Beer Ships, or how the Blue Funnel Inspired Loyalty

[robpage]

John Arton Specifically asked for the wartime amenities photograph , this is the Pre War one

[Gulliver]

I'm afraid not Rob.Your picture shows the MENESTHEUS (2) built in 1958.

This picture below is the MENESTHEUS (1) of 1929 (i.e. the Amenities Ship )rebuilt with single funnel after the war.

MENESTHEUS (1) 1929-Rebuilt with Single Funnel Post War..jpg

Best Regards
Gulliver

[robpage]

It looked a pre war design , so I assumed , Whoops , could have been worse , I could have picked a container ship or Bulk carrier by mistake !!!

[Gulliver]

That's easily done with Blue Flue and Glen Line ships,Rob. I think all Blue Flue ships up to the sixties looked distinctly old-fashioned.Not unattractive though....Blue Funnel.gif

[robpage]

When you look at the Saint line ships of the same vintage , It really does look OLD !!!

[Ivan Cloherty]

Got to agree with that Rob, those Saint Line ships did look beautiful and a model makers dream. Never sailed on one so will someone comment on their inner beauty or otherwise. The Blue Flue ships always looked purposeful, but then again they were different! with 'rooms' instead of 'cabins' and two bells for sightings to starboard and one bell for sightings to port

[Gulliver]

Got to agree with that Rob, those Saint Line ships did look beautiful and a model makers dream. Never sailed on one so will someone comment on their inner beauty or otherwise. The Blue Flue ships always looked purposeful, but then again they were different! with 'rooms' instead of 'cabins' and two bells for sightings to starboard and one bell for sightings to port

...not forgetting those derricks they called 'columns' !
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Gulliver

[John Pruden]

blue funnel did have their own way of doing things but it did work and the ships were very good work horses i had no complaints but it was the only company i sailed for.jp

[Captain Kong]

When I joined the Melampus for the maiden voyage as AB they had Leading Seamen, telling me what to do. I did not agree with that type of rating
that was enough to get me to wallk off for Seamens Strike in 1960. They did not like that, No one walks off a Blu Flu. I was still home when she returned four months later.
Never sailed Blu FLU again.
Brian

[leratty]

Agree that they were beautiful, very modern looking vessels ahead of their time almost art decco. Two others that looked interesting, well certainly the hulls were, were the Port Wanstead & Wimbledon. I can not recall their actual owners I think a London firm as they were on charter to Port Line, they had this really unusual if you will 'knuckled' hull plating kind of akin a large "clinker" style you used to see in dinghy's & sailing dinghy's that I started off in. Maybe there are some photos of them, the ships somewhere? Richard