Kiwi One
24th April 2009, 07:19
The article about the U-C cargo ships prompts me to write. Does anyome remember the Fort Carillon? UCMSCo managed her when, in 1948/49 I did an eight-month voyage around Africa from London, calling, in order, at Genoa, Suez Canal, Port Sudan, Aden, Mombasa, Tanga, Pemba, Zanzibar, Dar-Es Salaam, Lindi, Mikindani, Beira, Lourenco Marques, Durban, Port Elizabeth, (where loaded a full cargo of bombs) Abu Sultan and Adabiya, (Suez) Mombasa, Beira, L.M., Durban, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay, Hamburg, London. How's that for an intimate knowledge of the African coast? I met my wife in P.E. and we are still together after 60 years.
The skipper was Captain A.C.M. Black, a real gentleman and much admired by all hands.
When we were in port with a UCMS pasenger ship, we had to haul down our house flag. With a black hull the poor old Fort Carillon couldn't be associated with the lavender-hulled elegance of the mailships and the"intermediates"!
The skipper was Captain A.C.M. Black, a real gentleman and much admired by all hands.
When we were in port with a UCMS pasenger ship, we had to haul down our house flag. With a black hull the poor old Fort Carillon couldn't be associated with the lavender-hulled elegance of the mailships and the"intermediates"!