You are probably right about it being the Winchester Castle.Originally Posted by M6AJJ
They were both four funnel ships, and after the war were re engined and the funnels reduced to two and cut down, the Winchester`s funnels were made shorter than the Aundel`s. See photos.
From the Old Ship Photos Site with thanks.
Winchester Castle. Arundel Castle, Arundel Castle , Winchester Castle.
Here are some paintings and are all original oil paintings, on board `Queen Mary 2.` I dont remember the artists names.
`Queen Elizabeth` with the `Britannic` astern leaving New York,` Queen Elizabeth 2`overtaking the` Britannia` of 1840, Cunards first mail ship. `Mauretania` leaving Liverpool with the `Lusitania` along side the Stage. `Franconia`inward bound at New York, I sailed on her as Quartermaster in the summer of 1956 `.Mauretania` and then the` Caronia` known as the Green Godess specialy built for world cruising.
I saw her in 1974 wrecked on the Island of Guam. She was under tow to Taiwan for scrapping when the tugs cast her adrift in the Pacific to go into Guam for repairs, The Caronia an empty ship decided to follow the tugs and arrived alone off the entrance of Apra Harbour and in a heavy swell the fore part of the ship was lifted onto the break water and broke in two across the fore part of the bridge, staying upright and high and dry ashore, the other two thirds of the ship crashed back into the entrance and broke in half again blocking the entrance. The US Navy base there had to blow her up and scrap her under water. Apra was an important Navy base for the Viet Nam War and used for the evacuation in April 1975..
This one is the one I still could not afford if I won all the lotteries.
It is Golfer Greg Norman`s yacht. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
It is `Aussie Rules`got every thing, it costs 80 million pounds. He has his own ship yard and builds these for the Liverpool Market.
When I was at school I was told not to play around, This guy plays a round and makes all that money. Should have been a golfer.
Remember those misty summer mornings when you were heading down the Channel, White Cliffs to starboard and and an ocean going yacht to port. You were on your way to where the flying fish played and albatrosses kept you cpmpany. Once through the Mad and down the Red Sea, you would be sail beneath Capricorn and across the balmy oceans.
William Birchalls watercolour evokes such strong memories. I can almost feel the throb of her engines and the crush of her screw.
Doubtles there are some who will opine her name,for me she is just a memory,
BrianD
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Now this photo is one I found a while ago on a site I have forgotten whose it was or where, but thanks to the owner of it. It brings back memories of boat drill in the Blue Funnel Line, it shows Blueys `ADRASTUS`, probably in the Indian Ocean.
When I was in Blu Flu we always had our realistic boat drill out there. The life boat would be lowered and taken away. The ship would disapear over the horizon and then having taken a Sparky with us we would wind the handle on the jenny and Sparky would transmit the may day.and the ship`s Sparky would do a DF and return to find the boat.
This continued until the early 60s when a squal came down and they couldnt find the lifeboat in the storm.This kind of boat drill was finished then.
Brian D should recognise this.
I remember it vividly Brian, the master of the Antenor,.Captain Mcdavid, insisted on giving no warning prior to a life boat drill,no matter what you were doing ,be it up a mast or down a hatch ,when you heard that siren you had to get to your station pronto.
We could get a boat into the water within 2 minutes of hearing the siren. We took great pride in what we did and I am sure it gave the passengers peace of mind when they saw the speed with which we acted. Great days,especially if you were in somewhere calm and the sun was shining,like it is in this pic,thanks for that Brian,
BrianD
Nice memories guys.
On Tuesday 26 January was the 57th anniversary of the Empress of Canada, a Canadian Pacific liner. burning and then capsizing in Gladstone Dock.
She had one sister left after the war, the Empress of France, I sailed on her a few times.
Wiki: RMS Empress of Canada (1928)
For other ships of the same name, see Empress of Canada.
