The Mariners Articles At Seadolby.Com

Merchant Navy seafarers, those who remain at sea for longer than their first trip never really talk about the times away from home and loved ones! From the last tears at the airport departure terminal to the hugs and laughter a few months later the mariners trip is brushed-off through a few muted sentences and off-the-cuff water-borne occurrences that say very little!

The life that goes down, the wife in every port, the travel and cultures crossed? On a deeper note; how do a bunch of men survive for weeks on end in a steel can? Sailors are a tough breed, called mercenaries in the Philippines, unknown and unrecognized in the UK they lead exciting and often difficult lifestyles! Many are married to nurses, many more have setup shop in Thailand or Brazil after seeing the light and many more still just drink their lives away on a variety of cheap spirits, a loose woman, name unknown, not far away!

One thing though, these Captains and Chief Engineers, the Oilers and the Serangs, whether it is of rough weather and survival, of playing cricket on the beach in the last outback of Papua New Guinea or of breaking ice in Northern Russia and jumping planes in Angola with a group of desperate freedom fighters, they all have a story to tell but rarely do the words flow!

Here within these pages are the Mariners Articles! A few select stories and tales of marine adventure and travel, across oceans and though endless airports, memories of a career at sea are written down for all to read - some of them anyway!