Martin Sanders

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  1. At Sea Years 1961-1970

m.v Suffolk 1/8/1966-9/9/1967

One trip to New Zealand we transported 13 horses. 12 mares and one stallion. A swallow on its way to Africa followed us all the way to Curacao dining on the flies over the Horseboxes.


The Bosun received extra money helping the horse handler cleaning out. The stallion was particularly frisky (all those mares) and required a bar pushed through to partition the box while mucking out. It was still a dodgy job and one day the chippie using a long pole tweaked the Bosun between the legs. The Bosun exited the horsebox very quickly covered in hay and horse droppings to loud cheers.
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