A Legacy of Stories

A gift from generation to generation - may the stories of our past, inspire our present and enrich our future.

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Thursday, 28 January 2021

👨‍🎓Shoring up for a life at sea

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From Biswajit Basu: My story about joining Marine Engineering College (DMET) went like this. I had appeared for 2 entrance exams and intervi...

🪝Married to Shipping and through Shipping!

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From Biswajit Basu: When I was in school, every Pujo, Sujit Bagchi, a neighbour's son would come home and sometimes dress up in unifor...

🚢 Embarking on a Shipping Career

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Blogger Note: When I was a child, I called him Mama Ship! So, where did his journey begin? From Biswajit Basu: I cannot remember my first s...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021

🧭 What’s in a name?

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From Biswajit Basu: An unusual story was once related to me by Mr Henk Pols, one of our Directors who was a ship's officer in the Dutch...

⛴ Scandinavian Sojourn

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From Monisha Choudhury: From my earliest sea voyages, I remember Gibralter and seeing people so close to us on land. I had the same experien...

⚓️ The First Voyage Back Home

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Companion post to  My First Sea Voyage It was in the year 1957, that the Basu family travelled back home to India after two years in UK. Th...
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Monday, 25 January 2021

🛳 My First Sea Voyage

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  From Biswajit Basu: MY FIRST SEA VOYAGE  I can still remember. It was July 1955 on a hot, sunny and humid afternoon. I was at the Ballard ...
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