ss BENLOYAL( 1) in 1951.
Just a correction to make re the vessel. The vessel depicted in ShippingToday and Yesterday (Post # 13) refers to BENLOYAL (2),which was only completed in 1959.
Cadet Gray met his untimely death in 1951 and was therefore serving on BENLOYAL (1),which was the ex Empire Swordsman built 1944, and later owned by Ben Line for just one year (1950/1,before becoming the Loch Ranza and later the Tertric in 1960.