Bank Line

[Captain Kong]

I thought this would be of interest to anyone who sailed with BANK LINE,
It Names the ships, dates, and where from and where to.
I found it many years ago in a copy of Nichols Concise Guide when I was in Fleetwood Nautical Collegein 1975.
You may have to blow it up to read it. there are around 52 Bank boats on the list it gives the positions of where they were on Monday 26 April 1966. It is better when printed in full size.
It is amazing in this day for a British Company to have so many ships.Aso the variety of ports is also amazing.
Left click on the thumbnail, then right clik then left click again and you should be able to read it.

[RoyLomas]

I was on Garrybank at that time (Apprentice and finally as 3rd Mate) and paid off in Hong Kong after 16 months in May 66. Captain Osborne and wife. Phil Nance was an apprentice
Roy Lomas

[Morris Macleod]

Hi Roy,

Been a long time since we sailed on the Southbank. What have you been up to in the past 47 years?
Cheers, Morris

[RoyLomas]

Hi Roy,

Been a long time since we sailed on the Southbank. What have you been up to in the past 47 years?
Cheers, Morris

Left Bank Line in '66 then 4 years in Shell with my wife on board. Retired now after sailing on Efluent Disposal vessels (the quick discriptive word wouldn't post!!) for 26 years. I now meet old Master Mariners in Liverpool every month. What about you?
Regards........Roy

[Charlie Stitt]

Hi Roy and Morris, I was with Weirs for 12 years, 1955 to 1967, first trip as Appy on the old Myrtlebank, last trip as Mate on Forresbank 2, enjoyed the whole experience. Happy Days.
Wishing you all a great healthy New Year
Cheers. Charlie.

[Peter Smith]

Bank Line had 47 ships when I joined in 74 and 12 when i left in 84.

[John Cutts]

I thought this would be of interest to anyone who sailed with BANK LINE,
It Names the ships, dates, and where from and where to.
I found it many years ago in a copy of Nichols Concise Guide when I was in Fleetwood Nautical Collegein 1975.
You may have to blow it up to read it. there are around 52 Bank boats on the list it gives the positions of where they were on Monday 26 April 1966. It is better when printed in full size.
It is amazing in this day for a British Company to have so many ships.Aso the variety of ports is also amazing.
Left click on the thumbnail, then right clik then left click again and you should be able to read it.

Very interesting! Memories come flooding back.
I was on leave after signing off my first ship Avonbank in Hamburg 3/2/66.
She is listed at the top as being in Nauru, a very regular place for Bank Line ships, where they loaded phosphate, which is about all that the island is made of. I never actually went there.
Memories of being left on the foc'sle for 4 hours by the other 2 cadets, as lookout in thick fog as we progressed very slowly up a very frozen River Elbe to Hamburg. One very frozen cadet was relieved when the berthing party arrived on the foc'sle.
My next ship, Nessbank, is in Bromborough. I joined her in Rotterdam,then via London and Fowey, to load china clay, then to New Orleans for general cargo and across to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, then back round the Pacific Islands loading copra and coconut oil for the return trip to Liverpool, Bromborough.
Happy days, but keeping that oil at the right temperature was a bloody nightmare.
Thanks for prompting the memory, Captain Kong.

[Morris Macleod]

Left Bank Line in '66 then 4 years in Shell with my wife on board. Retired now after sailing on Efluent Disposal vessels (the quick discriptive word wouldn't post!!) for 26 years. I now meet old Master Mariners in Liverpool every month. What about you?
Regards........Roy

Hi Roy, After Bank Line I sailed with the Denholm Group leaving there in 82 as master and went in to the offshore industry.I was Offshore Installation Manager on rigs for a number of years then ashore in West Africa, Azerbajan and Vietnam on various projects for an oil company. For the past couple of years working in Norway for the same oil company but offshore on a two on four off rota so semi retired. Will finally swallow the anchor in a couple of months. It has been an interesting journey.
Regards, Morris

[Bruce Sanders]

G'day all

Sailed in Bankline 64 - 68 Pinebank, Forresbank, Nairnbank and Cedarbank

All good memories.

[Alan Ward]

I never sailed Bank Line but used to see the ships all the place.My memory is of a more personal nature,in the early 70`s I was working for Clan Line and has a fairly regular port of call with a young nurse called Johanna in Durban.Arriving on our usual berth I `phoned Johanna and was spoken to unsually coldly,`No she wasn`t up for a drink,and no she didn`t fancy a visit to the ship either`oh well,c`est la vie as we used to say in Liverpool.

A couple of days later I got a `phone call on board and bugger me if it wasn`t Johanna apologising for being so short with me but she`d had a Second Mate from Bank Line staying with her and was I still up for that drink!