During the late 60s - early 70s, China sometimes purchased ships, nominally for scrap, but were later discovered to have been used for trading. Because of the secretive nature of the regime at the time and photography being largely banned at Chinese ports, these ships were frequently only...
As I understand it, SS Marie Moller was a British-built salvage tug registered and owned in Shanghai by the beginning of WW2. As a family member was in the RNR as Marie Moller's engineer, I am assuming that the British Navy must have leased or contracted appropriate local vessels to be support...
Who remembers Mao's little red book.
When we were chartered to the Chinese Govt. in 1965 we were given a large box of these books to distribute to persons in ports we visited.
Next trip we told the Chinese that they were well received and could we have more this trip. We got quite a few boxes this t
Malta
1960's
Built as Texaco managed tanker China in 1938 for subsidiary company Balboa Transport of Panama.
Visited NZ 1938,1943,1944,1946
Sold 1949 and renamed San Pedro
Sold 1956 and renamed Blue Star
and rebuilt as Bulk carrier
1967 broken up Split
Launched on the 6th of November 2008 in Fuzhou, China. She is the fourth and last in the class to be delivered to NICO Middle East. She will join her sisters TOPAZ Jumeirah, Jebel Ali and Jaddaf at the end of January in Qatar.
Launched on the 6th of November 2008 in Fuzhou, China. She is the fourth and last in the class to be delivered to NICO Middle East. She will join her sisters TOPAZ Jumeirah, Jebel Ali and Jaddaf at the end of January in Qatar. She is a conventional 5,150 bhp AHTS.
Launched on the 6th of November 2008 in Fuzhou, China. She is the fourth and last in the class to be delivered to NICO Middle East. She will join her sisters TOPAZ Jumeirah, Jebel Ali and Jaddaf at the end of January in Qatar.
If you ever come to Nantong in China, I suggest you visit this place. (If it still there). There were numerus similar places along the road, all advertising different leisure activities.