THE M.V. OBUASI – ANECDOTES

Captain John D Woodend has kindly provided a most entertaining article about his time as an apprentice on Obuasi, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

Graham Smith has written a very amusing account about his time as an apprentice on Obuasi between January 1960 and January 1961, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

Norman Powell has written three very amusing anecdotes about his time as an apprentice on Obuasi. In the first, he questions whether or not he and his fellow apprentices really were ruffians, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

Norman’s second anecdote concerns an incident in Lagos involving HMS Ceylon, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

In his third anecdote, Norman remembers Christmas on board Obuasi, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

Norman Richardson was an apprentice on Obuasi during her first two voyages as a cadet training ship. He has kindly written an article in which he recalls some of his memories of that time, and it is available for download as a pdf here.

Richard Coyne has written a series of interesting and often very amusing tales about his time as an apprentice on Obuasi, and they are available for download as a pdf here.

Any anecdotes that you may have of Obuasi would be most gratefully received.

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