canals

Here are some photos of the Suez, 2005.
Brian

The new Bridge, El Firdan Bridge, Ismalia, the Canal and the last one is a dredger.

[QUOTE=John Arton;163712]South Bound through Suez you pass smelly cities.....

Name one.

when i was on the city of london, brussels steamship co, did the weekly run to brussels, very scenic. did the panama canal twice and thirteen runs through the suez. the last trip was south bound, one of the last conveys to clear before the invasion in 56, did not stop to drop off the searchlight, i think it was dropped off in durban on our way home around the cape.
regards, stan carter

Ian
Ref#23
Any city in Egypt
rgds
JA

My vivid memories of the Kiel Canal was coming from Gdansk with coke for karachi. The Arab second mate jumped overside where i dont really know, he wasnt there when we got out, but was sighted by someone else doing a pierhead jump the wrong way.There followed 10 months with no second mate. Cheers JS

My first trip was up the Manchester ship canal after that I did 14 trips up the suez and 12 through the panama ,after the first few trips through them we hardly went on deck too see what was going on , sadly got so used too seeing many wonderous sights on our travels .

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Originally Posted by Neville Roberts

M , sadly got so used too seeing many wonderous sights on our travels .

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How true Neville, at the time we didn't realise how privileged we were with viewing so many things that others could only dream about and getting paid for the privilege, though not much! Must say I never got tired of all the numerous Panama Canal transits I did, seemed to me there was always something new happening, and also being on the bridge we had an advantage of seeing some way ahead and what you were approaching and what was approaching you. Also as a navigator making a landfall you had never seen before and that long awaited mountain or landmark appearing where it was supposed to be. The beautiful and amazing sunrise and the sunsets with the green flash, a starlit night in a 360 degree vista with planets and moon making it almost daylight, the phosphorous bow wave rippling away into the distance, the beauty and savagery of a storm and the apprehension it filled you with when the bow seemed to dip for longer than usual with the foremost three hatches disappearing under a wall of water, the relief as the fo'cle head reappeared from that green/black wall sending plumes of spray high into the air and into the distance and over the masthead. We had it all, maybe we didn't appreciate it much at the time, but it stayed in our subconcious to be awakened in later years by our own memory cells and the memories of others, Google will never replace that.

I sailed up 2 interesting canals, among others, one was from Caen to Oustreham passing Pegasus Bridge of WW2 Fame, the other was the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, which is a short cut to Baltimore, Maryland. I think it is the only canal owned by the military, apparently, the US Army Corps of Engineers own and run it. they also do the dredging

went through CAPE COD canal onport dunidin on passage Portland boston 62

We went through the Cape Cod Canal when I was on Cunards Parthia in 1961, Autumn, it was beautiful with all the different coloured trees along the sides, from New York to Boston.
I would say at that time of year the prettiest Canal of all.
Cheers
Brian.