CI Shipping

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures in   CI Shipping

01 Jan 2020

Bullard King Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures in   Bullard King

02 Jan 2020

Clan Line Ships

Picture of   Amara

04 Jan 2020

Clan Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures in   Clan Line General Cargo Ships

04 Jan 2020

Clan Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures in the remainder of   Clan Line Ships

06 Jan 2020

Hector Whaling Ships

Houston Line Ships

King Line Ships

Safmarine Ships

Scottish Shire Line Ships

Scottish Tankers Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Hector Whaling Ships   

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Houston Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    King Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Safmarine Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Scottish Shire Line Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Scottish Tankers Ships

07 Jan 2020

Union-Castle Ships

South American Saint Line Ships

Springbok Line Ships

Press cutting and photo of   Reina Del Mar   in Cape Town on her way to the breakers

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    South American Saint Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Springbok Line Ships   

08 Jan 2020

Castle Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Castle Line and Donald Currie Ltd

09 Jan 2020

Union Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Union Line Ships

10 Jan 2020

Union- Castle Line Ships

General tidy-up and rescanning of pictures of    Union-Castle Ships

15 Jan 2020

British & Commonwealth Group

Update with items about   Engineer Cadet Training

16 Jan 2020

Bowater Steamship Co

A brief history of   Bowaters in Shipping

18 Jan 2020

Clan Line Staff

Tributes to   Capt Bob Royan   who died on 18 January 2020

19 Jan 2020

British & Commonwealth Staff

An account of Reina Del Mar’s voyage to the scrapyard by   Richard Speight

20 Jan 2020

Bullard King Ships
Union-Castle Ships

From Ships and South Africa by Marischal Murray some stories of the life of  the   Bullard King Ships

Picture of the Officers and Crew of   Walmer Castle (2)

22 Jan 2020

Clan Line Ships

Clan Line Chartered Ships

Clan Line Staff

Bullard King Staff

King Line Staff

Union-Castle Staff

Scottish Tankers

Recollections of Burn’s Night on   Clan MacIntosh

On charter to Clan Line in 1962   Trevean

Service records for    D Shanks   and   Capt L S Jones

Service record for   D J A Stuart

Service record for   A A Atwood

Service record for   N Parker

Christmas 1961 aboard   Scottish Eagle

23 Jan 2020

Clan Line Staff

Union-Castle Staff

Union-Castle Ships

Update with photo and service record for   Capt G A Shearer

New entry for   A J Rotherham

Service record for   Capt H Andrews

Update with photo and service record for   Bill Blanden

The rescue of the residents of Tristan da Cunha aboard   Stirling Castle

23 Jan 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Clan Line Staff

Union-Castle Staff

British & Commonwealth Staff

A Presidential Trip in 1962 on   Edinburgh Castle

A Royal Farewell to   Carnarvon Castle

Updates to   Capt Arthur MacIntyre   and his son   Capt A R MacIntyre   and   Capt Alphonsus Lynch

Updates to   Nicol Robertson

New entry for   Chris Laycock

24 Jan 2020

Crew Lists

New crew list for   August 1956

26 Jan 2020

Clan Line Staff

Scottish Shire Line Staff

New entries for   Capt W G Young   A McRae   Capt Q C Pagan   Capt R C Jones   C McIvor   Capt J B Gourlay

and   W P Orr   

Updates for   Capt D Davenport-Jones   and   Capt A B Lyall

New entry for   Capt W J Page

25 Jan 2020

Union-Castle Staff

Update with service record to   R C C Kirkwood   Stanley Logan

27 Jan 2020

Clan Line Staff

Clan Line Ships

Union-Castle Staff

Union-Castle Ships

King Line Staff

Update with service record to   Capt F W Last    Capt A McComish     A E Moore    C C Wade   James Stewart   

A C W Logie   J C Swan   G A Morison   

Emergency drydock for   Clan MacTavish

Update with service record to   Eric Shaw   Capt C Aylen   

Picture of   Warwick Castle   at the breakers in Barcelona

Update with service record to   John Stein

28 Jan 2020

Royal Navy Ships

Union-Castle Ships

Three paintings of   HMS Pretoria Castle

A very strange artistic work featuring   Pretoria Castle (1)   and a lady in a Union-Castle hat.

