Company names and their ships names

Stevie Clarke colliers named after South coast villages ,Shoreham , Henfield, Totland etc

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Originally Posted by Yachtsman

B.H.P. the Aust mining giant called nearly all its ships Iron something. Iron Baron all the way through the alphabet to Iron Yampi.
https://www.flotilla-australia.com/bhp.htm

Bob

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Thanks for this post, I remember many of the Iron boats when running across the Tasman with the Union Co, a mate up the road from me served on them
Des

When they came to L , Des wasn’t called the Iron Lung was it ? JS

Hi John.
As with British shipping it was a sad time when the Union Co and BHP got rid of their fleet of ships, we are now at the mercy of mainly foreign owned ships and Govts, and we call ourselves independent. :th_thth5952deef:
Des

For any island country not having its own merchant fleets is the most stupid position for any government with half a brain to let happen. This was that obvious during the Falklands war and even worse today. Sometimes I wonder how some of these politicians are not that disaffected with their own intelligence they don’t just shrivel up with embarrassment . JS

I was in Houlders and the Grange vessels all had a first name which when the initial letters put together spelled Houlder i.e. Hardwicke, Oswestry, Upwey, Dunster, Effingham and Royston. They managed Alexander Shipping ships all named after towns in the west country ending in bury, Tewkesbury, Tenbury etc. The Hadley ships they managed were named after Shakesperian characters beginning with a C Cerinthus, Clymene etc. Much better than LNG1,

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Originally Posted by J Gowers

I was with Denholms for 10 years 74-84 and all the Denholms owned ships, not managed ships, were named after Greenock parks where the company was founded in the 1800s. The story goes that when they ran out of Greenock and Gourock parks they were going to call a ship the Denholmpark but as it was over 10 letters it would count as two words when sending radio faxes so they called one ship the Denpark and another the Holmpark. This may have been an urban myth though.

Later I went to on to drilling rigs and the company I worked for merged with SONAT, an American company, and their rigs were all named after company directors etc. They had one rig based in the USA was named after a director called 'Pratt Rather' however when it came to the North Sea they had to change the name to Sonat Rather for obvious reasons.

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Reminds me of a similar experience at my employers(American) in the 70s. Big push for improvement all round covered by the slogan C*****s Approach to Continuous Improvement. As was the way at the time reduced to an acronym - CACI. Our American colleagues were initially puzzled by the hilarity this raised when announcec

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Originally Posted by cappy

and ropners ...although....our old friend from torquay ivan praised them quite highly ....perhaps it was a bad name from earlier timesR683532

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Ropners as a company I never found them wanting (Northerners will understand) from my very first visit to Darlington I was treated fairly, as a company we always got what we ordered as far as stores and victualling were concerned. However it was Masters, Mates and C/E trying to make a name for themselves by cutting out things that could influence a persons thinking. I did four trips on the same ship 'Levenpool' three under Captain Carter, a very happy ship, good feeder and plenty of overtime for all, she was old (ex Empire Lionel) but clean, slow and lacking in modern navigational aids. Then another Master joined his name also began with a 'C' C------, but was shortened to four letters also beginning with a 'c', I will not give his name as his son is still alive and may look in at times. No overtime for anyone, unless it was essential for stations etc, food cut down, so creative cook could no longer be bothered, mail not sent if crew didn't have Master's level of reserves for crew members wages, I paid for numerous crew members mail, sent on my account. The crew hadn't changed for the previous three trips, on return to UK all crew members except C/E signed off and never signed on again, I was told by the Master I would never sail on another of the company's ships, his recommendation worked, the company appointed me to a new build and paid me to stay at home until she was ready to sail, only drawback being our projected three month trip became a 22 month trip, but a very happy ship once everyone settled down and realised we wouldn't be going through the Suez or Panama Canals for a long time, but we did see parts of the world Heineken couldn't reach.

So one man's actions could change a person's perspective of a company had that fourth voyage been their first experience of Ropners. Happy days

I sailed with Silver line, all prefixed Silver, the chemical ships birds of prey, the bulkers after geographical features, Fjord,Sand, Shore etc then later ones to Scottish rivers. The early ships(tramps)were named after trees

What can I say...left Oz after doing a cadetship on box boats and Ro Ros and joined a "famous" British tramp company. One of the best decisions I ever made. It was recommended to me by ex- _ _ _ _ boat engineers. Any ideas? Suffice to say if you saw a ship in any and all ports in the World, small or large and saw a vessel named "Somethingbank" any seafarer worth his salt would know the company. Let alone want to sail on her....

Second giveaway......usually the smartest ship in the dock!!!