Hello and can you help please?

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hmm! Davey the large picture has two hatches on the foredeck, two hatches twixt bridge and E/room and one hatch aft, would definitely make her a 2+2+1

The small picture has two hatches on foredeck, 1 hatch twixt bridge and E/room and two hatches abaft accommodation which makes her a 2+1+2, she also has two sampson posts and two derricks immediately for'd of the bridge, the pine and larch do not, all of them have two small derricks from the aft sampson (#5)posts over the tonnage hatch. As far as I can make out the name on the smaller picture is Silverw......

More investigating Watson, may have to ask Moriarty

[Paul Henderson]

Thanks all, I had some of the information about the Silverlarch already but there I plenty that I didn't have. I did think that the Captain being there on the deck would have been unusual but thanks for confirming the logic

Great picture of her Gulliver

I believe that she also did some work through to Singapore to take civilians away from the ware zone and the captain was given a good write up from the Navy for volunteering to take in munitions on another run in the area

Sorry lads, I don't have the Navy speak but I hope you understand.

[Gulliver]

Hmm! Davey the large picture has two hatches on the foredeck, two hatches twixt bridge and E/room and one hatch aft, would definitely make her a 2+2+1

The small picture has two hatches on foredeck, 1 hatch twixt bridge and E/room and two hatches abaft accommodation which makes her a 2+1+2, she also has two sampson posts and two derricks immediately for'd of the bridge, the pine and larch do not, all of them have two small derricks from the aft sampson (#5)posts over the tonnage hatch. As far as I can make out the name on the smaller picture is Silverw......

More investigating Watson, may have to ask Moriarty

OK I think you're right there Ivan,so it looks like the main picture in my post is definitely SILVERLARCH.

The smaller picture with different hatch configuration might be the SILVERWALNUT or SILVERWILLOW of about 1930 vintage,and has possibly been identified on Photoships as SILVERLARCH and filed under it accordingly,which of course can happen in the absence of positive identification.

The main picture definitely shows SILVERLARCH,and there would be no point in changing her configuration would there !
Regards
Gulliver

[Ron B Manderson]

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[Ivan Cloherty]

OK I think you're right there Ivan,so it looks like the main picture in my post is definitely SILVERLARCH.

The smaller picture with different hatch configuration might be the SILVERWALNUT or SILVERWILLOW of about 1930 vintage,and has possibly been identified on Photoships as SILVERLARCH and filed under it accordingly,which of course can happen in the absence of positive identification.

The main picture definitely shows SILVERLARCH,and there would be no point in changing her configuration would there !
Regards
Gulliver

Big picture definitely Silverlarch, at first when I saw the small picture I thought maybe they had done a 'cut and shut' job on her, but that wouldn't have been economical without increasing the DWCC, which looks from the profile just about the same, then I noticed the small subtle differences on the smaller picture. They certainly liked the bridge accommodation design on the three pictures we have seen, and from their era of 1924 +/- must have been some of the first ships to have cruiser sterns. From the design of the Pine, I would say that she was probably a design that Thompsons of Sunderland based their standard design on for the Empire class which we know later evolved in to the Liberty ship with the Yanks condensing the housing into one block.

I like these quizzes even though I don't know the answers, because they always evolve into something else and get the little grey cells working, which keeps us young