Ship profiles

[Capt Bill Davies]

What company owned your favourite looking ships. Not necessarily those you sailed on as this may colour your view.

For me it was Blue Funnel. 'P' Class (1949)

Bill

[John Arton]

Ben Line, any of theirs, especially the ones where the chinese painters had painted the outside accom bulkheads to imitate wood graining.
After that, the old swedish johnson line cargo ships.
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Capt. John Arton (ret'd)

[Tony Wilding]

the Port line with the rounded bridges looked good, and later Bank line ships, Bank line ships seemed to have low profile, looked tidy and efficient ships.

[Ivan Cloherty]

South American Saint Line always looked streamlined giving a nice profile, different altogether were Fyffes Banana Boats always looked like private yachts lovingly maintained, did those on board ever get their hands dirty ?

[Capt Bill Davies]

Ben Line, any of theirs, especially the ones where the chinese painters had painted the outside accom bulkheads to imitate wood graining.

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Capt. John Arton (ret'd)

Remember that John. I think there were one or two who were employed to do nothing else.

The American 'Mariner Class' owned by Lykes, Pacific Far East and many other USA Companies were good looking ship with speeds well inxs of 21 kts.

[Tony Wilding]

in many cases in those days you knew what company a ship was by her profile, it is interesting to compare how they evolved from earlier ships, some features were continued. untill containers reared there ugly heads, but that is evolution. i wonder if general cargo ships will ever return, ?

[Chris Allman]

I have to say Federal Steam Navigation's " Mataura " was a beautiful ship, she was originally built for P & O. Also Federal's " Westmoreland " whose sisters "Taupo", "Tongariro" and "Tekoa were with the New Zealand Shipping Co was also a lovely looking ship.

Chris.

[John Albert Evans]

The 12000 tonners ,Eagle Oil Shipping Company. San Fernando, Florentino,Forntunato. I sailed on all three even the old T2 tanker San Leonardo,she was a good ship, also the Joe Shell tankers Achatina, Platidia, memories and happy days from when i was in my teens and now im in my 70's. I really do feel sometimes the the youngsters of today (Teenagers) miss out on the times that we all, on this site, must have had when we were younger. We saw the whole world literally, were fed, watered and paid for our troubles. Looking backI wouldn't have swopped it for anything, but at the time is was nothing out of the ordinary.
How many of us feel the same.

John Albert Evans.

[Tony Wilding]

my first ship was MV Newcastle Star, when i first saw that huge flared bow and raked stem i was really impressed, topped off by the distinctive funnel, the funnnel was a nice design, very noticeable, unlike many other plain buff ones, or black as in Watts Watts ect, the later Blue Star ships all had impressive flared bows, looked powerful ships, now the all look the same, a box with a bulbous bow, and company logo painted in big letters on the hull. purely built for carrying capacity, looks dont enter the equasion now, i feel sorry for those who sail on the smaller box boats, crew right aft and ten stories high, when they roll it must be scary, midships was allways best place to live.

[Lou Barron]

the Union Castle Line i thought had some very nice looking ships