Dunstanburgh Castle

If my memory serves me correctly she docked at Palmers on the Tyne after seatrials and the stern was cut away to allow the dock gates to close.

Hello---I think you may well be correct!!! Thanks-- the fog of time, rather than Fog on the Tyne!!!

They should have cut the whole ship away - "100 and odd thousand tons of ocean-going heartbreak"! I was going up for my 2nd's ticket at the end of the voyage and took some bearing clearances in case it came up in the orals. "Peak of the cap" was not an expression I could use in front of the examiner though, as the Gotaverken feelers fitted in including their case...

Greetings,

I went on board her in Palmers when she drydocked there and it was explained to me about the stern and the dock gates by some of the chaps then.

It is absolutely correct in regard's to the Stern's when Furness began to build the "Super's" . as they were built larger they took over the mantle of "Super". I believe the "Naess Parkgate" may have been the first to have her Stern chopped? and my old ship the "Har Addir" the second.