Anchorline Engr.

[Andrew Macgregor]

Hi After a long time I have managed to sign on
again to this website!! Still is a Great Read,thanks Brien

[j.sabourn]

Andrew don't know how much history you know about Anchor line, mine is limited to what I was told. I can however lay claim to having dinner on the Circassia in Bombay about 1954. Runciman who at that time would have had his hands into the running of the financial side of the Company owned his own fleet of ships under the title of Moor Line Ltd. On the dissolving of Moor line Ltd in or about 1964 they closed their offices in Newcastle on Tyne at 56 Pilgrim Street, and moved up to Glasgow into the offices of Anchor Line, I was offered a job with them but declined after being with them 11 plus years, I had visions of passenger vessels which I wasn't too enamoured about, however found later they ran some of their old ships under the title of Runciman Shipping. If they are still running today obviously it was a bad call for me to make, however I very much doubt this and probably they went to the wall years ago also. You aren't any relation of the McGregor hatch people are you? they were from the Tyne area originally and started off in all places Monkseaton. Cheers John S.