OneGuyFromBarlick

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That is true China. They had a small engine to get them off the dock into open sea. Back in the day they had longboats to pull them off.

Stanley, More years than I care to remember ago. The shipping company I was with did a swap over. I joined a tall ship called the Winston Churchill. The Tall ship company sent their crew to my shipping company. When I arrived on board the Winston Churchill, the First Officer, asked me my rank. He sa...

https://youtu.be/sWjMBSnq2es Opposed piston oil engine Doxford. The theory is that you create more Horse Power with fewer cylinders thereby reducing engine size dimensions. There are of course many downsides to the theory. These engines allowed more cargo capacity, because of their compactness, less...

Reminds me of Nont Sarahs
The panels from the Mauratania were used to furnish the bar.
I think it was the Mauratania.

Stanley, They do if they are well maintained. When they get into port, thats when the work starts. Lube oil purifiers 6 inches thick in residue, same with the intake ports on the scavenges. The fuel oil purifiers are cleaned every day. The strangest thing is that you spend your life maintaining them...

They need to be Stanley. They have to propel thousands of tons of ship and cargo. Once the ships go deep sea, the engine will not stop for weeks.
Except for any emergency maintenance.

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Sulzer Warsillar

Succintly put Stanley.

Stanley, The realty was that the monopoly on shipping was coming to an end. Parts of the commonwealth, which were tied to agreements, where at the time expanding their merchant fleets. India was a classic example. Containerisation, and the new markets made container ships highly profitable. Three da...

In the late sixties Ellerman invested heavily in container ships, in partnership with several partners, blue star etc. They built a total of six ships, Act 1-6.

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Ellerman lines always named their ships after cities. Hence City Boats.
Benares is a city in India, known as the Holy city of the Ganges.
Sir John Reeves Ellerman, purchased George Smith and Co. City Line. Hence Ellerman City Line.

Its Eighty years since A German U boat torpedoed and sank the Ellerman Lines City of Banares, carrying child evacuees from the UK to Canada and the USA.

Poor guys. Gallipoli. What a fiasco.

It wasnt the damage to the PS Waverley.
You just cant go about injuring fare paying passengers.

I also read about the PS Waverley hitting the pier at brodick.
That is one Ships Master who will not be in command of a vessel for a while.

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Photos of TSS duke of Lancaster,

Tizer, I never sailed in or out of Preston, but I have been there a few times, I think the last time I was there was, to board, the IOMSPCO ship Manxman, Which had been converted to a nightclub. When I left I was mortified to see the condition she was in, having sailed on her to the I.O.M as a passe...

Elder Dempster where renowned, for their cargo passenger ships. Mainly on the African west coast trade. Even Ellerman's big four, Cities of York, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Exeter. Where passenger cargo ships. Tilbury to Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth. Sir John Reeves Ellerman Jr. Retired to South A...

Doesn't look well maintained either.

Tizer,
They certainly did. Passenger fares where a lot cheaper than ocean going cruise liners.
Though the officers and crew did'nt accept them to well. Very needy, required a lot of attention.

Weirdest thing is that when there was a swell on like in the film. It used to rock you to sleep in your bunk.

I only sailed to Canada, around three times in the winter months, and that was enough. The deckhands had their work, cut out for them. Chipping ice off the masts and rigging. Sometimes up to a foot or more thick. I seem to recall loaning out a few engine room ratings to the deck department, to assis...

Stanley,
Do you see any resemblance to the old Thames Lighters, or the commercial canal barges of days gone by?
By the way. All the bulkers on the great lakes get laid up from October to January nowadays.