Re my fathers ships and my ships, I have photo's of them all. I also have a number of other photo's that I can send, eg. Clan MacGillivray in the Manchester Ship canal, Mv Causeway in Panama Canal.
Hope this is of use, I am off on holiday for three weeks but can send more stuff on my return.
Regards
Brian Bannister
Ralph Bannister served as 3rd Engineer
Tramping with Clan Line in the 1950’s
I was very intrigued what voyages my late father, Ralph Bannister, made with Clan Line in the 1950’s. After a visit to the archive centre in London I managed to source voyage records. I have put a couple of the trips he made in that time.
Strictly speaking the first was a Houston Line ship: Halizones – ex Clan Murray, the name changed to the former in 1949. My dad sailed a 3rd Engineer on her from 03/11/1950 to 14/03/1951, the following is the schedule according to the voyage log/card.
He joined the Clan Alpine as a 3rd Engineer in Dundee on 03/08/1951, this trip certainly a tramp!
Dundee – Charleston SC – Georgetown SC - Baltimore - Philadelphia – Boston, – New York – Trinidad – Cape Town – Port Elizabeth – East London – Durban – Lourenco Marques ( now Maputo) - Beira – Morombe, Madagascar – Tulear (now Toliara), Madagascar - Lourenco Marques – Durban – Mossel Bay - Cape Town – Lagos – Dakar – London – Manchester – Liverpool – arriving back in Glasgow on 15/09/1952
09/11/1950 Sailed Glasgow
10-22/11/1950 Liverpool
05-05/12/1950 Suez Canal transit
09-11/12/1950 Port Sudan
12-13/12/1950 Massowa, also know as Mitsiwa, a port on the Red Sea in Eritrea.
15-16/12/1950 Aden
23-28/12/1950 Bombay, now Mumbai
31/12/1950 – 06/01/1951 Galle, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
12-16/01/1951 Mormugao, Goa
18/01/1951 Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, a city in the state of Kerala in Southern India. Population today is over 2 million
19-22/01/1951 Cochin, now known as Kochi, western India also in the state of Kerala, also referred to as Ernakulam, which refers to the mainland part of the city.
22-23/01/1951 Alleppey, now known as Alappuzha, again in Kerala
24-26/01/1951 Tuticorin, now known as Thoothukudi in the state of Tamil Nadu on the South East Coast of India.
27-30/01/1951 Cochin
06/02/1951 Aden
11-12/02/1951 Suez Canal Transit
25/02 – 06/03/1951 London
07-10/03/1951 Antwerp
14/03/1951 Glasgow
Service Record
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From
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To
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Clan MacIlwraith
3rd Engineer
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8/1949
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7/1950
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Clan MacLachlan
3rd Engineer
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9/1950
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9/1950
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Clan Forbes
3rd Engineer
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9/1950
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10/1950
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Clan MacAulay
3rd Engineer
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5/1951
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7/1951
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Halizones
3rd Engineer
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7/1951
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7/1951
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Clan Alpine
3rd Engineer
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8/1951
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9/1952
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Clan Allan
3rd Engineer
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12/1952
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12/1952
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Clan Kenneth
3rd Engineer
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1/1953
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7/1954
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Clan MacAulay
3rd Engineer
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9/1954
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4/1955
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Clan MacBrayne
3rd Engineer
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10/1955
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