Frank Holden

About 2700 built, about 300 were war losses. The props dropped off early in their life , from Sawyer and Mitchell's 'The Liberty Ships'...

Not unknown for them to just fall off. Company I was with in the early 70's had that happen to a 30,000(?) ton bulker in mid Atlantic...

Tree(Conspic) are also to be avoided.

Buy yourself a Brother P-Touch printer and some Tz/Tze tape, make your own. Lots of them on Ebay Dymo are crap by comparison. EDIT...

Try Chile 'In common with the rest of the Americas Chile is an IALA B country ( 'red right returning'). 'From seaward' is taken to mean...

I was going to say - but had chosen not to - that all the incident reports I had seen over quite a few years involving small ships in...

I was up for masters in London when the Royston Grange collision happened. In 1968 I had gone 'East of Suez' for the last time and...

1974. The gas tanker was inbound with propane, butane, and benzine(naptha?) The cargo ship punctured one of her benzine tanks which then...

You sound old enough to remember the Royston Grange / Tien Chee collision in the River Plate. 50 something years ago. The Yuyo Maru #10/...

I would expect a watchkeeping officer to be on watch even if the ship was in the Humber Deep Water Anchorage.

The 'hitter' is not a big ship, just a lowly feeder container ship. Registered in Madeira, Portugal's second registry, so probably not a...

Eyesight brings a lot unstuck - it's not just about reading an eye chart.

More than once I wished Carter was in my crew . You know - when the wind didn't blow and the ship didn't go ...

Oh I don't know. Ecuador was OK. I didn't see the boat for over two years but she was in good enough shape when I got back. Only took a...