furness withy

One of the four 1:100 working models of Nova Scotia / Newfoundland.

Reference given to my grandfather by Norfolk and North American Steam Shipping Company Limited in 1910 when management of the line transferred from Simpson, Spence and Young to Furness Withy.

Reference to my father from Furness Withy in 1936.

This shipbuilders' model was auctioned in 2010 for GBP 26.978,00. Scale is 1:50 (312 cms) This ship is one of my favourites, so I intend to have 5 pcs made in half that size (scale 1:100) if I can find buyers for 4 pcs. Price indication GBP 1600 ex taxes.

Pacific Trader, Furness Withy.

Pacific Reliance, Furness Withy.

Pacific Ranger, Furness Withy.

Pacific Grove, Furness Withy.

Pacific Exporter, Furness Withy

Probably a Furness Withy vessel, photo I took on 17thApril1963 on a very wet day Mersey. Taken from Mersey Ferry with box Brownie.

Furness Withy ship, Mersey?

Slightly surprising use of words 'great' and 'brilliant' which I associate more with present-day modes of speech. The word 'gay', on the other hand, probably wouldn't be used in quite the same way today. Undated, but is clearly from the 1930s.

Already in a wartime coat of gray paint, Furness Withy Lines Monarch of Bermuda is seen leaving New York in late November, 1939. The liner had been requisitioned by the Admiralty and given her first wartime mission. She was ordered to leave New York and sail northward to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The

In which we served

Johnson Warren - Furness Withy ore carrier

Johnson Warren - Furness Withy ore carrier

Furness Bridge, on the the river clyde, 1971

with some of the crew from the furness bridge, heading up table mountain, capetown. 1971

me (on the left) with norman ross on the furness bridge, indian ocean, 1971

painting the funnel on the furness bridge, capetown, 1971