CARGO SHIPS AND FREIGHTERS OF THE 1960'S

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Күн бұрын

THE PORT OF ADELAIDE WAS VERY BUSY WITH SHIPPING IN THE 1960'S WITH LOTS OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES BRINGING THEIR CARGO SHIPS AND FREIGHTERS TO THE PORT. OF COURSE THIS AS BEFORE CONTAINERISATION AND WHEN AUSTRALIA WAS STILL VERY MUCH CONNECTED TO BRITAIN AND HER COMMONWEALTH NATIONS MAKING A HIGHLY VARIOUS TRADE POSSIBLE.

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@joaosergiojaksim8690 Жыл бұрын

GOOD TIMES NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!

@dieseldavetrains8988 3 жыл бұрын

Classic ships, derricks, accommodation amidships, beautiful lines, and not a 20 or 40 foot container in sight! My favourite is the Blue Star Line and Port Line ships. Didn't see any Bank Line ships, they were regular visitors to Australia and the Pacific islands in that era. Thank you for sharing.

@radiotelegram 2 жыл бұрын

It was another world and I am grateful to have known it before it vanished. Ships that had character and beauty manned by crews with more than a sprinkling of interesting eccentrics. Long port stays and a regular supply of shenanigans to contrast against the daily routine of passage life. It was special and we were there. Regards to you all.

@belhudson71 4 жыл бұрын

Great pictures of ships when ships looked like ships. Remember seeing many of these when I was at sea. Blue Star Port Line Blue Funnel etc. Such beautiful looking ships and a great time to work on them. Thanks for putting this up.

@TrainLordJC 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Some beauty to look at during these troubling times.

@FikretErdeniz 4 жыл бұрын

"..when ships looked like ships" I like this phrase. So true. It explains why I dislike today's box shaped container carriers or cruisers..

@_R-R 2 жыл бұрын

Good 'ol fashioned freighters. Beautiful ships.

@neilturner6865 3 жыл бұрын

Great Photos of real ships. Not those horrible container ships. I sailed on Blue Star P&O Fyffes Harrisons of Clyde. Still at Sea only a few trips left. 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳❤️ The Sea Miss the good old days

@trevorglasper2084 Жыл бұрын

No winters for me for five years down the pool pick a nice run goodbye till next spring

@rogerthorley2888 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant set of photos,from a time when we had a merchant navy. I actually sailed on one !!

@tonyjones99 20 күн бұрын

I was only on one of these, The Blue Funnel boat "Ixion" in 1969. Great ship and crew......

@bazza945 Жыл бұрын

As a coast radio station operator I worked two thirds of these ships on HF Morse code. Period mid 1960s to end of 1970s, most were gone by the 1980s.

@SpireUtd 5 ай бұрын

Grateful that I caught the back end of sailing on the British crewed traditional cargo liners. Joined 1976 & by 1982 they were all but gone! Happy Daze, sadly gone.

@TrainLordJC 5 ай бұрын

Yes unfortunately, so many sailors say the same.

@peterdixon7705 3 жыл бұрын

These photos are magnificent I love the way bollards and other port infrastructure is included gives character and perspective . I take photos the same way. I saw many of the ship's in the London docks in those days.👍👍👍👍👍

@MrThailik 3 жыл бұрын

They were great days

@kevinburke4081 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for putting these old ladies up

@rajasundaramjayanthan9571 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful vessels, so many hatches, derrick's and working gears, some of them , maybe steam ships.thanks

@buchanfoulsham6314 8 ай бұрын

Ahh wow. My dad sailed on Ceramic and the Helencrest, among others, back in the late 50s and early 60s.

@garyrolf4723 4 жыл бұрын

fantastic to see this i grew up in wills street and the port river were my stomping ground as a kid. thank you so much, many memories.

@TrainLordJC 4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, I wish I had grown up in that stomping ground. I would have gotten onto those ships as often as possible.

