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Thanks for posting. Any idea of the date ?

For a strange reason, this photo is excellent! The ship is very beautiful, probably it looks like a ship, and not like any square box! Thanks for sharing.

The golden years were coming to an end...thank goodness for the photos and memories...and a liver that held up!

There are loads of really appealing aspects to this photo. Nice clean lines, and what a selection of cargo handling gear. That crows' nest looks like fun in bad weather!

The walked out anchor, the staging rigged for maintenance,what chance now with elf n safety? The floodlight hung above it. But WHAT is written just right of the light above the fairlead?

I also love that they took the pride to pay that bit more to keep the house badge painted on the stem.I lost count of the number of times I argued in drydock to get the badge painted up on the bow of many ships I sailed in- owners went to the expense of having an huge steel badge made up and welded into place, but then the cost/time of having it repainted rather than just sprayed/rollered over seemed to be the deciding factor thereafter..............

One of the last of the line. 1967 (Time of building) was about the time SAA sent round the letters regarding OCL - which meant no more conventional ships would be built (and, in the longer term, the demise of the company - not good news if you were still a cadet thinking you had a job for life) . By the time the photo was taken the SSA Livery was changing to all grey. As you can see the buff masts and cargo gear are already grey and the overside stage could even be rigged to remove the white line! This class - like the Zealandic Class had flush hydraulic hatches in the tween decks for fork lift operation - perhaps a small step to faster cargo work. Yes good to see the stem badge was still being painted shows a chief officer, bosun and crew that wanted to keep up some of the old standards in pride for ones ship. Happy days - many thanks for posting.

Great photo of a Real ship,with beautiful lines.
Nothing to compare with the boxes of today as correctly wrote Finnpartner 1966.
Regards,
Lefteris.