Tank Ship Poems - Poems about Tank Ship

...The shipping accident It was late evening when the captain of a Russian owner cargo came down from the bridge where he and the first mate had mapped the route from Humberside to Amsterdam. North S......

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...Egon Hedin the cook When I joined the ship as a second cook I had trained as a baker, on a tank ship with forty crews, one, who could bake a passable loaf was needed The cook’s name was Egon Hedin,......

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...A boy and shore leave  The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old tank ship late at night, looking up at the millions of stars over The Red Sea. His job was to clean pots an......

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...Russia, my lovely Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956 as the youngest of the crew of mostly middle-aged men it is safe to assume I'm th......

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...love on the high seas He was a happy man, had passed the catering exam, and got employment as second cook on a tank ship To make happiness perfect his girlfriend had a job on the same ship, keep......

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...Assassination of President Kennedy The tank ship was on the way to Kingston in Jamaica The sea was deep blue, the weather calm, In a few hours, we could stretch our legs and have a beer because ......

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...A boy and shore leave The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old tank ship late at night looking up to the millions of stars over The Red Sea. His job was to clean pots and pan......

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...The end of everything The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years he had been the master of the ship, a friendship between the animate ......

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...A ship’s last voyage The tank ship that looked like a schooner finally made it from the black sea to Reykjavik in Iceland The ship dry as the dust of the Sahara surrounded by undrinkable wate......

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...68 years ago 68 years ago, I was onboard the world's oldest tank ship wooden decks and looking like a sailing ship more than a tanker in the Black Sea on the way to Odesa. The sea had ice fla......

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...Voyaging The high seas and the battle for a meaning of life, not on a ship that runs on routine. The Panama Canal, have I been there once not sure, I vaguely remember a tank ship pulled by t......

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...Remembering a dog When I was young and for us not rich there was navy academia you could learn engineering, navigation and catering, with my eyesight I settled for catering After going throu......

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...Agoraphobia Voyaging from Cuba to South Korea across the Pacific takes about three weeks on an old freighter, but we knew it had a beginning and an ending. We have been held up in our flat for t......

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...The Cow By the edge of the cliff where the grass is juicy the cow tried to eat it all the last straw you can say alas, it tipped over and fell into the sea and since happened in Dover, it swam ......

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...The Merchant seafarers` war When world war two started Norway was neutral but unsure which side to stay on. The English thought occupying Norway but they were too late the German army had don......

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