Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

July 1963 saw a drowning in the swimming pool of Elder Dempster’s ACCRA nearing Freetown

July 1963 saw a drowning in the swimming pool of Elder Dempster’s ACCRA 

Margaret Taylor sends an e-mail

18 April 2019 @ 1856
 

Many moons ago - July of 1963 - my husband and I and two daughters

travelled from Liverpool to Lagos on Elder Dempster Line`s ACCRA.

 During the voyage - the day before arriving at Freetown, if I remember

rightly, a passenger returning home to Nigeria was tragically drowned

during an event in the ship`s swimming pool.

 My husband, a doctor, was going to Nigeria to work at

University College Hospital, Ibadan. He spent hours on deck trying to

save the victim`s life.
It is an event which has been in my memory for 55 years - a

rare and unexpected tragedy for an historic and well-known

shipping line. 

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