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Offline daval57

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Can anybody read this?
« on: Tuesday 04 December 07 00:10 GMT (UK) »
Help required with words after seaman please.
Do you reckon it's the name of a place or something else?

 
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FORREST (Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire)
ROONEY (Co Down, Co Antrim) 
BORTHWICK, FORTUNE, BARKER, SIVES (Lothians)
ANDERSON (Moray, Caithness)

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Re: Can anybody read this?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 December 07 00:15 GMT (UK) »
Looks like "Mercht. Serv." to me Dave - i.e. Merchant Service.

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Re: Can anybody read this?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 December 07 00:21 GMT (UK) »
So obvious now.  Brackets threw me.  Thanks Prue.
Dave
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FORREST (Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire)
ROONEY (Co Down, Co Antrim) 
BORTHWICK, FORTUNE, BARKER, SIVES (Lothians)
ANDERSON (Moray, Caithness)
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