@ianpowell6443 3 жыл бұрын

8 min 28 sec Port St Lawrence, renamed 'Matangi'. My first ship when working for Cunard Brocklebank as a 19/20 year old Junior Engineer having served a shoreside apprenticeship with no marine experience. Flew to Abadan, joined in Khorramshahr then to Montevideo, Argentina. Sailed past Tristan da Cunha. Into Durban to fix a breakdown, back to the Gulf and then home from Kuwait. Then a tanker, ACT and ACL container ships. Last ship - Atlantic Conveyor. Made redundant 3 weeks before it was commissioned for the Falklands. 63 now, only 4 years at sea, experiences to look back on.

@twopremiers1801 4 жыл бұрын

I still have my discharge book and epaulettes from that great time

@mgtsmartlady 4 жыл бұрын

So have I , great memories on Port line ships

@andy98114 7 ай бұрын

My Dad took me on ( I think one of the Port ships) in the very early '70's, going down into the engine room, I was agog, a decade later I joined my first ship, and eventually became a Chief Engineer. Beautiful ship's, that are long gone to the breakers yard.

@TrainLordJC 6 ай бұрын

Great story. Yes I also wanted to go to sea when I was young as a Purser. It didn't happen but I did spend a year and a half on the Rhine River barges sailing to Germany, Switzerland, Holland and France, a good compromise.

@waynehumphries5806 4 жыл бұрын

Superb photography , bringing back great memories . Pity 2-3 of these vessels couldn't been preserved & traded in a roundabout to pay for running costs . One photo is a Wilhelmsen job I think - 2 blue rings ) Tarantel. Great stuff.

@geoffcrisp7225 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing ships like this in the old London Docks in the early 1960's as a kid ship spotting. The Blue Star line is one that I clearly remember.

@TrainLordJC Жыл бұрын

Yes they were indeed beauties. Enjoy your wonderful memories.

@bobnweaver 5 жыл бұрын

A superb collection of photographs. I remember many ships like this on the River Tyne but they look so much more elegant now looking back on them. Really nice with their curved features.

@TrainLordJC 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments. Most seafarers agree that this period was the best time to be in the seafaring industry. Beautiful ships with character, a great variety of visible loads, many days in port, parties with girls on board, no occupational health and safety, no hardhats, no safety vests and an all round possibility to get to know the cultures of the countries visited etc. No air conditioning meant doors to cabins were left open and more sailors socialised. I recently did two trips, one on a car carrier crossing the Atlantic Ocean for twelve days and one sixteen day voyage to NZ on a container ship. Both big ships had relatively small crews and both were air conditioned. More privacy, less social interaction, no on board parties with girls anymore because there is no more access to the port for such activities. One could go on and on!

@dilsonrosario9730 8 ай бұрын

8Boa noite !! Eu tou Chorando de ver esses navio dos Anos 1960 HoMy God

@petermcardle2031 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing 👍

@Ken-Kaef 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting those great photos. As a kid in the 1950s sometimes for a day out we used to go down to Pt Adelaide and wander around looking at the ships loading and unloading. Can you imagine being able to do that today?

@TrainLordJC 5 жыл бұрын

Ken I used to hitch-hike from Millicent just to see these freighters and sneak on board to wander around and dream of going to sea. It would have been a good time to do it back then because I think it was the pinnacle of enjoyment for seafarers in those days, not unlike today where so many other factors make it for a hard laborious job with much less time in port and no access for visitors and just the movement of containers or vehicles etc.

@awuma 4 жыл бұрын

Me too! IIRC, it was mainly on weekends in New Plymouth, when the wharfies weren't working, we could fish off the wharves and visit the ships when they were open for boarding. Both Saturdays and Sundays in those days were non-working days, I'm sure the crews appreciated that as much as the waterside workers, who were the labour aristocracy with their powerful union, even after the epochal strike of 1951.

@iannaylor782 11 ай бұрын

Not a single Bankline ship ,at that time the biggest privately owned shipping company in the uk ,55 ships !

@denisiwaszczuk1176 3 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the port i remember many ships as Father was fishing captain . Thank you

@MrJpsspecial 3 жыл бұрын

I remember sailing into Port Adelaide in 1969 on the MV Ingleton formerly the MV Thistleroy tramping all the way around Aussie & the far east for a whole year.

@peters6601 4 ай бұрын

I was on the Laurentic, sistership to the Britannic in the 70s. Last time onboard was 1978. Slow Starvation & Agony.

