2021 Additions
Crew Lists
Ongoing conversion of Crew Lists to a digital format now completed
You can find crew members by entering their name into “Search The Site” and the locations of their names will be shown
10 Feb 2021
King Line Ships
Update to King Alexander
06 Jan 2021
Clan Line Ships
An account of civil unrest in Chittagong and the role of Clan MacNair
11 Jan 2021
King Line Ships
A voyage to The Gulf on King Malcolm in 1971
28 Jan 2021
Clan Line Staff
Additions to the page of Capt Raymond Shattock
29 Jan 2021
Union Line Staff
Union Line Ships
Additions to the page of C S Du Sautoy
A broken propellor shafft on Roman (1) in 1877
31 Jan 2021
King Line Ships
Picture of Don Benito
09 Feb 2021
Crew Lists
New entry for 1935 - November
11 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Ships
King Line Staff
Additional photographs of 1971 Cadets aboard Kinnaird Castle
Addition to The Cargo Mailships
New entry for Capt Magnus Ritch
12 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Staff
King Line Staff
Clan Line Ships
Update with a service record for Christopher (Ken) Jones
Updates to Capt Magnus Ritch
Update to Clan Grant
15 Feb 2021
King Line Staff
Updates to Capt Charles Ritch
17 Feb 2021
King Line Ships
Some additional vessels believed to have been managed or chartered during and after WW1:
Boldwell Lord Byron Princess Dagmar War Cariboo Javary Cape Corso and War Anemone
18 Feb 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
Bowater Ships
Union-Castle Staff
CI Shipping Ships
New entry for Ian Cowley
Pictures of the launch and sea trials of Nicolas Bowater
New entry for Dennis Tourell
Additional photos aboard Scirocco Universal
19 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Family memories of the war-time exploits of Arnold Wolfe
20 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
Clan Line Ships
British & Commonwealth Staff
South American Saint Line Staff
King Line Ships
Crew Lists
Return to service in 1974 for Good Hope Castle
Update to Tom Peake
Memorial notice for Capt I A W Williamson
Update to Capt A G MacPherson
Unusual deck cargo on Clan MacLean
Engineering cadets at Aberdeen College 1973/1974
Additional information about Robin Plumley
Additional information about Capt E C Martyn
A rescue at sea on King Alfred
New crew list for 1953 - May
21 Feb 2021
Clan Line Staff
Clan Line Ships
Union-Castle Staff
New entry for R W Rodger Capt E L Besley
Additional entry for Clan Robertson (2)
New entry for Ruggles Brady
22 Feb 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Glyn Lewis
Update to Comm Thomas Noble
23 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Paddy Harden
25 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Ships
Updates to Philip Arrand Capt Alan Freer and Eddie Gie-Hamilton
Update to Clan Ramsay
26 Feb 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
Clan Line Ships
British & Commonwealth Staff
A final farewell to Reina Del Mar
New entry for Eric Talbot
Retirement of Capt T Halliday
Final voyage on Southampton Castle of Capt Michael Ure
Update to Capt J D W Chapple
Loading china clay at Fowey on Clan Ross (2)
Experimenting with helcopters on Clan MacNair
Planning the future of Cadet Training in 1976
27 Feb 2021
Safmarine Mailships
Union-Castle Line
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
A marriage in Cape Town for two officers from SA Vaal
The Centenary of The Weekly Mail Service in 1976
The retirement of Bosun Ben Jones The service record of Capt P Eckford
The first Blue Star Line master of Andalucia Star on charter to Union-Castle
The Purser’s Staff on the final voyage of Pendennis Castle
28 Feb 2021
Cayzer Irvine Ships
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Additional photographs of Causeway
Update to Capt James McCrone Capt C W B Mitchell
Update to Reg Wynter
New entry for C D Mitchell
01 Mar 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
Cayzer Irvine Ships
South American Saint Line Staff
King Line Staff
New entry for Paul Seviour
Update to Commodore Harold Deller
Update to Edwin Eddisford Capt G S Rowland Capt W C Rodger
Additional photographs of Bonnieway
Update to John Metcalfe
Update to Capt F W Moss
01 Mar 2021
Union Line Ships
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Houston Line Staff
Additional photos of Athenian
Update to Laurence Hollands Capt J Woodall
Around the World with Capt J H Wright
New entry for F J Roden Capt Thomas Forrett
Update to Sir George Christopher
Update to Capt S S Davidson
