I remember that photo! What where you doing up in the crow's nest in middle of the night? I went up in Glenpark steaming through the Straits of Gib. Nav light failed at 0200 hrs! Cold and windy, but a beautiful view of the lights of Gib. No, didn't take a photo.
My two photos of SCOTSPARK from aloft. Ballast voyage Shields to Geelong 1971... 6 week passage. Lovely!
There was a great photo in Denholm News. SCOTSPARK and GLENPARK together in Duluth or Detroit? Someone pasted a large 'L' (learner plate) on the transom. I believe it was taken by a professional photo for the company and did not spot the 'L' until later!
Went up the Lakes in both of these ships. In those days these were the largest 'salties' to use the Welland Canal.
What year were you in SCOTSPARK?
Stephen
PS: The holds had been whitewashed before I joined before loading salt from Constanza. Looked clean, but when we were at Geelong to load grain the surveyors were not happy about the whitewash. It was flaking off and a bit of sweeping up was necessary. Note the grabs. They had been freshly painted. For the salt cargo the mates, Gerry Staub 2/O and Robbie Morgan 3/O had to load cargo... with the crew. The stevedores would not touch the grabs. The crew and the mates picked up a bit of overtime.
As built the grabs sat on cradles on the deck. It was found that some of the rams on the hydraulics were starting to rust. At Shields, new cradles were fitted and the grabs were kept 'open' and the rams were 'enclosed' and so did not rust. So... 1969 to end 1971 is one way to date a photo.
