longest time between ports

[steveh154]

i had a 42 day trip from seattle to kandla north west india via singapore for bunkers and stores it seemed endless. and to get to a port like kandla after that voyage needing a blow out was not conducive.

[cappy]

i had a 42 day trip from seattle to kandla north west india via singapore for bunkers and stores it seemed endless. and to get to a port like kandla after that voyage needing a blow out was not conducive.

kandla now that was a dump second to none....ran there a few times in58 and 59......india no thanks no wonder they all come here ......cappy

[Mervyn Wilde]

I once did a 59 day trip from Hay Point in Queensland where we loaded coal aboard m.v. Amber Pacific, sailed south of Australia, across the Southern Ocean where we never even saw another ship, the Cape and up to Gijon in Spain. Slow steaming at 10 knots to save fuel. First job on reaching anchorage was restocking of the beer supplies which had run out two weeks earlier. Oh what fun we had.

[Red Lead Ted]

Suez Canal closed. 33 days Bombay to Avonmouth, Happy days lads Terry.

[Chris Allman]

Yes again Suez Canal closed - 31 days from Djibouti to Antwerp around the Cape - Temp change of 101 degrees F in Djibouti to -13F in Antwerp - thought I would never get warm again - ship sweated like mad, as damp as anything - clothes etc mouldy - rude shock to the system.

[Christopher Gundry]

Hi my longest time between ports was aboard the Bradford City a Reardon Smiths tramp from Geraldton Western Australia to Cork in southern Ireland I think it was about 65 days and we kept breaking down of the west African coast . The whole trip was 12 months and one day finaly paying off in Cardiff.

[John Arton]

47 days slow steaming from tubarao, Brazil, to Kagoshima, Japan, via the cape, no stop, and Sunda
straight, bloody boring on a cape sized bulker with iron ore. Voyage started in Copenhagen where we were there for 3 weeks taking the new build out of the yard and ended 6 months later with only about 48 hours in port in between.
Rgds
J.A.

[patrick leech]

I think its been done before but whar was your longest time at sea between ports mine was on a blue star boat too the west coast of the states it took us 28 days too get too panama, kept breaking down in mid atlantic , and doing about 5 knots some days , when we got into the carribean we saw land and it was like we had never saw it before WOW look lads land

hi
I was on Tug Turmoil and we took 112 days to tow an oil rig and two dumb barges from Orange in Texas to Liberia,tough trip,ran out of fags and beer,salt water showers and stop passing ship for supplies
Pat Leech A>B>

[Michael Wainwright]

Four weeks from Rotterdam to the Gulf via the Cape on SS Esso Edinburgh and other Esso boats after the start of the six day war in 1967.

[DeepSea]

65 days slow steaming Port Headland, Australia with iron ore for Taranto, Italy. Chipped, scraped and painted the ship from stem to stern.

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