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G'day Jim,
yes, No.5 was aft of the accommodation with a 5 ton crane. She was designed to carry palletised cargo and had I think 4 tweendecks plus the lower hold. The upper tweendeck ran full length. All tween decks were hydraulic. There were also elevators to handle palletised cargo situated below the mast houses. The cargo could be worked to large gun port doors in the ship side. All in all, a very handy vessel.
I never saw this ship looking too shabby. The Chinese painters did their job well. They looked after the ship side and the accommodation, inside and out.
Regards, Roy.
yes, No.5 was aft of the accommodation with a 5 ton crane. She was designed to carry palletised cargo and had I think 4 tweendecks plus the lower hold. The upper tweendeck ran full length. All tween decks were hydraulic. There were also elevators to handle palletised cargo situated below the mast houses. The cargo could be worked to large gun port doors in the ship side. All in all, a very handy vessel.
I never saw this ship looking too shabby. The Chinese painters did their job well. They looked after the ship side and the accommodation, inside and out.
Regards, Roy.
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Partly because I was foolish enough to go and get married in 1970, I never even saw, let alone photographed, this Ben-boat.
By the time I moved to Gravesend in 1976 - to my house overlooking the Thames - the regular, Sunday, Ben Liner arrival in London was a thing of the past. I can't remember where the Bens went, except the box-boat BENALDER to So'ton.
The Singapore bumboat stirs some memories, though. I had a regular for photo-trips around the anchorages in my time there in 1985. I think I recall that 30 Singapore Dollars (about £10) an hour was the charge (all on expenses, of course) but with almost-unlimited cans of cold Coke included. I do remember that the bumboat's name was Brown-Boveri (as in turbochargers).
By the time I moved to Gravesend in 1976 - to my house overlooking the Thames - the regular, Sunday, Ben Liner arrival in London was a thing of the past. I can't remember where the Bens went, except the box-boat BENALDER to So'ton.
The Singapore bumboat stirs some memories, though. I had a regular for photo-trips around the anchorages in my time there in 1985. I think I recall that 30 Singapore Dollars (about £10) an hour was the charge (all on expenses, of course) but with almost-unlimited cans of cold Coke included. I do remember that the bumboat's name was Brown-Boveri (as in turbochargers).
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