02 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Significant Persons
Update to Capt J Browne Capt P R Kent Capt A F Banks Capt W H Dalley Capt A S Palethorpe-May
Update to Charles Ross Capt K C Simpson
Update to Derek Wickenden Capt W R Andrews Edward Bloomfield
Update to Sir Charles Cayzer
03 Mar 2021
King Line Staff
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Castle Line Ships
Scottish Tankers Ships
South American Saint Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to John Stein
Update to Capt H Whitehead Capt F D Bonney Capt J L Jones Capt G W Spiller
Update to Capt R Lofts Capt S Hagan Capt W S Byles Capt T Heanley Percy Phillips James Pinkerton
New entry for R E A Thomson
Update to Garth Castle (1)
Update to Scottish Lion (2)
Update to Capt T Young
New entry for Roy Day
04 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Reunions
Clan Line Staff
King Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Capt John Howson David Klasen Dr Robert Newsom Nicol Robertson
New entry for Arthur Martin Stanley Tupper
Update to Balmoral Universal
Update to 1980 Purser’s Association
Update to Jimmy Harper Capt F H Turton
New entry for Capt Stanley Carter Reginald Hewitt Capt N Wallace
Update to Capt George Craig
New entry for Leslie Mitchell
05 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Bowater Staff
Update to Capt I W Bennet Capt M N Ure Capt I M Shearer Capt E Coultas Comm A J Hogg
Capt J McCrone George Morison Russell McLuckie William MacFarlane
New entry for Leslie German Charles Tingley
New entry for Paul Coultas Thomas Higginson
Update to Mark Coultas
Update to Capt J D Fisher
Update to Dover Castle (2)
Update to Capt W Bosanquet
06 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Union-Castle Line
Clan Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Edinburgh Universal Winchester Universal
A new and rather short lived venture East Africa Container Service with ships Sloman Mira and Tristan
Update to Capt I M Shearer
New entry for Ian Scott
07 Mar 2021
Castle Line Ships
Union-Castle Line
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
Clan Line Ships
King Line Staff
Update to Raglan Castle Hawarden Castle
Update to East Africa Container Service
Update to Robert Kerr Robert W Kerr
New entry for Capt G Emmett Capt E Taylor
Update to Thyge Enevoldson Capt J Currie Capt G Gann Capt N F Stewart
Update to Clan Allan
Update to Capt G A Russ
07 Mar 2021
Crew Lists
Clan Line Staff
New entry for 1912 - December
Update to James Smith Leslie Brown
08 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Alexander Coutts James Harper
New entry for Capt B Hardinge Norman Ives
Update to Capt A C M Black
09 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
10 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
King Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Capt J D Chapple Capt J K Currie Francis Briggs
New entry for Bill Askew
New entry for Herbert Johnson Alexander Currie
Update to Marcus Bain Thomas Brown Arnold Forster Phillip Nicholls Arthur Newbury Leslie Walker
New entry for Bertram Atkinson
New entry for Ian Doyle
11 Mar 2021
British & Commonwealth
British & Commonweakth Staff
Castle Line Ships
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
Update to The Falklands Conflict
New entry for Robert Ward
Update to Kinfauns Castle
Update to Capt P St Q Beadon
New entry for Tom Drysdale
Update Capt F G King
12 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
King Line Staff
Clan Line Staff
Bullard King Staff
Update to George Crimble Eddie Sheath Albert Turpin Barney Rice John Tuck
New entry Henry Hawken George Tomkins
Update to Armadale Castle
New entry Charles Lavis
Update to Capt C M Powell Robert Buchanan Capt J H Crellin Capt T Kirby Capt J J Millar
New entry Tommy Sneddon
Update to John Nevin
13 Mar 2021
Union Line Ships
Bullard King Staff
Union-Castle Staff
King Line Staff
Clan Line Staff
Update to Tartar
Update to Capt W H S Hall
New entry Capt J E McDermott
Update to Capt W R Carr Capt J P Aplin Tom Peake Archie Pitt Capt A T Underdown
New entry John Archdeacon
Update to Capt J Lewis
Update to Gavin McDougall
14 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
New entry Capt A Terras Ron Hayton
Update to T T Johnstone
New entry John Dingle
Update to Thomas Martel
15 Mar 2021
Reunions
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
B&C Significant Events
Update to 1983 Purser’s Reunion
Update to Capt D T Griffiths
Update to Ben Jones
Update to Llangibby Castle
Update to The Falklands Conflict