SS Duchess of Richmond was an ocean liner built in 1928 for Canadian Pacific Steamships by John Brown & Co. at Glasgow, Scotland. In 1947 she was renamed SS Empress of Canada. The ship was distinguished by the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) prefix in front of her name while in commercial service with Canadian Pacific
Empress of Canada
Career
Name: 1928-1947: SS Duchess of Richmond
1947-1953: RMS Empress of Canada
Namesake: Duchess of Richmond
Operator: Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd
Route: Canada to UK
Builder: John Brown & Co., Glasgow
Yard number: 523 [1]
Launched: 18 June 1928
Maiden voyage: 15 March 1929
Refit: 1946/1947
Fate: Caught fire and capsized on 25 January 1953
Scrapped in La Spezia in 1954
General characteristics
Type: Passenger liner
Troopship during Second World War
Tonnage: 20,022
Length: 601 ft (183 m)
Beam: 75 ft 3 in (22.94 m)
Propulsion: Steam turbines Twin propellers[1]
Speed: 18 knots
Capacity: As built 580 cabin, 480 tourist and 510 3rd class passengers
Photos from the Duncan Haws site, with thanks.
Here is the `old` `Queen Mary` at Long Beach, California. I have stayed on her several times and is well worth a visit. What are you saving up for at your age???
They have just sent me an email, advertising $89 US, for a night in a First Class Stateroom.There is a shuttle bus that runs from LA Airport for around 5-10 $.
The ship is in wonderful condition, it has been there for many years longer than she was at sea with Cunard.
Plenty of entertainment on board, superb Restaurants, and the Observation Bar is realy good with a band and dancing till the early hours.
I never sailed on her when she was Cunard, I had a chance to never did. In New York in the fifties we used to go on board when we were on the Cunard ships on Pier 92 and she was on Pier 91, Our crew bar, the Pig, closed at 8pm when alongside and the crew bar, pig, on Queen Mary closed at 10pm, so we ran down our gangway through the shed and up the gangway onto B deck and into their bar until 10 pm and then across the road to the Market Diner
Where the crew bar and accomodation was, on B Deck, is now a maritime museum
Crew bar prices then were an old 8 pence for one pint of Wrexham Lager.
Here are a few photos from their email.
Nice one Captain.
Here is a photo of SS HATASU a typical tramp ship owned by H E Moss & Co of Liverpool, She was built in 1917 and then while sailing independently from Halifax N.S. she was torpedoed by the German submarine U431, 600 miles east of Cape Race in the North Atlantic. with all hands on 2nd of October 1941
On board and killed that day was a young 15 year old deck boy, Billy Dempster who lived at the top of the next street to me in Bolton at No. 15 Settle Street. One of many young lads, 14, 15, 16, years of age whose lives were lost in WW2, when today they still go to school and are considered as children.
U431 was sunk with all hands, 52 men, on 21 October 1943 off the North African coast by a RAF Wellington.
Nice one Captain.
Now for all you old Hong Kong hands of Blue Funnel here are some photos of........
No.1.
the famous Star Ferry from Kowloon side to Victoria, never changed and still very old, you may have travelled on this one. photo taken in March 2008.
No.2
Floating Restaurant, Asias World City
No.3.
The famous clock tower is still there at the Star Ferry terminal
it is just over 50 years since I was in Hong Kong, I'd love to go back but the doc has warned me off long flights. I settle for a visit to Liverpools Chinatown instead,
BrianD
I've been very remiss in poting on the Gallery lately and i thought i might catch up with showing some ships from the early says of Britains rise to dominance of the world cargo trade.
1/ The Denbighshire ,built in Sunderland in1899 for Shire Line ,she is a barquentine rigged steamship and the picture was painted by the Chinese collective of artists in Hong Kong.
2/ The Ajax,another barquentine rigged steamer of 1865 ,built for the far eastern trade of Ocean Steam ship Co. of Alfred Holt. This is another painting by the hong kong collective of artists.
3/ Yet another barquentine rigged iron steam screwship of Alfred Holts and sister to the Ajax(yes, I know,why do male named ships get called sisters) a year younger than the Ajax ,these two,together with the Agamemnon led to Holts building a fleet which held domination of the far Eastern traffic for nigh on a hundred years.
4/ The Emily ,a schooner rigged steamship,shown approaching Naples with Vesuvius abeam. Built in1878 by John Readhead of South Shields for robert Harrowing of Whitby,she was sold to Swedish owners and on the 6th of December she was wrecked on passage from Hull yo Norrkoping with a cargo of coal.
The painting is attributed to the Neapolitan artist Antonio de Simone.
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