Clan Grant (4)

Voyage Notes - 1964

Life after Clan Line

As Enriqueta

The Launch - December 1961 &

Maiden Voyage - May 1962

Search for Missing Aircraft - 1966

Review - December 1966

From Andy Thomson - Engineer Cadet - 15 Feb 2021

I must confess to “taking time out” this morning for a short cruise through some of the contents and I am happy to say that I found a photograph I’ve never seen before of my father at a presentation on board “Windsor Castle”, and – the story of ‘Clan Grant’ being called upon to search for a crashed aircraft on a small island to the North of New Caledonia in the Pacific.

I was on board at the time!

We had been chartered by Messagerie Maritime for a voyage round Europe for loading, and discharge around Australia. Once done, and with an empty ship, we were short on stability so sailed East from Australia to Noumea in New Caledonia to load 3,000 tons of Nickel as a bottom weight cargo, but were interrupted by the French military who wanted us to play at aircraft carriers and take a helicopter North to another small island to search for the crashed aircraft.

Quite an experience but that’s a tale for another day (including us damaging the motor lifeboat!).

Master	Date	Left	Destination
W H Dalley	5/1962	Liverpool	E Africa
J de Garis	10/1962	London	Mauritius
	3/1963	Liverpool	S & E Africa
N F Stewart	6/1963	Liverpool	India
	11/1963	London	S & E Africa
	3/1964	London	S & E Africa
	8/1964	Liverpool	S Africa
	1/1965	Liverpool	E Africa
C A Thomas	6/1965	Liverpool	India
	10/1965	London	S & E Africa
	4/1966	Liverpool	Pakistan
	8/1966	Marseilles	India & Australia
H Walden	2/1967	London	S & E Africa
W Rodger	6/1967	London	S & E Africa
	11/1967	Liverpool	India & Pakistan
	5/1968	London	S & E Africa
W Keith	8/1968	Rotterdam	S Africa & Beira
W Rodger	1/1969	Liverpool	Australia
H Walden	6/1969	London	E Africa
	10/1969	Birkenhead	India & Pakistan
	4/1970	Newport	S Africa & Beira
	9/1970	Liverpool	India
	3/1971	Birkenhead	Beira
	7/1971	Genoa	Beira
G Russ	10/1971	London	E Africa
	3/1972	London	S Africa & Mauritius
S Hay	9/1972	Birkenhead	India
	3/1973	London	S Africa & Mauritius
	7/1973	Genoa	S Africa & Beira
T Parsons	12/1973	Birkenhead	S Africa & Beira
	6/1974	Birkenhead	E Africa
E Owen	3/1975
T Parsons	7/1975	Nacala
R Lofts	1/1976
R Will	3/1976	Genoa
	6/1976	Port Said/Suez
R Lofts	8/1976		Port Said
	2/1977		Cape Town
	11/1977		Aden
G Gowans	2/1978	Durban
R Bessant	11/1978	Suez Bay
T Parsons	4/1979	Manchester
	11/1979	Colombo	Manchester
K Morton	3/1980	Chittagong
R Fullarton	9/1980	Chittagong