Photographs were taken by Cadet Graham White

Inspite of attempts to research containerised shipping the company failed to grasp the significance. What a shame.

Review - August 1967

Review - February 1969

Review - June1969

Left to Right:   Eng ?, Eng ?. Cdt. Gary Watson-Wood, Cdt. Simon Alsop,

2/O T.Hazelton, T/O Ian Ferguson, Cdt. Steve Pink, Cdt. Andy Hill.

Left to Right:   Cdt A. Papworth, Cdt. ?. T/O Ian Fergurson. Cdt. Deny Kalua.

Cdt. Pete Diggins. (behind Bar, Cdt ?). Cdt. Simon Alsop. Cdt. ?. Cdt Andy Hill

Left to Right:   T/O Ian Ferguson. Cdt.?. Cdt. Gary Watson-Wood,

Cdt. Dany Kalua. Cdt. Simon Alsop.

Left to Right  : 2/O T. Hazelton. Cdt. Alan Papworth. T/O Ian Ferguson.

A quiet evening with:- Left to Right:  Peter Diggins, Gary Watson-Wood,

Simon Alsop,  Francis Chilalika, Steve Pink, Al Papworth and Billy Maulana.

Simon Alsop and Pete Diggins, pre-dinner drinks!

Lifeboat drill in Durban, 1971.

Steve Pink in the clean boiler suit,

Back view of Ian Ferguson (TO), and Al Papworth holding onto the man-rope

Facebook discussion - April 2020

Tony White    These are the pictorial stories that didn't arrive back in Head Office where one assumed life in the Cadet Units was one of sublime innocence. If only !!

Chris Isaac    The only way one becomes older and wiser is by doing what one is not supposed to be doing.

Tony White    Precisely, particularly as a T.O.; there were times to intervene and times to turn a blind eye and pretend one hasn't seen!! Amazing how young minds learn to cover up the mess that they've got themselves into, but today would H & S have intervened and destroyed the learning curve of life?

Chris Isaac    By the time one gets to Chief Officer it is essential that one has learned to cover up one's own mess

Clansman - April 1972

The 1974 intake

From left to right: Steve Harris, Mark Stevens, Colin Williams, Howard Jones Cadet Training Officer, Jim Sweetman, Ian Shillito, John Hosty and Pete Whittle.

Clansman - April 1974

Clansman - April 1975

Clansman - October 1975

From ex Cadet Training Officer Tony White

There is an editorial error going back to the Review.

Under the Clan Matheson entry, a super picture of the ship, but the posting from the 1975 Review states this is the first mixed cadet unit. The first refers to A. Bloor, the first Engineer to be a Training Officer, and not to the cadets. I had the first mixed unit of 5 Deck and 6 Engineer Cadets on the Menzies, sailing from Birkenhead on 30th August 1969.

The crew list shows the deck and engineer split.  I also note as an aside that this was Author John Guy's first trip.

It would have been interesting to know how that combination worked.  

During my time, the engineer cadet's practical work in the engine room was directed by a combination of the Chief and Sen. 2nd. Engineers. Did Mr. Bloor find himself directing the overhaul of derricks sat aloft, or swinging around on the end of a bosun's chair?

I suspect the Chief or 2nd Officers were lumbered with additional workload?

Clansman - February 1976

Clan Matheson was launched at Greenock on 26 August 1957 and was completed on 18 December 1957 and handed over to Clan Line Steamers.

The Clan Malcolm Class

These three motor ships were simply a diesel engined version of Clans Robertson and Ross. It was originally intended that they should have twin screws but this was estimated to cost and extra £150,000 compared with a single screw turbine ship. A rethink saw them redesigned first with turbines and then with a two-stroke Doxford diesel driving a single screw.

It is extraordinary that the order for these ships was placed in 1951 yet they were not delivered for a further six years.

They were the last Clans to have passenger accomodation.

From “Clan Line - Illustrated Fleet History”

From 1965 to 1976 she was used as a cadet ship

1978 Scrapped at Kaohsiung