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scaeri
Just Boarded
Member # 3421

posted 11-04-2002 12:29 PM

Hi everyone! I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone of you is a former crew member like me.

This is a friendly forum and I hope to make some new friends here.

Posts: 4 | From: Pittsburgh PA | Registered: Oct 2002 | IP: Logged

Willem
First Class Passenger
Member # 3005

posted 11-04-2002 12:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scaeri:
Hi everyone! I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone of you is a former crew member like me.
This is a friendly forum and I hope to make some new friends here.

Yes, crewmember on s.s. Rotterdam, 1959 - 1960.

Willem van der Leek

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Frank X. Prudent
First Class Passenger
Member # 1723

posted 11-05-2002 12:52 PM

I was a "lord-high" Watchman on the Str. DELTA QUEEN during 1983. Then during 1984 I was a Purser on the Str. BELLE OF LOUISVILLE.

Both are one of a kind sternwheel steamboats. The DELTA QUEEN built in Stockton,CA. during the twenties is the last wooden overnight steamboat carrying passengers for hire in America. The BELLE OF LOUISVILLE made her maiden voyage in 1915. Today she mostly makes excursion trips in the Louisville harbor during the summer months.

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Baker
First Class Passenger
Member # 1311

posted 11-06-2002 11:01 PM

scaeri,
Probably well before your time I was a baker for Cunard and Orient Lines 1960/63.and 2nd Cook and baker on a cargo passenger ship, have a look in the photo gallery. Voyages Past.. ( Sail with the crew of a cargo/passenger ship)... B

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scaeri
Just Boarded
Member # 3421

posted 11-16-2002 04:38 PM

Thanks for responding. Baker, I checked out your picture in your profile. You're quite a dish!

Actually, I worked for Carnival Lines' TSS Festival way back in 1981 in the beauty salon. Not very exciting, I'm afraid! But it was a great experience.

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 11-22-2002 09:41 PM

Assistant Cruise Director / Entertainer Nordic Prince & Song of America (Royal Caribbean)

Assistant Cruise Director / Shore Excursions Manager / Cruise Director / aboard the
mv Empress & Pacific Star. (Starlite Cruises)

Entertainment Host aboard the Zenith (Celebrity Cruises)

Stage Manager aboard the QE2 (Cunard Line)

There's my cruise ship job resume.

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Tim Agg
First Class Passenger
Member # 3185

posted 11-22-2002 10:52 PM

If day-cruisers count, I spent a pleasant summer [1968] as a fireman in the Princess Marguerite's boiler room, running between Victoria and Seattle.

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