Heading for Russia; Novorosisk. No it is not red paint on the deck.

A corner of the BP tanker's Turbine Room when out on trials.

3rd Mate (me) on the right, and 2nd Mate (Ted Charlton?) at the crews ramadan party on British Queen 1973

Yours truely on watch on the British Queen in 1973. Not as thin, and nowhere near as much hair nowadays!

BP Tanker Co Ltd 16.9.1959 Launched by J. Brown & Co (Clydebank) Ltd (Yard No 704). 12.1959 Completed and transferred to the Charter Co Ltd, London. 1972 Transferred to the BP Tanker Co Ltd. 8.4.1975 Arrived at Kaohsiung for demolition.

BP Tanker Co Ltd Built 1959

BP Tanker Co Ltd Built 1959 Broken Up 16.6.75. at Kaohsiung.

My one and only tanker, which I joined in Finnart and paid off in Falmouth on returning to the UK. She was the best feeder by a mile and had some real characters among the crew. There was Phony Tony, Manky Frankie, Rigor Mortis and Dougie the dog, but that's another story......