@carl24854 3 ай бұрын

I sailed in her too

@Wolf-hh4rv Жыл бұрын

Beautiful ships, today container platforms

@alanwann9318 10 ай бұрын

I admired port line /city boats in the Tyne for repair early 60,s

@manfredbaumer6650 3 жыл бұрын

Riederstein mein letztes Schiff vom lloyd,Australienreisen ,Kapt.Hans Wachtel,cap Hornier,eisenhart oft unnahbar,aber ein toller Seemann.Rest in Peace.Manfred Bäumer,Bremen

@michaelsharp1729 Жыл бұрын

The ships in this video named Carpentaria and Taraneil and Woodara were actually owned by British India Steam Navigation Company not British East India

@jamescrego5904 Жыл бұрын

In 1970 l sailed on the Eurygenes from Staten Island to London. She had a sistership and was owned by the Marchessini Line. Three year almost to the date she had an engine room explosion killing several crew members. She was towed to Halifax and from what I've learned sank while being towed. What's interesting is that we met her sistership almost in the middle of the Atlantic at midnight!!! She was heading to New York.

@awuma 4 жыл бұрын

1:12 "Canopic" was my favourite ship as a kid in the mid-50's.. I had a subscription to "The Motor Ship", and "Canopic" was featured in it, so of course I had to go down to my local port of New Plymouth, NZ, and visit it. It had such classic lines. I see several of the ships here also carried passengers. 1:28 The "Ceramic" was a sister ship of "Gothic", which frequently visited my home town and was famous for carrying the Queen. Some of the Port Line ships had nicely streamlined superstructures, such as "Port Adelaide" 7:13, though I best remember "Port Brisbane", a bit more bombastic in appearance.

@TrainLordJC 4 жыл бұрын

In 1970 as a young man while wandering around on board the Angelina Lauro in Adelaide I met a young girl who came from New Plymouth. This meeting inspired me to go to NZ which I did in July 1970 and I remember hitching a ride to visit her in New Plymouth and visiting the port there. I remember seeing the beauty of Mt Egmont. Lots of beautiful cargo freighters in those days sadly long gone, just memories linger.

@delinquentinparadise Жыл бұрын

I jumped a British tramp ship in 1960 at Newcastle Australia when I was 18 and stowed away on to NZ on the NZSS Co ship Kowhai spending 3 years in NZ and having a fair share of adventures. Eventually in 1963 I found a passage home on the Canopic from Auckland. and was known by the nickname Hawkeye. She was a good ship in every respect with a good crew and an excellent Captain. After a couple of years I found my way back to NZ via Canada and working my passage back to NZ on the Waihemo from Vancouver to Auckland. Still in NZ and have been married now for 58 years. Those were the days when it was good to be young and adventurous.

@flylooper 4 ай бұрын

Those ships are beautiful by accident, not by design. There is just something so satisfying in looking at one of these classic steamships. Functional yet beautiful.

@TERRYBIGGENDEN 3 жыл бұрын

TARANIEL shown here is a Wilhelmsen vessel. The two bands on the funner were light blue. CITY OF FARQUHARSON is CLAN FARQUHARSON. Lovely collection all the same. :-)

@ShipsoftheOceans 4 жыл бұрын

Good photo slideshow here well done.

@garypellerin5576 Жыл бұрын

Very first picture, SS Constitution State with aircraft deck cargo. How did they manage the two on three hold. Wonder if they overlapped the inboard wings of removed them? Great shot, thanks.

@denisiwaszczuk1176 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up on the river . good days .. Today nothing ..Thank you

@reccesixty6322 Жыл бұрын

Father worked for the Blue Star Line, so as a child got to know a lot of the names of the ships, plus a ride or two for a short distance.

@TrainLordJC Жыл бұрын

That would have been a great experience for you.

@thomaskeenan574 Ай бұрын

I'm overjoyed as I lost all my photos I served as AB on Ceramic,PortHobart, Wairangi,Rhodesia Star, Gothic on the NZ and Aus trips

@hurri7720 3 жыл бұрын

The Swedes made the best looking ships, sailed on two of them then long ago.

