mv coptic john noon

[happy daze john in oz]

I was always convinced that the Queens 1954 visit to Australasia was on the S.S."Gothic" I seem to remember a plaque in the very fancy, timber clad passenger flat beneath the magnificent twin companion ways to the main passenger accomm.1958 is a fair while ago so I could be mistaken.

All this reference to 'queens', some might get the wrong idea, I trust it is Liz of whom we speak?

[Gulliver]

I was always convinced that the Queens 1954 visit to Australasia was on the S.S."Gothic" I seem to remember a plaque in the very fancy, timber clad passenger flat beneath the magnificent twin companion ways to the main passenger accomm.1958 is a fair while ago so I could be mistaken.

You're exactly right,Neil...it was the GOTHIC.
(1954 pic to prove it)

[MARTIN SIZE]

hi just joined
anybody do any trips on the coptic I was on her for her last trip to nz before she went to be scrapped think it was in 64/65 the captain was captain jones all the crew from liverpool and very young you can imagine the carry on good lads though ship was falling to bits broke down off the australian coast

HI JOHN I was on the Coptic with remember me dragging you back to the ship when we were about to sail and Gordon done is party piece on the quay sadly Gordon passed away. But I still see Jimmy Mc Ilroy I think I have a photo of you I'll have to dig it out, are you still in Bootle I am over in Wallasey look forward to hear from you
By the way the captains name was Williams as we went u p to see him a lot on that great trip 1964
Yours MARTY SIZE

[aaron dunne]

my father sailed on this ship in the early 60 s, anthony dunne (rip) from ireland, anyone kow him.

[Annabel Stafford]

Hello,
My name is Annabel Stafford and I am writing a novel that is set in 1937 on a ship based on the MV Coptic. I am trying desperately to find any plans or cross sections or models of the Ship to give me a better idea of what she looked like as well as any memories of the Ship from the people that sailed on her. My grandmother Ann Fraser Thompson was on the coptic as ship's doctor sailing from Sydney to London in 1937 (if there were any records of the ship at that time - i think the Captain was James Avern- even better!). Any help you guys could give me would be very very gratefully received!!
best wishes
Annabel

[Frederick Lacey]

Thought this would be of interest.

ship coptic, shaw savill albion

[Annabel Stafford]

Thank you, Frederick! Do you know where I might find some plans for cargo ships like the Coptic? Thank you again! Best wishes
Annabel

[Ivan Cloherty]

Annabel, local Universities to where the ship was built can be a useful source of information for innumerable things, as the vessel was built by Swan Hunter, you could give Newcastle or Durham Universities a try. I have always found Universities a help in the past by writing to the Archivist

[Tony Catesby]

No you were not mistaken it WAS GOTHIC

[Des Taff Jenkins]

We escorted the Gothic with the Queen aboard in 54 as far as Aden, I was on the RFA Wave Baron on the way out to oil the fleet off Korea then on to Singapore.
Des