Hello and can you help please?

[Paul Henderson]

Hello all

I am new to the forum and although I have had plenty of relatives in the past who were Merchant Navy men, I am a land/Air lover (Ex RAF)

I have a photo that I would like to share which shows the moment that the American Passengers onboard the Silverlarch were taken offthe ship after she had a fire in the Pacific and the USS Louiseville came to her rescue. There are two officers shown on board and as my Great Uncle Frederick Henderson was the Captain/Master, I was hoping that there was someone on this forum that could tell me what rank at least one of them was. It is difficult to see but heres hoping.

My only problem is that I cannot find anywhere to attach a photo to this message

[Gulliver]

Welcome Aboard Paul !
OK In the position in your post where you want it,click on the green symbol (Insert Image) then when it opens a new box ,click From Computer,then Select Files.This should open the file location of your photo(s) on your PC. Select Files,then Upload Files. This should insert the image into your post.Don't worry if you mess up at first,we've all been there !

Hope this Helps.
Gulliver.

[Paul Henderson]

Here goes but I think on this occasion it hasn't worked, just shows text but I will post and see what happens


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[Captain Kong]

You did it Paul
Brian

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Paul.
I doubt if the captain would have been down on the deck to help the passengers aboard, he would have stayed on the bridge in case he had to do some manouvering, it would have been more like the second or third mate standing there
Cheers Des


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hird

[Gulliver]

A bit of info about SILVERLARCH

m.v.SILVERLARCH (O.N. 147710) Cargo vessel 5,122 gross tons ,Diesel,13 knots, completed 8/1924 as Yard No.1233 by Swan Hunter & Richardson,Wallsend for Mount SS Co.Ltd;London.
1925 Owners now registered as Silver Line Ltd;London
1947 Sold to Angfartygs Ab Bore,Turku,Finland and renamed BORE VIII.
3/1958 Broken Up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht,Netherlands.SILVERLARCH Pic 1.jpgSILVERLARCH Pic 2.jpg

[Gulliver]

for Paul H. USS Louisville 4.jpgReUSS Louisville (CA-28) passengers from the British Motor Ship Silver Larch pose with Louisville's Commanding Officer, Captain William S. Farber, upon their arrival at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 14 March 1937. The cruiser had rescued them on the previous day from the burning Silver Larch, about 450 miles northeast of Honolulu. Courtesy of Don S. Montgomery, USN (Retired), 1987. US Naval Historical Center Photograph. Click on photograph for larger image.


Paul H. Relevant to Your Post,googled from Tinternet.
Best Regards

[Richard Quartermaine]

Good on you Gulliver. Richard

[Ivan Cloherty]

Two different vessels in the photos, first one has a 2+2+1 configuration, small one has a 2+1+2 configuration, don't see a lot of the 2+2+1 interesting

[Gulliver]

Two different vessels in the photos, first one has a 2+2+1 configuration, small one has a 2+1+2 configuration, don't see a lot of the 2+2+1 interesting

Puzzling,you've got a good pair of peepers there Ivan. Both pics downloaded from Photoships of course.​
Strange thing is that there was only one SILVERLARCH ever built throughout history,so which is the real one? The larger pic definitely shows SILVERLARCH on her bow and is of 2+1+1 surely?-not 2+2+1as you say?. In the smaller pic it's hard to make out the name on the bow,but she looks like a 2+1+2?.I looked at her immediate sistership SILVERPINE (below),same builders,dimensions etc and she lools like the main picture of SILVERLARCH (2+1+1.
Maybe the smaller picture is not of Silverlarch,it can obviously happen with 1000's of ships on Photoships. Does anyone have a decent pair of binocs (or whatever techno thingey PC's have these days) to zoom in on the smaller picture of Silverlarch? She may not be Silverlarch.
Here's sister Silverpine for comparison purposes,Ivan.
Silverpine-02.jpg