Domingo
Continuous Certificate of Discharge 1
Individual Certificate
Continuous Certificate of Discharge 3
The merchant navy and St. Elmo's Fire
Doug Cross
In a Calcutta Park
I Sailed the World with 30 Men by Joan Horsburgh
Port Saint John
Continuous Certificate of Discharge
Swimming with sharks
Dorothy Irons
The Spanish Civil War
The Russia convoys part one
The Russia convoys part two
Joan Horsbourgh
Stephen Hudson
Favourite surfing locations in the North East
Sam Lamiroy
The next generation of surfers
Jimmy Harris
Wartime experiences in the Royal Navy part two
Ray Lorrison
Joining the merchant navy
Continuous Certificate of Discharge
Bill Wold
Adjusting to life at sea
Durban
Photograph of Bill
Submarine in Cape Town
Fred Newman
The catering boy's wages
The Hudson Bay
Leisure time in the merchant navy
Dave Graham
What does the sea mean to you?
Michael Wilson
Following his father to sea
First voyage and New York
John Watson
First voyage, carrying dynamite through a hurricane
What does the sea mean to you?
Derek Denny
The Doxford's technical office and sea trials
Maurice Clyde
What does the sea mean to you?
Keith Halliday
Service call outs
Favourite places
Jet lag
Tim Gladders
Equipment
Sandy Kinghorn
Adjusting to life at sea
Progress through the merchant navy
Taking the family to sea
Chooky the rooster
The Doxford Song
Notebooks and diaries of flights and voyages
The Panama Canal
The Golden Bear
Taking the family on ship
Loading cargo in Ghana
Chooky the Rooster
Peter Fairbairn
Following the herring
Bill Bendelow
First trip to sea
Bart Taylor
Going to sea with the merchant navy
Career at sea
Table Mountain
Emily Robinson
Leaving Cullercoats for London during the war
Thoughts on leaving Cullercoats
Jen Taylor
In the Wrens during World War Two
Keith Atkinson
First voyage with the Bank Line
Michael Holford
Instructing
Josie Gould
Bessie Todd
Stan Holford
Diving in Malta
Wreck diving
Waterskiing the English Channel
David Aris
Workers at Doxford's
George Gardner
Africa
Shanghai