Clan MacGillivray (2)

From B&C Review October 1962

Clan MacGillivray - A Floating Test Bed

Does anybody remember the thunder boxes? The one in the photograph was on the Clan MacGillivray whilst at anchor off Kakinada, India.

The dhows laden with tea were towed out to the ship and the cargo was transferred using the ships derricks, the dhows thereafter sailed back to port.

The ‘dockies’ stayed onboard the ship on the deck, they brought everything with them including their cooking implements. The smell was unreal and we were constantly offered food from the dockies. Boats used to come alongside and offer live chickens or prawns in return for empty paint tins or small drums.

On one occasion a dockie was occupying the thunder box when a dhow had its sail up ready to return to port and a gust of wind got up, the mast of the dhow collided with the thunder box and the poor dockie had to scramble over the rail whilst in mid-motion!!

Brian Bannister

In spite of all the technology, some things refuse to evolve - The Thunderbox

As Clan MacBoyd

Life after Clan Line

Christmas - 1978

Christmas Eve 1978 on Clan MacGillivray,

left to right: K. Swarbrick (Deck Cadet), B. Fairclough (Eng Cadet), Steve Evans (J/2/E), Dave Smith (4/E), Chris(?) Whittle (Deck Cadet), Brian Bannister & G. Viner (3/E)

Review - June 1962

The Launch - May 1962 &

Maiden Voyage - September 1962

Italian Ski Party - 1966

Review - June 1966

Email received 27 October 2014

Hopefully attached is a copy of a 'football programme' that was compiled by James Dawson (RO on Clan MacGillivray), I think the game took place November/December 1978.

The officers were:

Chris Kelly, Electrician Brian Bannister, Junior Engineer Jonathan Tickner, Purser Simon Evans, Junior Second Engineer

Keith Swarbrick, Deck Cadet Chris Whittle, Deck Cadet Bill Fairclough, Engineer Cadet Phil Hooper, 3rd Officer

Phil Borley, Second Engineer James Dawson, RO Dave Smith, 4th Engineer William Ogg, Chief Engineer

Regards

Brian Bannister

Sporting Club Clan MacGillivray - 1978

Master	Date	Left	Destination
F H Petherbridge	9/1962	Liverpool	India
	1/1963	Middlesbrough	E Africa
	4/1963	London	E Africa
F J O’Hea	8/1963	Liverpool	S & E Africa
F H Petherbridge	1/1964	Liverpool	S Africa
	4/1964	Genoa	S & E Africa
	8/1964	Liverpool	S Africa
	2/1965	Liverpool	S Africa
	7/1965	Liverpool	S & E Africa
	12/1965	Liverpool	S & E Africa
	4/1966	Genoa	S & E Africa
	8/1966	London	S & E Africa
A Crawford	1/1967	Liverpool	S & E Africa
	6/1967	London	S & E Africa
	10/1967	London	S & E Africa
	2/1968	Liverpool	S & E Africa
	6/1968	Birkenhead	S Africa
	10/1968	Liverpool	Australia
	4/1969	London	E Africa
	8/1969	London	E Africa
	1/1970	Birkenhead	S Africa & Mauritius
	5/1970	Genoa	S Africa & Beira
	9/1970	Birkenhead	E Pakistan
G Russ	2/1971	Manchester	Persian Gulf
D Cornwell	8/1971	Birkenhead	Red Sea Ports
	12/1971	Genoa	E Africa
P Kent	5/1972	Birkenhead	Ceylon
	11/1972	London	E Africa
G Russ	3/1973	London	S Africa & Mauritius
H Thorn	8/1973	Southampton	S Africa
	10/1973	Birkenhead	S Africa & Beira
	3/1974	Glasgow	India
	7/1975	Dakar
	9/1975	Birkenhead
P Kent	1/1976
	3/1976	Durban
T Aitchison	6/1976	East London
	8/1976	Port Elizabeth
	11/1976		Port Elizabeth
S Hay	2/1977		Cape Town
	5/1977	Genoa
T Aitchison	11/1977		East London
R A Simmons	2/1978		Cape Town
	6/1978	Trieste
T Roberts	11/1978	Mombasa
R A Simmons	4/1979		Mauritius
W MacFarland	11/1979	Aden	E Africa
R A Simmons	3/1980		Colombo
R Todd	9/1980	Aden
	11/1980		Avonmouth
J Brackenridge	3/1981	Madras
A MacIntyre	6/1981	At Bombay