Iron Baron

This black and white photo of BHP's Iron Baron at Geelong was taken in the early 1950s by an old friend, Bob Sharp. This was one of a series of four, built at Glasgow in 1936-7, to a new BHP design with engines aft. Ian Menzies has posted a photo of the much later Iron Monarch, which closely resembles the livery of the Wilhelmsen ships. In that thread I commented that the earlier ships also had black funnels with two blue bands, but with iron ore red hulls and deep buff (or brown) superstructure, giving a rather sombre appearance.