Luminous (III)

My first ship as Chief Eng 1973. Derek

Ah, glorious Pielstiks unmanned engine room, wrapped stainless stell piping, non air conditioned control room, shaft driven alternators, Siemens switchboard and all this in 6 months of hell. Bar and cabins quite nice though. I remember it well though not fondly.

Cheers,
Nick Jones

(A) (A) I joined "Luny Mouse" in Jeddah in April 1974, as electrician, expecting to be on the wonderful RAZ to JAZ cruises but after 1 trip came back to Europe with load of Naptha. Walter Flett was skipper and I think John Hoy was C/eng. anybody know different or other names. In a period of 2 1/2 years sailed on sister ships Luminetta and Lumiere, all good ships and crew. I believe these vessels were similar to the BP River class vessels only with Pielstick engines, instead of B&W?, The original turbo chargers were a nightmare. When I was on it we sent a Deck apprentice from Lagos to Jeddah with a spare end case, for a sister ship, as hand luggage:- I don't know how the security and metal detectors would deal with that today.(Jester) (Jester) (Jester)

Alang ......solong......best place she ever went. I wonder what happend to the pielstick units? am amazed they ran till1999.....not a nice job