On-board Benavon passing through the Kiel Canal on-route to Gydinia, Poland.

On-board Benavon passing through the Kiel Canal on-route to Gydinia, Poland.

On-board Benavon passing through the Kiel Canal on-route to Gydinia, Poland.

On-board Benavon passing through the Kiel Canal on-route to Gydinia, Poland.

Navigation staff on-board Ben Line vessel Benavon berthed in Royal Victoria Dock, London.

Photo taken from the Benavon of what is believed to be Victoria docks, London.

Photo taken from the Benavon showing a busy dockside believed to be the Royal Victoria, London.

Steamships in 1965 off Gravesend with Ben Line's Benavon, Watkins Tug Napia and the Panamanian Liberty Albatros.

At Liverpool

benavon in shimizu japan.great view of mount fuji from here.

drydock,sakaide japan-1983

Ben Line

Ben Line

Ben Line

Sorry about the poor quality of the photo. Maybe someone can fill in the gaps to the missing names. A Kiwi in a Scottish ships' football team seems a bit out of place but I was probably only there for the free Ben Line T-shirt. Back L to R Gordon MacKay (D/Cdt.), Dave Keillor (Ch/Off.), Peter Birni

Benavon arriving at the Southampton container terminal 1974, next to the passenger ships. Guess who was on the wrong type of ship??

Not very much on the aft deck either. Hamburg to Southampton early 1974, a bonnie day crossing the channel to load up for the next voyage.

A rare sight on a container ship, an empty foredeck...!!! This was taken after a drydock in Hamburg in early 1974, crossing the channel to load up in Southampton. They were not happy ships to sail on as I was later to find out.

6/1930 Completed by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow (Yard No. 834) for the Ben Line Steamers of Leith. 5,872 grt 3,723 net 425 x 56 x 29' Triple expansion, 2,600 ihp by Rankin & Blackmore Ltd., Greenock. 12 knots. 11/9/1940 Sunk by gunfire of the German raider "KANDELFELS" (also known as &