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[Doc Vernon]

Attached is a Picture of Port Funchal Madeira!There are a few Ships Docked there and the question is can anyone identify these Liners!Would be interesting to find out!
Any Takers!!
Cheers

[alf corbyn]

hi vernon. i didn't know maderia had a harbour. i went there many times on ucl but always anchored out. alf

[Ron B Manderson]

Am I a bright boy but is that not the Canbarra with the two stacks and next to it is that a CP liner.?

Wrong again ?
Ron Batman

[Doc Vernon]

Hello Alf
Are you not perhaps mixing it up with St Helena,as i too have been there a few times,i remember that St Helena never had a Harbour and we used to Anchor out of the Bay,went ashore in the Local Launch Boats!
Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

Hello Ron
As i am not sure on those Liners,i cant say yes or no,but i think that is not the Canberra somehow!?? You are talking about the one in the fireground are you not?? Stacks with Stripes!
As for the other one i dont know!
Cheers
Will await more answers on this!
Thanks

[Gulliver]

Well Vernon,just for my input(and I'm probably way off the mark here!) the third vessel along from the right looks like a Chandris liner?-because of funnel,which would be blue with a white St.Andrews 'X'.Looking from this angle it would appear a bit like a 'K' .Having said that I just read that Chandris Lines only started their emigrant run to Australia in 1959/60-but of course the Post Card is dated 1958....maybe it's wrong(Heh!),in which case I could suggest that she is the Chandris liner PATRIS..which is of course the ex-Bloemfontein Castle........now,how's that for a bit of fanciful weaving?
My thoughts about the Canberra?...well,I would think that Funchal,Madeira would not be available to her ,as she's a big liner with,as is well-known, a deep(concrete-filled ballast tanks) draft........Anchor outside and ashore by tender job.
Maybe the postcard is wrong again-----maybe it's Tenerife!
Typical me-moving the goalposts yet again and suggesting the postcard is wrong(Ha!)

I suppose some of the other passenger ships might be Portuguese ferries either to Lisbon or inter-islands?
About my suggestion for the Chandris liner,I attach two pics of PATRIS and BLOEMFONTEIN CASTLE for comparison.
Wonder how far this thread will go now?........

All the Best

Gulliver

[John Callon]

Hi Vernon,
The twin funneled ship (like Canberra) could be one of Zim Israel Lines ships. They operated a service from Haifa/Gibraltar/Funchal/New York.
The one in the middle I have no idea.
The ship in the foreground, twin black funnels with white bands looks to me to be one of Bergen Lines ships - either the Leda or Venus. Norwegian Flag.
John C.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Davey
Thanks for your input,i will look into all that,but one thing that Pic is correct! Madeira!
Cheers

Number now in for you!

That Ship Patris you could well be right on!
Here is an old Video f her must be leaving the Greek Isles and the name is in Greek too!??
Is this the same one!
Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNWknZm_hSE

[Trader]

The ship with the striped funnels on the right is the m.v. Venus of Bergen Line built in 1931 and broken up in 68 at Faslane. She ran from Newcastle to Bergen in the summer and cruised from Plymouth to Madeira and Tenerife in the winter. I spent two weeks discharging coal on that very same berth in 1959 on the Uskmouth.

Alec.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Alec and (John Callon) Well thank you for that,at least that is one out the way for sure!
Funny how some posts bring on some good memories!
Thanks again!
Chers

Now i have a Pic of her thanks to you!
Wonder if this one was also taken round that Area ! Cant make out that little Island on her Starboard Side!
Cheers