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The Waterguard Staff on Camera - Rummage Crews |
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Station Crew
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c1967/68 (Left to right) Murdo McLeod CPM, Dave Bowman APO, Jimmy Reid PO, Alex Hay & Kenny Watt APOs outside Lossiemouth Custom House, on their way to clear an aircraft at RAF Kinloss. |
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1965 AN Other and Les Frampton APOs going to board a tanker at Milford Haven. The other two crew members were driving the official car to the jetty - a journey of 40 miles round the Haven.
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c1955 (Left to right) John Baverstock, Neville Henshaw, Kenneth Smithard APOs. PO unknown.j |
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Station Crew - c1965-72 Displaying a seizure of Cigarettes. Centre Charlie Beckett PO |
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Station Crew - c1965-72 Proudly displaying a seizure of Spirits, Cigarettes and Tobacco. Centre Charlie Beckett PO
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - 1954 Left to right: - Charlie Beckett, Jimmy Allen & Eric Morton |
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - 1954 Left to right: - Charlie Beckett, Albert I'Anson APOs & Bob Muirhead PO with a German Engineer |
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - 1954 Left to right: - Bob Muirhead PO, Charlie Beckett & Albert I'Anson APOs |
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - 1954 Left to right: Charlie Beckett, Arthur Oliver & Eric Morton APOs |
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - 1954 - Taken at the Hull Waterguard Reunion in 1984 Left to right: - Charlie Beckett, Jimmy Allen, Bob Muirhead & Albert I'Anson |
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Alexandra Dock Station Crew - c1955/1956 Left to right - Albert I'Anson & Jeff Thompson APOs and Bob Muirhead PO |
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Fish Dock Station Crew - 1957 Includes: Arthur Oliver, Gerry Bennett & Dickie Doolin |
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King George Dock Station Crew - 1957 Left to right: AN Other, Ken Dove & Pearse |
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No 2 Mobile Crew - c1955/1956 Left to right: Jim Sharpley PO and Alec Purvis & Dave Moore APOs |
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Gladstone Station Crew - c1967 Left to right - Dave I'Anson APO, Tony Bicker APO, Bernie Howard CPO, Harry "Buster" Burton PO and Tony Coady APO.
The Isle of Man was part of the Liverpool District and during the summer months there was a day trip ferry service for holiday makers from Douglas, IOM, to Dublin and return. Rummage crews went over from Liverpool to the Isle of Man for a week at a time to clear the passengers and their baggage on return from Dublin. The whole operation took about one hour, leaving the lucky rummage crews plenty of spare time for other pastimes . . . . . |
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Huskisson Station Crew - 1963 Left to right - John Moore, Jim McDermott (PO), John O'Keeffe & Denis Page. |
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Station Crew - August 1970 Left to right - Steve Crosby, Ken Cartmell, Alan Blakesley & Jeff Thomson PO going aboard the MV Al Ahmadiah.
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Baggage & Rummage Crew - May 1964 Ray Stafford, on the ladder, with Staff Northcott & Ron MacKay waiting on the River Boarding Launch |
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Mobile Crew - Golf 1 - c1966/1967 Left to right: Mike Foster, Derek Reynolds PO, Sid Harvey & Ray Stanford. |
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1967 Left to right - Brian Sowerby, Jim Fitt, Keith Warren APOs & Ray Gregory PO.
Seizure from 'MV Frigo' a Dutchman from Spain, found suspended in two sacks hanging from beams in the after peak water tank. The vessel was berthed at Kent Wharf - Erith Station & the two owners were prosocuted and received court fines of £50 each - 9 March 1967 |
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Dock Station Crew - 1966 Left to right - Geoff Allard PO, Harry Turner, Keith Warren & Jim Fitt APOs
Unowned seizure from the cargo - mainly Ceylon tea and Burma teak logs - in No. 5 hold of ‘MV Gloucestershire’ from Rangoon via Ceylon with an Indian Crew - 31 October 1966.
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With Tilbury Dock Baggage Crew - 1968 Left to right - Barry Green, Brian Sowerby & Jim Fitt APOs and Dennis Hillier PO.
The seizure, in January 1968, was from a Nigerian National ex Germany and Outward Bound to West Africa. It was found concealed under a veritable mountain of cases of beer - ship's stores loaded in Germany and wrapped in brown paper - in a catering storeroom beer locker. The owner was the Chief Steward - but the Rummage Crew were unable to prove intent as he was not on ship when she arrived in Tilbury Dock. |
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1970 402 lbs of cannabis resin found on a ship in port following a routine search, being packed into the official car by Chris Webb APO. |
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Gordn Webster's Dock Station Crew - c1950s
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Station Crew - 1964 Left to right - Doug Oliver, Ted Grantham & Maurice Whalen APOs. |
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Mobile Crew - 1962 Left to right - Jeff Shutler, John Adams, David Nichols and Bob Cook |
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Mobile Crew - c1970 (Left to right) Phil Wadley, Pete 'Bungee' Alexander APOs & Ray Cole PO on the Isle of Wight.
Blackgang is a village on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight with a 'chine' leading down to the beach. It was a smugglers haunt during the 17th and 18th centurys. Rummage crews were christened 'The Blackgang' by ships crews because they did not wear white covers on their uniform caps in the summer. |
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Station Crew - 1959 Left to right - Eric Davis, Peter Hopkins & Bob Harkness APOs with Trevor Jenkins PO |
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Station Crew - 1960 Ray Cole, Peter Hopkins & Mal Jones APOs on board MS Dragon from Corpus Christi discharging sulphur at Rose Wharf, Kings Dock Swansea.
The photograph was taken by the Captain's daughter with a Polaroid camera - this piece of kit was quite a novelty at the time. |
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