P.s.n.c

[Ivan Cloherty]

Well that is a surprise Ivan I never knew PSNC sailed to anywhere else but the WCSA ,one of my old ships aswell the Salinas.Was this a special charter,just a one off,if somebody would've told me that they went to the Pitcairn Islands on a PSNC cargo boat I would've found it hard to believe but there you are you did.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Have done a bit more digging Jim and you (and me!) will be surprised at what PSNC did, far too much to pen on here, but they were great innovators with having the first passenger ship with electricity and the first company to accept experimental steam and motor engines and had some of the fastest ships afloat in the 1870's with speeds of 15/16 knots not being uncommon (all the ships mentione below were bulit in 1870/1880's). They started a regular service to Australia and NZ in 1877 in conjunction with Liverpool traders Anderson and wait for it.... the name of the PSNC ship was 'Lusitania' on her maiden voyage she knocked 10 days off the previous record held by P & O (Peninsular and Orient) The PSNC/Anderson venture was called Pacific and Orient and became Orient Shipping when PSNC sold its interests in 1915. PSNC started a fortnightly service to Australasia after the 'Lusitania' voyage. Some of the vessels on the Australia service whose names you will recognise and some you may not...........'John Elder' (was going to be called Sarmiento, but the name was changed to John Elder who'es yard built her and he was the designer of her compond engine) 'Chimbarazo' 'Cuzco' 'Garonne' 'Acongagua' Liguria' 'Potosi' (one of the first vssls to be lengthened) 'Cotopaxi' Illimani' 'Oroya' 'Orizaba' (this vssl ran aground off Garden Island, Sydney when she ran into dense smoke which suddenly sparang up from bush fires in a land clearing exercise, she became a total wreck) 'Orotava' 'Oruba' (this vessel purchased by the Admiralty in 1914 and rebuilt to look like the battleship HMS 'Orion', she was scuttled in 1915 in the Agean sea to form a breakwater! ours is not reason why)

PSNC also established a Liverpool- Bordeaux-Buenos Airies service, but it only lasted a few years, as the WCSA was more profitable. As mentioned in the cruising forum they also ran services from Valparaiso, panama to San Francisco and Alaska'

So hope above was of some interest to a liverpool lad

[Jim Brady]

Thanks for that Ivan very interesting.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[ronald h taylor]

i was on the sallaverry in about 1961 we were in valpo for two weeks...all the deck crowd were adrift in this time apart for a few days.also on the kenuta ,and orcoma

[Peter F Chard]

Does anyone remember or recall an engineer named Ian Frith, born Fleetwood about 1936. Was a junior and then 4th. Engineer with PSNC. Regards Peter in NZ.

[j.sabourn]

The name Frith jogs a memory, but there again is a fairly common name, and have seen that many crew lists, is doubtful unless something not normal happened would remember. A name of ships he was on would no doubt clarify, but as you don't have, someone may come up with. Salutations on this few days remaining on the sanity of the world in general and the out of this world of the American Elections, with all the so called expert soothsayers of the world having their final say via all the forms of what we call the media. Whoever gets this honoured position is going to spend the next 4 years trying to prove to everyone they are perfectly sane and competent, and no one is going to believe them. JS