16 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Union Line Ships
Bullard King Staff
Update to Arthur Fisher Bernard Higgins Capt T A Watkinson Capt J West George McCall John Waring
New entry John Godwin Alexander MacLeod
Update to James Lyon Capt F Pye Arthur Warren
New entry Alfred Lobban
Update to Cambrian
Update to Herbert Hall
16 Mar 2021
Clan Line Staff
New entry Capt Ross MacIntyre Harry Aimer
Update to Capt Frank King
17 Mar 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Clan Line Staff
Overseas Containers
New entry John Ashlin
New entry Don Heard Capt Keith Windram
Update to Henry Stuart
Update to Galician
New entry James Gauld
Update to Alex Johnston
New entry New section on OCL
18 Mar 2021
Castle Line Ships
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Dunvegan Castle
Update to John Chalmers Fred Harrison Capt H Landless David Mailer
Update to Capt F Lionnet Capt J H Wright
Update to George Martyn
19 Mar 2021
Union Line Ships
Overseas Containers
British & Commonwealth
20 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Clan Line Staff
B&C Significant Persons
Update to D G Bristow Alick Carey Frederick Young Ernest Brown Charles Farr
Update to Stirling / Speedster Universal
New entry Dickie Rex
Update to Frank Ovenstone Capt L Gibbins
New entry John Gunn
21 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Clan Line Staff
Castle Line Ships
Bullard King Staff
New entry Ronald Strugnell
Update to Joseph Purkiss Capt G Bidwell Robert Brew Alfred Churchill Capt T Whatley
Update to Dunnottar Castle
New entry Richard Bowtell
Update to William Gear Tommy Johnstone
Update to Conway Castle
Update to Capt F O’Hea
22 Mar 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
New entry Bruce Ross-Smith
23 Mar 2021
Bowater Staff
King Line Staff
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Capt D Lockhart
Update to Capt A J MacInnes
Update to Thomas Morrice Capt R Simmons
Update to George Watson
24 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Union-Castle Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Braemar Castle (3)
Update to William Boreland Capt E E Everitt Bill Taylor
Update to Arthur Eastoe
25 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Charles Farr Peter McTaggart
26 Mar 2021
Overseas Containers
Union-Castle Staff
Scottish Tankers
Clan Line Staff
Update to OCL Home Page
New entry Heather Sinclair
Update to Scottish Tankers Home Page
New entry Capt G Trowsdale
27 Mar 2021
Bowater Ships
Bullard King Ships
King Line Ships
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Nina Bowater and Phyllis Bowater Delivery press releases
Update to Umtali (2) New photograph of her in The English Channel
Update to King William (2) Discharging at Europoort
Update to Reina Del Mar First Caribbean cruise in 1973
28 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Overseas Containers
Update to Capt D A Rees Bill Taylor
New entry Mike Moore
Update to Windsor Castle Comes to the aid of a Danish tanker in 1972
Update to OCL Home Page The Australia Service in 1971
29 Mar 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Ships
Castle Line Ships
30 Mar 2021
Union Line Ships
Crew Lists
Bowater Ships
Overseas Containers
Clan Line Ships
Update to Trojan
Update to 1969 - August
Update to Alice Bowater
Update to OCL Home Page The Maiden Voyage in 1969
Update to Clan Ramsay
31 Mar 2021
Clan Line Ships
Union Line Ships
Crew Lists
01 Apr 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
02 Apr 2021
Clan Line Staff
Scottish Tankers Ships
Union-Castle Ships
Hector Whaling Ships
Bowater Ships
Castle Line Ships
Update to Francis Liddle
Update to Elbe Ore
Update to Kenya Castle
Update to Hector Hawk
Update to Sarah Bowater
Update to Windsor Castle (1)
03 Apr 2021
Clan Line Ships
Union-Castle Staff
King Line Ships
Union Line Ships
04 Apr 2021
Union-Castle Staff
New entry John McFadyen
06 Apr 2021
Clan Line Staff
Update to Tony White
08 Apr 2021
Company Register
Clan Line Staff
Digitised crew lists have been added to WW2 casualties
WW1 casualites are in progress
New entry Commodore C E O’Byrne
Update to Capt C C Parfitt Clan Line Commodores
13 Apr 2021
Company Register
Digitised crew lists have been added to War Casualties
15 Apr 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Harold Riddell
20 Apr 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Crew Lists
A large number of “Staff Pages” contained very little information. These are now being removed with the persons known data being entered in the “Information Required” sections.
