Clan Urquhart 1942 to 1965
Clan Urquhart was built in 1942 for the Med during the war. She was my 1st ship. Straight from pre sea school at Glasgow to join her in Hull in 1963. I have photos of the starboard LP cylinder when it jammed on a broken junk ring and bent the con-rod. We compounded it south of Dakar then loaded in Capetown. Back in Europe we took it to Blackwater estuary to mothball while Wallsend slipway cast a new cylinder. It sailed to Formosa (Taiwan) for scrap.The fourth engineer that took over from me to sail East fell in the crankpit while warming the engines through with the turning gear and died. I have been looking for photos of Clan Urquhart for a long time. Anybody got any? Ken