Bank Line

[Rod Nissen]

I'm sure I also remember her in the late 70's, though by then she had come up in the world, had been promoted to Sister and would only associate with Bank Line engineers

[Cliff Cocker]

to Roy Lomas,
On the Thames they were known as the Bovril Boats, when I was with Westminster dredging we always tried to beat them to the dumping grounds. The smell they left after dumping (unintentional pun) was indescribable
Cliff Cocker

[Brenda Shackleton]

I have 2 photographs of the 4-masted barque, Thistlebank, that my grandfather sailed on. The first she is fully rigged and the second she is at anchor in Puget Sound ( near Vancouver ) Wish I had a crew list.

He also sailed on the 'Glenclover' but I have never been able to find anything about her. Any ideas?
Regards
Bren Sh.

[James R Henderson]

Hi there, i joined the Garrybank as 3rd Mate in Hong Kong in May 1966,

[John Arton]

Any ex. Bank Line fellas remember a 2nd Mate from North Shields called Ken Duff. I did 2nd Mates with him in Shields in 71/72 and saw him later in 78 when he was standing by Bank Lines new buildings in Sunderland and had a couple of really heavy nights on the ale in North and South Shields.
He served his time with Shell Tankers and then joined Bank Line to see the world, as he said.
Last I saw of him he had married an Australian girl he had met and they had a baby boy and were living back in the North East.
I believe when Bank Line started going to the wall they emigrated to Australia where I think he became a Lecturer in a nautical college in Tasmania.
rgds
JA

[James R Henderson]

Hello, you will not remember me, as i can not remember you either, but i relived you as 3rd Mate on the Garrybank as that is when i joined her in Hong Kong in May 1966 and spent 15 months on her on the Oriental African run 3 round trips