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Oriental Endeavour by Dave Creamer

By Dave Creamer

A story of 2 tugboats brimming with event, secret, and intrigue.

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A story of 2 tugboats brimming with experience, mishap and intrigue an extraordinary and true-life seafaring experience tale with a difference! Read more...

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Having made the trip on one prior occasion to bunker essential fuel when none had been available to them in Buchanan, there were some landmarks they remembered that could be identified on the chart. They had no sextants or navigational books with which to calculate their position, only the knowledge that, by sailing east and following the coastline, they would eventually arrive at the lagoon entrance marking the channel into the port of Abidjan. Shwe and Maung had each spent nearly fifty-five hours continuously on their bridges, hand steering the two boats along the West African coast, assisted only occasionally by the two chief engineers.

The dying plants were taken from the mess and out onto the main deck where they were given the water they so desperately needed. The fading foliage, the tins, and quite probably a very large number of little ants, were quietly dropped over the side into the river. The weight of the soil in the tins ensured they sank quickly and without trace. The current made it unlikely that there would be any survivors. Back in the messroom, the plants’ timely removal caused a great deal of confusion and bewilderment within the ant colony, so much so that the two-way traffic up and down the bulkhead panel instantly became omni-directional as they all scarpered hurriedly and haphazardly towards the safety of the Formica deckhead above.

2 in Buchanan. 24 Four Years on – June 2003 My visit four years previously, when the boat had been named Eden, had given me the briefest of insights into what might have been expected. I was very curious to know if my initial fears had been overly pessimistic, or whether conditions had improved with the passing of time. Shwe, the captain, had been in Liberia for an incredible two years and eight months. He is a short man with a wiry and typically slim oriental build, and a thin, weather-seasoned face etched with deep lines across his brow and cheeks that give him a friendly and permanently warm expression.

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