ORSOVA scheduled to arrive at Southampton with passengers from Singapore

1973 advert for John Henderson ship chandlers in Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)

1973 advert for J. L. Gandara y Cia. Sa. ship stores in Spain

Ben Line general cargo ship BENCRUACHAN seriously damaged by a huge wave near Durban

From the Ben Line company magazine “Ben Bulletin” of December 1980

1973-1978 Voyage Diary of Ben Line's general cargo ship BENLAWERS

1973 leaflet for Clyde (Scotland) cruising on excursion vessel GLEN SANNOX (1957-1989)

Ben Line's BENALDER due to arrive at Hong Kong and carrying a 1925-vintage motor car

Courtesy of University of Glasgow Archives & Special

Collections Ben Line Collection UGC199/8/8/7

GLEN SANNOX leaves Gourock on an afternoon cruise around Isle of Bute (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)

Two girl stowaways found on U.S.S. HUNLEY on passage from Australia to Pearl Harbor

After a 1973 port call in Sydney, en route to Pearl Harbor, two teenage girls from New Zealand were found hiding out in one of the Hunley's missile crane control cabs, when a sailor was spotted carrying food up the ladder to the crane. Hunley was diverted to Brisbane to offload the stowaways, and the "helpful" sailors were disciplined

SHEAF ROYAL (1972-1978 of The Sheaf Navigation Company Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, England)

GLEN SANNOX leaves Gourock on an afternoon cruise around Isle of Bute (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)

GLEN SANNOX leaves Gourock on an afternoon cruise around Isle of Bute (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)

Plockton, a town on Loch Carron in the West Highlands of Scotland

Contributed by John Ferguson

SHEAF ROYAL of Sheaf Navigation Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

GLEN SANNOX leaves Gourock on an afternoon cruise around Isle of Bute (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)