The Box That Changed Britain

[Captain Kong]

I was on a Blue Funnel Sam boat in 1959/60. we were coming into Singapore with a Chinese Pilot in the wheel house, I was on the wheel, as we were passing a cargo ship, it had boxes on the foredeck. The Captain asked, "What are those" to the Pilot. He answered, " Captain, that is the end of all Blue Funnel ships. " "Rubbish" said our Captain.
A few years later Blue Flu had disapeared for ever.

[john james]

We all look back on conventional merchant ships with nostalgia,modern container ships just do not have the same visual appeal.But containerisation was i think another industrial revolution, it had to come,but what i wonder will come after container ships.