If more information is discovered then a page can be reopened for that person.
Update to Anthony Spencer
Crew List for the maiden voyage of Edinburgh Castle
Update to 1948 - December
27 Apr 2021
The process of removing pages with very little information is now complete. Those names affected can now be found under “More Information Required” for each company. If more is forthcoming then a dedicated page will be added.
30 Apr 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Information Required about Richard Garioch an engineer aboard Pretoria Castle in 1950
01 May 2021
Crew Lists
New entry 1955 - July
02 May 2021
Scottish Shire Line Ships
Suspected sabotage aboard Buteshire in Buenos Aires
A record breaking voyage of Lanarkshire
03 May 2021
Clan Line Ships
Crew Lists
Update to Clan MacKinlay (1)
New entry 1928 - January
04 May 2021
Union Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
Update to Capt J D Jeffries
New entry Andy Roots
07 May 2021
King Line
King Line Ships
A general tidy up to most entries
New entry Manitou Park
09 May 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
British & Commonwealth
Castle Line Staff
11 May 2021
Castle Line Staff
Update to Castle Line Staff
12 May 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
B & C Careers
Reunions
13 May 2021
B & C Careers
15 May 2021
Clan Line Staff
Update to J P Allan
16 May 2021
King Line Staff
King Line Ships
New entry Isaac Wilson
Update to Boldwell Lord Byron
17 May 2021
Clan Line Staff
British & Commonwealth Staff
New entry Roy Innes
New Entry Chris Finch
19 May 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Photographed in KGV London Kinpurnie Castle
Being transformed for troopship duties Windsor Castle (2)
The design and construction of Windsor Castle (3)
21 May 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
New entry Frank Barritt
24 May 2021
Crew Lists
New entry 1914 - February
Update to 1961 - April
25 May 2021
Crew Lists
New entry 1955 - April
Ongoing updates to voyage particulars to lists c WW1
28 May 2021
Crew Lists
Update to 1950 - January
Ongoing updates to voyage particulars to lists c WW1
29 May 2021
Clan Line Ships
A party of British members of parliament travel aboard Clan Matheson for the opening of the Keil Canal in 1895
31 May 2021
Crew Lists
Several additions and updates to Crew Lists
04 Jun 2021
Castle Line Ships
A southbound voyage as a troopship for Tintagel Castle (1)
06 Jun 2021
Donald Currie Ships
New entry Britannia for Leith, Hull & Hamburg Service
09 Jun 2021
Donald Currie Shipping
Update to Sir Donald Currie
12 Jun 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Warwick Castle (3) the first mail ship to berth alongside in Port Elizabeth
13 Jun 2021
Crew Lists
New entry 1956 - June
14 Jun 2021
Clan Line
The Evolution of The Clan Line Fleet
16 Jun 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Capt F Pye
17 Jun 2021
All Companies
Castle Line Ships
Comparisons of Fleet Sizes in each Decade
Update to Dunrobin Castle
18 Jun 2021
Bowater Ships
Photographs of the Bowater Newfoundland Ships Waterton and North Brook
New entry Sandland for Bowater Canada
22 Jun 2021
Crew Lists
Rearrangment of Crew Lists into months the voyages commenced.
Now complete
07 Jul 2021
B & C Documents
New entry 1975 Engineers Pay Scales
06 Jul 2021
Crew Lists
Adding pre WW1 Crew Lists
Now completed, contains records of vessels registered at Southampton.
