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.

Service Record

From

To

Clan MacIlwraith

3rd Engineer

8/1949

7/1950

Clan MacLachlan

3rd Engineer

9/1950

9/1950

Clan Forbes

3rd Engineer

9/1950

10/1950

Clan Cameron

3rd Engineer

10/1950

11/1950

Halizones

3rd Engineer

11/1950

3/1951

Clan MacAulay

3rd Engineer

5/1951

6/1951

Halesius

3rd Engineer

7/1951

7/1951

Clan Alpine

3rd Engineer

8/1951

9/1952

Clan Allan

3rd Engineer

12/1952

1/1953

Clan Kenneth

3rd Engineer

1/1953

9/1954

Clan MacAulay

3rd Engineer

9/1954

10/1954

Clan MacBrayne

3rd Engineer

11/1954

1955

Ralph Bannister

Port

Arrive

Depart

Remarks

Glasgow


9/11/50


Liverpool

10/11/50

22/11/50


Suez Canal

5/12/50

5/12/50


Port Sudan

9/12/50

11/12/50


Massowa

12/12/50

13/12/50

Also known as Misiwa in Eritrea

Aden

15/12/50

16/12/50


Bombay

23/12/50

28/12/50

Now Mumbai

Galle

31/12/50

6/1/51

Galle, Ceylon now Sri Lanka

Mormugoa

12/1/51

16/1/51


Kozhikode

18/1/51

18/01/51

Also known as Calicut, a city in the state of Kerala in Southern India. Population today is over 2 million

Cochin

19/1/51

22/1/51

Now known as Kochi, western India also in the state of Kerala.

Alleppey

22/1/51

23/1/51

Now known as Alappuzha, again in Kerala

Tuticorin

24/1/51

26/1/51

Now known as Thoothukudi in the state of Tamil Nadu

Cochin

27/1/51

30/1/51


Aden

6/2/51

6/2/51


Suez Canal

11/2/51

12/2/51


London

25/2/51

6/3/51


Antwerp

7/3/51

10/3/51


Glasgow

14/3/51



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

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