Schooner Malcolm Miller

CharlieChan said:
Hello Eas.
I have the most up to date contact list of schooner folk. It fell upon me to organise last year's reunion in Portsmouth last September.
There is a facebookpage with lots of old photos.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/30680956784/
my email address is wingninchan@yahoo.com. If can you send me any photos, then I will be very happy to post them on facebook, where the many old schooner folk will be overjoyed with gossip.
And thanks for rescuing her.
If you want to know anything about the hidden moldy bits of the ship, then I am always in contact with nearly all the old bosuns, engineers, chief officers, captains,and hard core old volunteers. We have, together, over hundreds of thousands of days living and working on the Miller and the Churchill. In my youth, I personally spent over 400 days on both, especially when I should have been at university.
I sincerely hope you get to read this post
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Hello there - just found this post. WONDERFUL, and good luck to the restorer.
If you (CC) are in touch with the olds, please remember me to Jim the Bosun. He was on the Churchill for my first cruise Nov '68, and then the Miller both cruises (March & October) '69
He may remember our rather epic spell on the bowsprit off Porthcurno, stowing a fly-away jib. We were both drenched from the bowsprit digging into the Atlantic rollers.
And he may also remember me TWICE letting slip the Main Gaff Halyard (during his lunch break) He was NOT happy. "Stupid Watch Leader" would have been his polite reaction!
I have some photos of him - verry rare achievement!
I'd like to keep in touch with the crews of old, is there a website?

Many thanks,
Robert Wilson
 
I crewed on her in March/April 1991, from Falmouth to Roscoff (but not, it was too rough to enter the harbour), back up to Cork (again, too rough to enter), over to Milford (got in there, even rougher but in a different way... a girl followed me into the gents and said her and her mate would 'do' all 30 odd of us for a tenner each!!). From there to Douglas, then onto Oban, in sleet showers.
Amazing fun!
 
Hello Robert
There is a page on facebook
search for Malcolm Miller and Winston Churchill.
We have a reunion in October 2013
Best Regards

Charlie Chan
 
CharlieChan said:
THe Malcolm Miller will be back in the water by June 2104
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I'm guessing Charlie Chan meant June 2014...which is tomorrow.

I never got to grips with the Facebook following for this vessel...

...does anyone know if indeed she's on the point of sailing again?
 
Hello!

My apologies for reviving a quiet topic, but I feel I must do this as the subject is of a rather personal matter and provides a little trivia on the Malcolm Miller a few of you I hope may find interesting.

My father often sailed on the Miller, and throughout my life has frequently spoken of her with great admiration. In July of 1983, me elder sister was Christened on the Malcolm Miller, and shortly after her name was engraved on the ship's bell. Below are some photographs from my sister Jenny's Christening, currently held in a frame atop the stairs at home.

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I was not born for another two years so naturally, I have no memory of this event as I did not yet exist. However, I have heard about this occasion many a time and know the details very well. So here we are thirty-one years later, and my sister Jenny is soon to be wed. After much searching, I have found my way to this forum and was quite pleased to see this thread. Jenny's wedding is soon, and as her little brother I feel I should do the right thing and help make her wedding day that extra bit special, also to make up for the countless times I have carried out my other duties of being a little brother, that is to see, be the irritating juvenile man I am to the fullest for the sake of good humour and sibling rivalry, but in August on her wedding day such actions will be kept at bay and I'll do my best to behave and be a good little brother. I am posting here because it is so far the best I have managed to find someone who is in contact with the current owner/s of the Malcolm Miller, and I have a request,

I would very much like to borrow the ship's bell for a few days, the same bell that bears my Sister's name. It may seem an odd request, but I feel it would be appropriate to have the bell present for her wedding. I understand it is a tremendous request for a stranger to make, and I would happily pay in full for insured postage and shipping. Not only would this be a deeply significant gesture just to have the Bell present for Jenny's wedding, but it would also be fantastic for my Father and Mother to once again see the Bell.

I thankyou for taking the time to read this post and with great anticipation await a reply. In the mean time if anyone would like more detail concerning my sister's Christening, or just a few tales from the Malcolm Miller, I can request my Father to spend some time telling you all a tale or two, I can assure you he has many and can speak with great fondness o his days aboard the Malcolm Miller.
 
I posted that with a dram of whisky in my hand and the thought this might be a shot so long I'd never hear anything. What a wonderful result! CharlieChan I have sent you an e-mail in reply to your PM. Romeo, thankyou for your suggestion, I'll make contact with tallships.org and see where that takes me.
 
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