worst place to moor a ship

[Tony Morcom]

Cheeky

[cappy]

chittagong in the rainy season
cappy

[j.sabourn]

In the reverse option, the best place to moor a ship, would be Smiths Drydock North Shields. Short walking distance to 3 pubs including the Jungle. John Sabourn.

[happy daze john in oz]

Don't know about the worst place to moor but I always found the best place was in the lee of Bum Island

It may well depend on the bum owner as to where is the best palce to moor.

[Ivan Cloherty]

John, I have always navigated to small islands, mostly with lush vegetation and firm twin peaks to the North of my anchorage

[Arthur John Harvey]

R235941 Hi Collin; My worst place was back in 1943 when we moored at Calcutta but on the river berth; having to slip the anchors and use the cable plus shipping some anchor cable onto a barge and the proceeding to use that cable for the after mooring; almost a full days work. The river Hooghly is renowned for the bore. Arthur

[Peter Trodden]

chittagong in the rainy season
cappy

Chittagong in any season.
ttfn Peter.

[Captain Kong]

I once saw a Clan boat high and Dry in Chitagong after a cyclone. dont know if they got it back in the water or not.
Brian.

[Gulliver]

It was the CLAN ALPINE,Brian.

She was too far inland to be salvaged and was cut up in situ.

My various notes about her follow:-


She was actually on her last trip to be scrapped, but the cyclone got her before Japan did.


Launched as Empire Barrie 7168 424 57 24 1942
1942 MOWT managed by Allan, Black & Co (Albyn Line), Sunderland.
1944 MOWT managed by Clan Line Ltd, Glasgow
1945 CLAN ALPINE, Clan Line Ltd.
1957 UMVOTI, Bullard, King & Co.Ltd, London
1959 CLAN ALPINE, Clan Line Ltd.
31.10.60 Ashore in cyclone near Chittagong, total loss.
　
　
(wrecked 11nm NNW Chittagong River entry 31.10.60 [Glasgow-Chittagong, general])
Glasgow,Liverpool (dep.Sept.16^th 1960 via Assab,Djibouti,Aden,Bombay,Cochin,Tuticorin,then Chittagong.)Intention was to deliver her to breakers in Onomichi,Japan.Believed orders were in progress to load a cargo from Visakhapatnam or Rangoon for Japan.

Should anyone be interested in the full story, there is a fascinating first hand account of the circumstances surrounding the stranding and ultimate demise of the CLAN ALPINE by Capt Andy Logan, (then the 2nd mate), in Sea Breezes, Vol. 72 (February, 1998), pages 99 - 109. He describes how the ship with full steam ahead was swept astern, dragging her anchor, by the storm surge associated with the cyclone at the amazing speed of 35 knots! Her final resting place was half a mile from the nearest water deep enough to float her.

List of crew dep Liverpool 16/9/60
Master F.Harris 45 Hull
Chief Officer R.J. Bews 28 Aberdeen
2nd Officer A.Logan 24 Dunoon
3rd Officer P. J.MacArthur 20 Portrush
Cadets A.C.M.Crichton 18 London
D. J.Funnell 17 Epsom
Radio Officer G.K.Paterson 38 Galashiels
Carpenter D.Varley 22 Harwich
Purser J.Prince 28 Hull
Chief Engineer C.Ross 64 Rutherglen
Mrs. E.Ross Wife of above 63 Rutherglen
2nd Engineer A.S.Lawson 30 Buckie
3rd Engineer J.S.Morris 25 Denniston
4th Engineer J.Driscoll 24 Newton Mearns
5th Engineer R.T.Flint 21 Bath
　
+ 59 Indian/Pakistani crew,many being repatriated from Glasgow to Chittagong area from other Clan vessels as was usual at the time.

　
　
　
　
Her cargo was discharged into trucks via a road constructed from the main road to Chittagong-completed on 4^th January 1961.and on 14.2.1961 she was sold by the underwriters the East Bengal Trading Corporation Ltd and broken up where she lay. She was declared a CTL and Clan Line received more insurance than would have been paid for her scrapping in Japan.


　

　

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[Captain Kong]

Thats the one Davey thanks, I knew she was an Empire type ship.
Cheers
Brian