08 Aug 2021
Clan Line Ships
Photograph of the officers of Clan Alpine after running ashore in East Pakistan.
31 Jul 2021
Union Line Ships
Union-Castle Staff
The launch of Galeka in October 1899
A picture and war time service of Capt J E R Wilford
09 Aug 2021
Houston Line Ships
A photograph of Hellenes (1) in later life
The loss of Hermione in April1917
14 Aug 2021
Union Line Ships
Crew Lists
The final voyage of Cecil John Rhodes aboard Briton in January 1902
New entry 1933 September
16 Aug 2021
Union Line Ships
A group photograph of the officers of Norman in 1896
18 Aug 2021
Clan Line Staff
Update to Capt Philippe de Gruchy
New entry Archibald MacDiarmid
19 Aug 2021
Bullard King Ships
Union-Castle Staff
A water colour by Colin Verity of Umtali (2)
Photograph of Capt Arthur Patey
20 Aug 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Capt S H Owen
25 Aug 2021
Union Line Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Capt B Burt
Update to Glenart Castle and Llandovery Castle (1)
06 Sep 2021
Union Line Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Capt E A Sylvester
Update to Llandovery Castle (1)
07 Sep 2021
Union-Castle Ships
08 Sep 2021
Union Line Staff
New entries Sir William Berry
11 Sep 2021
Castle Line Staff
Update to Tantallon Castle (2)
12 Sep 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Stirling Castle
13 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Service in The South African Wars Dunottar Castle and Roslin Castle
14 Sep 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Crew Lists
16 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Update to Pembroke Castle regarding a fire in Cape Town in 1889
17 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Union-Castle Ships
Crew Lists
Update to Pembroke Castle regarding service in The Boer War in 1899
Update to Melrose
Update to Warwick Castle regarding her loss in 1942
Update to 1942 - Nov
18 Sep 2021
Clan Line Ships
Update to Clan Campbell (1) regarding her loss on the island of Mauritius in 1882
21 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Update to Kinfauns Castle A press article about her grounding off The Isle of Wight in 1902
23 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Clan Line Ships
Update to Walmer Castle Service in the Zulu War of 1878/9
Update to Clan Stuart (3) Her sinking in the English Channel in 1940
24 Sep 2021
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Ships
Update to Capt Richard Olden
Update to Balmoral Castle
25 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Union Line Ships
26 Sep 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Update to Capt Sammy Hagan
New entry William Hagan
29 Sep 2021
Crew lists
Clan Line Ships
Update to 1911 - Feb
Update to Clan Ross (1)
30 Sep 2021
Castle Line Ships
Update to Balmoral Castle Life after Castle Line
01 Oct 2021
Scottish Tankers Ships
Crew Lists
Union-Castle Staff
Union-Castle Ships
South American Saint Line Staff
Update to Scottish Ptarmigan On her maiden voyage in 1958
Certificates and Promotions for 1960 - Nov
Update to Les Cooper-Thorne and Noel Pugh
Update to Southampton Castle The award of the building contract
New entry R L Williamson
04 Oct 2021
British & Commonwealth Staff
Bowater Staff
Update to Mervyn Griggs
Update to K A Liddle
05 Oct 2021
Reunions
British & Commonwealth
Clan Line Staff
Union-Castle Staff
Attendees at the 2021 Clan Line Reunion
A booklet World Travel by Cargo Liners
Update to Capt E W Jenkin Ian Stuart
Update to Peter McTaggart
08 Oct 2021
Crew Lists
Update to 1971 - Nov
09 Oct 2021
Union-Castle Staff
New entry E Rouse
Update to Capt W R Carr
12 Oct 2021
Clan Line Ships
Reunions
Union-Castle Staff
A press article about Clan Malcolm (1) being involved in a collision in 1921
A series of pictures taken by Davy Dawson of attendees at the 2021 Clan Line Reunion
New entry Ronald Davies
15 Oct 2021
Union-Castle Ships
Clan Line Ships
Update to Stirling Castle Farewell
Update to Clan Ross Maiden voyage
16 Oct 2021
Union-Castle Staff
Clan Line Staff
19 Oct 2021
South American Saint Line Staff
General tidy-up to Saint Line Staff
21 Oct 2021