01 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Union-Castle Staff

Clan Line Staff

Pictures of the launch and fitting out of   Pendennis Castle

Some additional pictures including the launch of   Rhodesia Castle

Update to the service record of   Capt G D Fowler

Updates to service records of   Malcolm Smith   Capt T N Soane

05 Feb 2020

Clan Line Ships

A picture of   Clan MacKinnon (3)   in later life as Labuan Bay

An update to   Clan MacLachlan   and her collision with The Runcorn Bridges

09 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Union-Castle Staff

Clan Line Ships

Saint Line Ships

Update to   Rotherwick Castle

Update to   Capt George Mayhew

Christmas 1970 aboard   Clan MacIndoe   and pictures of her bombed in The Shatt-al-Arab

The ex   St Rosario   shelled and lost in The Shatt-al-Arab

10 Feb 2020

Clan Line Ships

Memories of the final voyage of   Clan Sutherland

11 Feb 2020

CI Shipping Ships

Scottish Shire Line Ships

The maiden voyages of   Stirling Universal   and   Edinburgh Universal

The crew on   Ayrshire   at the time of her loss

12 Feb 2020

Clan Line Ships

Where known I have inserted crew lists on notable voyages for   Clan Line Ships

13 Feb 2020

King Line Ships

Safmarine Ships

Where known I have inserted crew lists on notable voyages for   King Line Ships

Where known I have inserted crew lists on notable voyages for   Safmarine Ships

14 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Where known I have inserted crew lists on notable voyages for  Union-Castle Ships

16 Feb 2020

Clan Line Staff

Update to the service record of   Ralph Bannister

17 Feb 2020

Clan Line Staff

New entry for   Capt A J Tyrrell

21 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Staff

Update to the early service record of   Capt GWB Lloyd

22 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Update to the page of   Braemar Castle

Tommy Steele sails to South Africa in 1958 aboard   Winchester Castle

24 Feb 2020

British & Commonwealth Staff

Union-Castle Ships

Recruitment leaflet   A Way of Life as a Navigating Cadet

A cargo plan for Voyage 10 of   Bratton Castle

25 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Ships

The launch of   Roxburgh Castle (1)

26 Feb 2020

British & Commonwealth Staff

New entry for   Neil Ward

27 Feb 2020

Clan Line Ships

Royal Navy Ships

Additional information about   Clan Urquhart (1)

A painting produced to commemorate Operation Souce and the part played by   HMS Bonaventure

29 Feb 2020

Union-Castle Staff

New entry for   John Reginald Founds

2 Mar 2020

Clan Line Ships

Photograph of   Clan Alpine   on charter to Hansa Line

4 Mar 2020

Clan Line Staff

British & Commonwealth Staff

South American Saint Line Staff

Pictures of an antique desk that refers to  Captain John Boag

New entries for   Robert G Smith   and   Alan Norman

Reference letter for   Chris Isaac   at the end of Saint Line

8 Mar 2020

British & Commonwealth Staff

Union-Castle Ships

Update to the service record of   Brian Georgeson

Pictures of the launch, fitting out and trials of   Windsor Castle (2)

9 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Maiden voyage departure of   Transvaal Castle

10 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Clan Line Staff

Building, launch and subsequent refit of   Arundel Castle

New entry for   David Sellars

12 Mar 2020

Reunions

News of the cancellation of this year’s   Union-Castle Reunion

13 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

The 1938/9 MCC Tour of South Africa return home on   Athlone Castle

14 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

A number of changes have been made to the stories of   The Mail Ships

16 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

A number of changes have been made to the stories of   The Intermediate Ships

18 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

Photograph of    Warwick Castle (4)   arriving at Cape Town

21 Mar 2020

National Service

An index of the ships of all companies that were called upon to provide   National Service

27 Mar 2020

Small Craft

Union-Castle Ships

British & Commonwealth Staff

An additional picture of   Ulundi (1)

An unusual view of the final Cape Town departure of   Windsor Castle

An update to the service record of   Andy Skarstein

28 Mar 2020

Union-Castle Ships

A final notice from Cape Argus on the demise of    Windsor Castle

29 Mar 2020

Safmarine Mailships

Union-Castle Ships

A group photo of the officers on the final voyage of   SA Oranje

Now Margarita L   Windsor Castle   in dry dock in Malta

The final departure from Cape Town for   Reina Del Mar

Press cuttings about the fire aboard   Good Hope Castle   in 1970 between East London and Durban

31 Mar 2020

British & Commonwealth Staff

Update to service record of and photo of   Stanley Cain

1 Apr 2020