What does this mean?

[vic mcclymont]

Sorry louis, it means to hot, to think straight and work.

[Charlie Hannah]

No Charlie,
If my memory serves me right she went down in the River Hoogley after swinging onto her own anchor. She had a sister ship called the Martand.
Kevin

Kevin if you you go on Google and put SS Malakand in you will see the story of how she was bombed.below is just a part of this tragic happening.read full story on the web.


On the worst night of the Blitz on Liverpool, 3rd May 1941, SS Malakand, loaded with a thousand tons of munitions, caught fire, blew up and obliterated the Huskisson Dock. It is thought that a drifting barrage balloon landed on the deck and burst into flames.
Pieces of the ship were blasted over two miles away causing even further damage to the Overhead Railway. Half the docks were temporarily put out of action as a result of the destruction caused by the blast. Thousands of dock workers, troops and volunteers were involved in the clear up. Miraculously, considering the size of the blast, only four people were killed.

[Captain Kong]

There were at least 3 Malakands, see `Old Ships site photos`, from an old coal burner to a Fort type vessel to a bulk carrier.
Cheers
Brian.

[Kevin Mercer]

Thanks for the info lads, I will duly take a chota decko.

Kevin

[Charlie Hannah]

SS Malakand has been the name of at least two ships, both of the Brocklebank shipping line, named after the Malakand area of the Indian sub-continent.
One SS Malakand was a 7,000-ton cargo liner built by Harland & Wolff in 1905. She was used on a regular service between Liverpool and Calcutta but was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1917.
The second was another cargo liner built in 1919. It was in war service loaded with munitions in the Huskisson Dock, Liverpool when it was set alight on 3 May 1941 as part of the "Liverpool Blitz". Although the eventual explosion is often attributed to a burning barrage balloon, this fire was put out. However flames from dock sheds that had been bombed spread to the Malakand, and the fire services could not contain the fire. A few hours after raid had ended, the ship exploded, destroying the entire Huskisson No. 2 dock and killing four people. It took seventy-four hours for the fire to burn out.[1]