@allsquare5082 5 жыл бұрын

interesting video.loved it liked it.

@michaelhoran407 3 ай бұрын

When general cargo piers and stevedores at port of San Francisco still served Matson, APL and Pacific Far East Lines.

@Hannodb1961 3 жыл бұрын

Wish I was alive to see them.

@daviddouglas4200 2 ай бұрын

My first ship -- Theseus.........

@markmark2080 3 жыл бұрын

I recall arriving in 1966 at the delta of the river that took you up to Saigon via the Saigon River, we were anchored out with 30 or more of these beautiful old cargo ships waiting their turn to go upriver and unload supplies during the early "days" of the Viet Nam War. On arriving up on the Saigon River, there were ships anchored all along the stretch leading up into the city being unloaded onto hundreds of small local craft. The beauty of the multi colored ships, small craft, and cargo in the setting of bright blue sky, white popcorn clouds, GREEN "jungle", and brown river water is a sight that just burned itself into my memory. It's a shame a scene so beautiful had to be part of something so ugly as war.

@TrainLordJC 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I concur. Activities in the ports before containerisation would have been absolutely amazing to watch. Unfortunately I didn't grow up in a port town but I live next to a port now and it shows nothing of the old times. However there are many black and white photos that show the port in its heyday with full rigged barque and steam tugs, a sight missed by many seafarers I would imagine.

@gw2442 4 жыл бұрын

I sailed on sister ship of City of Dundee and City of Melbourne which was re named City of Cape Town, loved those old ships. The Cape Town could do about 31 knots flat out 12 RSAD Sulzer

@thesevenseas Жыл бұрын

Great compilation of beautiful ships! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards. Cheers.

@TrainLordJC Жыл бұрын

No problem, go ahead.

@thesevenseas Жыл бұрын

@@TrainLordJC many thanks!

@tomcharles8786 5 ай бұрын

...it is ' Clan ' Farquharson, ( not city of farquharson). I sailed on her and her sister Clan Ferguson.

@davidholman7340 3 жыл бұрын

Vessel at 4.08 is actually Jumna of Haine Nourse, master "Bungie" Paine.

@martinlloyd3617 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, quite correct. I joined Hain Norse in 1970 as a deck cadet and had a wonderful few years at sea. Hain Norse was a subsidiary company of P&O Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Jumna like many hundreds of other general cargo ships of other subsidiary companies like Strick Line, New Zealand Shipping and BI, to name a few were absorbed into one fleet known as the P&O General Cargo Division (GCD). This branch of P&O was formed in January 1971. At 10:28 is the Tekoa photo taken in the 1970's wearing the funnel colours of P&O GCD. Apologies to David Holman for hitching a ride on his entry

@jakobmarley1127 3 жыл бұрын

Attention, roughly in the middle of this video, there a freighter, you named Niederstein. This name correctly was RIEDERSTEIN of the former famous ship-company NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, also known as NORTHGERMAN LLOYD, which ended in 1970 due to fusion with HAPAG, since 1970 its together HAPAG-LLOYD. My reference, Sirs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@erlingandersen8008 3 жыл бұрын

poona burnt out in gotenborg. 1made died. i was at that time onboard panama, a sistership. belive it was 1971 or 72

@ralphbrown8115 Жыл бұрын

Seen many of them on the Clyde no merchant fleet left no shipbuilding left just giant barges with containers

@peterrees5861 2 ай бұрын

britain once had the biggest merchant navy in the world now what have we not many ships under the old red ensign

@AnsgarNeher 23 күн бұрын

Wo sind die Bananenjäger

@davidholman7340 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Hain

@trevorgraham-russell8559 4 жыл бұрын

These are all cargo liners, where are the true tramp ships which there were many?

@closed7234 3 жыл бұрын

Always some contrarian donk wtf?

@garynorton9938 4 жыл бұрын

Nice pics bad sound what's that God awful noise and chatter ????

@TrainLordJC 4 жыл бұрын

That was sound taken from somebody who worked on these freighters who recorded the ship at sea many years ago. I prefer the sounds of the sea or e ship's engine sounds rather than putting in music.

@garynorton9938 4 жыл бұрын

Oh ok my bad it does make it unique I I was born in 67