Where is the “Chapman Anchorage” ???

   Robbie Keen (Carlisle, England) emails:

 I see in the entry for BENWYVIS that she

was in “Chapman Anchorage.”   Where is

Chapman Anchorage and what would she

be doing there ???

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Glasgow shipping line Maclay and Mcintyre and ship pictures of DOMIRA 2 and LYNFIELD.

   A reader asks for any information on Glasgow shipping line Maclay and Mcintyre and ship pictures of DOMIRA 2 and LYNFIELD.

   Can anyone help ?

What sailing ship is this today beside the Riverside Museum, Glasgow ?????

CLYDELINK PASSENGER FERRY on her Riverside Museum service across the River to Govan Pontoon

New ship H.M.S. TAMAR fitting-out in No, 1 Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

All images courtesy of Ally Mackenzie (Facebook profile is Ally Mackenzie)

Ally Mackenzie writes :

   HMS Tamar is a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel of the

Royal Navy. Named after the River Tamar in England, this is the

seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Tamar. She is the fourth

Batch 2 River-class vessel to be built and was formally commissioned

on 4 June 2020. 

   I have enclosed some photos when she was at the No. 1 Elderslie

Dry Dock, Glasgow being fitted out.  Perhaps most interestingly, she’s

the ‘greenest’ ship in the Royal Navy  –  fitted with ‘catalytic converters’

which reduce nitrogen-based emissions from her engine exhausts by

up to 95 per cent.

   HMS Tamar was laid down on 8th December 2016, launched on

the 10th October 2018 and fully commissioned 4th June 2020.

Photo one shows the bow of Tamar in the Elderslie Dry Docks. 

Photo two and three shows Tamar port side.

   I hope you like them.

CLAN FRASER engine trial and a rope across King George V Dock, Glasgow

4 November 2019 

Jim McGoogan e-mails :

   Your article of CLAN FRASER of 8^th January 1964 says a rope

was put across King George V Dock, Glasgow while the ship was

making an engine trial.

   Why put a rope across the dock and where would the rope

be attached to the ship and also attached to the dock ?

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Alfred Holt's CENTAUR at UK in 1960's before coming to Singapore and Australia

E-mail from J.W. (Darwin, Australia)

6 November 2019 

Have you any details about Blue Funnel CENTAUR in 1960’s before leaving UK and coming to Singapore and Australia ?

Douglas replies :

I’ll put something in tomorrow about CENTAUR leaving Glasgow.

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Old Mississippi – type passenger steamer in Sydney (Australia)

Old Mississippi – type passenger steamer in Sydney (Australia)

Jim Middleton (London) e-mails

29 December 2019 

The BBC news today showed the wild fires at Sydney and

the smoke at Sydney Harbour.

   I was surprised to see in the news report, in the

background, an old Mississippi type passenger steamer,

with two tall abreast funnels (stacks) passing under

the Harbour Bridge.

   Can anyone give details of this vessel and its route

and timetable ?

   Thanks, JM.

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Stewardesses and Nurse on Burns & Lairds IRISH COAST in 1966

Stewardesses and Nurse on Burns & Lairds IRISH COAST in 1966

 29 December 2019

MaryD emails

Does anyone remember the Stewardesses (usually student

school-teachers who were working during the summer

holidays) and the Nurse who worked on Burns & Lairds

  IRISH COAST in 1966.

Mary D.

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Maclay and McIntyre of Glasgow ships DOMIRA and KASSANGA and LYNFIELD of Stockton on Tees

Was this the Lyle Shipping's CAPE NELSON last visit to Glasgow ?

e-mail from T.J. of Glasgow.

   I notice from your entry for CAPE NELSON that she left Glasgow for Palermo (Sicily) and Tokyo (Japan) in

September 1959, and that she was sold in 1959 to Hong Kong buyers.

   I suspect that this sailing was probably her last visit to Glasgow and UK.

   Can anyone confirm that this was her final visit to Glasgow ?

British India's BULIMBA or BAMORA at Colombo around 1966

30 January 2020.

 e-mail from “Jim the engine” of Morecambe (England)

 I was interested in reading the P & O / British India entry.

   In all my time at sea I never saw any P & O cargo ships, and

only once, around 1966, when in Colombo on Brocklebank’s

MAGDAPUR or MANGLA, saw one of the small British India

ships, possibly BULIMBA, BAMORA or the like, berthing at

Colombo.

   The general opinion was they worked on the Australian

coast, and since she was maybe only 400 feet long we

thought would be too small for regular trips to Colombo.

   But out East there seemed to be the blue hulled

Maersk ships everywhere you went.

   Can someone tell where the BULIMBA and the

sisters actually worked ?