Hornbeam wrote:G.M. Taximan, your finding of the tins of peas does not surprise me they were a strange Crew on her and as I indicated earlier very much the English version of 'Para Handy'. Were you with little Sammy and his Trench Coat which when he took it of apparently stood up on its own and were you at the TCC when the smuggling incident occurred? As you are aware the John H moored over there did you do night watchman on her?
Always grateful to a decent Night Watchman who had steam up and all I had to do was crack open the boiler Main stops and let everything warm through whilst having a quick breakfast!
When you say 'Little Sammy' do you mean the guy who looked after the buoys & Moorings stored at the head of the graving dock? If so, I have had many a mug of tea in his cabin but I don't remember his trench coat.
I started working on the river late in the summer of 1964 so I was not there when the 'Amos' was arrested, but the incident was often talked about. I never had a watch on her so never had to raise steam in her although that was part of my duties when watching on No 10 Dredger.