Ships I have sailed in and board of trade aquaintances
This is really just a test for uploading photos but is my 1st ship as 2nd Engineer. The ship is along side in New Plymouth. I have taken it off the Blue Star Web Site (I hope the owner does not mind?)...
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Rod and Mike, Good day from the cold south, Taranaki in the grip of winter but it is the shortest day so all down hill from here and we do have "global warming to help us keep from freezing don't we?...
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Good stuff David! I will try to give a reply some time in the next couple of days. I am off to exotic Aberdeen in the morning and on to London on Tuesday. There is a large contract in the air so I...
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Hi David, The mate on the Strathaddie was very lucky to be rescued by the Qatar Coast Guard helicopter. I remember being on a Kemp Geophysical shallow water seismic vessel in Galveston Bay, Texas,...
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Hi all, Seem to be having trouble with the insert buttons? Having to copy and paste from the album page? Anyway if this works the photo is of the old Chakdina (Strathlairg) by the time I joined. The...
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It's easy to imagine Pop Gun Pete's reaction to seeing the Chakdina/Strathlairg upon his arrival in Auckland! What are the cement boxes for? Sailing through the gulf with no A/C must have been a...
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Rod, Yes poor old Pop Gun he must have been gutted to think he had to sign on for another 6months! He was so named because we would save the lamps up that had blown around the ship, old 60watt DC...
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Dave, Thanks for the information on the cement boxes. Pop Gun certainly did get off lightly in Dubai. Was it at the duty free port of Jebel Ali? If so I have been there a few times. Talking of...
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Originally built for NZSCo. as the Middlesex one of four similar ships, she was sold to BI and renamed the Jelunga. By the time I joined she was part of P&O GCD and renamed the Strathleven. She...
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Dave, "The Stbd engine was Metric and the Port Imperial, hence we carried two sets of all tools, spanners, threading tools etc and you had to be careful to remember which engine you were working on."...
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Rod, Great photo of the Ark, as I said in a previous post my Dad was on the Ark during the 60's pre Phantom era. You are right about the nightmare metric/imperial thing good job I had been brought up...
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Hi Rod, I was interested to note that your first ship in the RN was HMS Diamond. When was that? I was on a one year commission in the Med in 1955, or was it 54, on a sister ship HMS Daring....
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Hi Brian, I was on the Diamond from January 64 until March 65. A few years after your time on the Daring. You will no doubt remember the experience of salvos from her three twin 4" guns. Talk about a...
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Remember the Men of the Merchant Navy, the 3rd of September has been set aside as their day, in UK and other countries I fear New Zealand has yet to follow. We did have a parade a couple of years back...
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Hi David, The contribution and sacrifice of the merchant navy during WWII deserves our greatest respect. I remember my father, who served on the Russian Convoys, telling me how brave the men of the...
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Rod, Hope you enjoyed the Rum! Well said about the Russian Convoys, my Father would doubtless agree, he was on the Malta Convoys and they also took a hammering, as did all the MN including my old...
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The Andalucia Star, laid up at Barry Docks South Wales, the docks were known as the the Blue Star Car Park at this time, the South African trade embargo was on at the time and we had no fruit...
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Hi David, I haven't replied for several weeks due to a heavy workload & I'm off to Houston this week for a convention. As you say, the Halifax had a rather unfortunate accident when entering the...
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Rod, I have been offshore again! hence no reply. To answer your questions. Firstly I must correct my statement the much loved Doxford was not fitted to the Halifax I have just checked and found she...
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HORTEN-DOXFORD, Type: 67LB6, Stroke 2320 mm, 6000 HP, 115 revs/min.Kind RegardsALFONS
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Fra " LÆREBOK OM SKIPSMOTORER" av Amund Karner 4. utgave (1956) Doxford motorer https://www.dropbox.com/s/afig9ow55mbmxdr/DOXFORD%20MOTORER.pdf Regards Alfons
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