Beautiful Port Line Ships

[Frederick Lacey]

You have tickled the old grey cells again with some of the old cars, Ivan mentions the Ford Consul, this was my first car May 1959, bought it
just before I left the MN later in 59 after 10 years.img006.jpgimg013.jpgimg908.jpg

first photo summer 59 at windsor, 2nd Photo's at Cheddar Gorge 1960 with other half and car with a few extras on it

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Richard.
In your post #25 in the first picture the lad in the middle was his name Johnny Holmes? he looks just like a bloke I sailed with on the NZ coast, I know he was a steward at one time then changed over to the deck.
Cheers Des

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hi Roger,

Yes, that was it. We are all stewards from the old Port Dunedin mid 1950 and 'all dressed up like pox doctors' clerks' - now that's and old saying I just recalled - and like you and Keith dancing was more like Fred Austere. It certainly didn't attract any returns. Don't remember the Trades Hall though. The following year, 1951 I was in Auckland on the Gothic and were swinging on the anchor off Rangitoto Island in the Hauraki Gulf for a few weeks in the big National Dock Strike and got a tender in to Queen Street wharf quite a few time and had some good times.

Fateful trip that. In Wellington I went for my first drivers license and you know what the hills are like there. Told to pull over and park on this almost vertical piece of road which was OK but the brake, the clutch, the accelerator and my feet somehow got mixed up. By some miracle from rolling backwards to imitating a kangaroo I got going up the hill. The startled examiner gave me a license just in case he got me if I had to go back. Few days later I had my tonsils out - a botched job that put me into Greenwich Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital and for a couple of weeks. had a date with a lovely nurse and we went up to Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.

They were indeed happy days Roger, couldn't knock the grins off our faces with a stick.
Richard

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hi Des,
I remember him tho cannot recall his name but in those days nearly all of us were nick names anyway.. This was on the Gothic '51 to '53 and I'm acting the fool behind him. It was a happy ship.Cheers, Richard

[bernard mcdowall]

hi mate
got to tassie [[ beautiy point . hobart .]] on the port alfred , we were on charter to SALEN we had to paint our funnel blue wiyh a white S ,, that was in 1973
bernard mcdowall ex port alfred port port brisbane port new plymouth port chambers

[happy daze john in oz]

The Ford and GM Holden cars only found here in Oz and often developed for our climate and conditions.
One of the reasons they are no longer produced here, none or little overseas liking for them.
The cars from overseas became available and slowly sales of local made waned, now no more.

But back to the original thread.

Port and City line ships so often in Cape Town the same time as us.
\Always considered them to be such good looking ships with such slender lines, clean looking and inviting.

And Roger, fear not for your lack of dancing skill, you were not Adam on that one.
My skills were once described by a 'lady' as resembling a squid attempting to get away from a shark. One other asked me if I had been taught by Blind Freddy?.

[bernard mcdowall]

hi mate .got to beauty point 1973 on the port alfred i was junior eng ,i can remember if it was yersterday , if i remember they were 2 bars , boags xxx and cascade beer , then we went to hobart ,after that we went from hobart to hamburg 28 day passage round the cape , we ate tassie apples for months

bernard mcdowall

[Frank Thorp]

I recall one overnight stop in Hobart in the 60's. I can't remember what ship, but we later heard of a big fire the day after we left. Never did know if there was any truth in this.

Can anyone enlighten me after all this time?.

Frank Thorp.

[mike lowe]

Well, Brexit is on it's way, but probably too late!

[Red Lead Ted]

Like the rest of our once proud M.N. The ships sailed one by one and never returned, Containerization played its part of course, What i found with the Port boats was they where easily distinguishable, Not just because of there colors but i remember the Port Chalmers you have seen one you have seen them all happy days of a bygone era lads Terry.

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