Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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 ?