BENCRUACHAN (1968)

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BENCRUACHAN (1968)

Postby northeast » Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:22 pm

.... or BENCRACKING after her encounter with a freak wave off South Africa, seen here in July 1973 patched up before going to Rotterdam for a new bow.
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Re: BENCRUACHAN

Postby Leith Lass » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:02 am

These photos bring back memories!! My late father was a catering officer with Ben Line. Although I was very young when this happened to the Bencruachan, I still remember it being talked about for years afterwards.

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Re: BENCRUACHAN

Postby northeast » Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:16 am

They had a very lucky escape, several vessels have lost bows and some sunk in the waters off Cape of Good Hope .... seem to remember reading that there is a sensitive range of latitude where the end of the continental shelf meets the South Atlantic seas and results in freak waves, so best route is to stay inside or well outside that belt.
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Re: BENCRUACHAN

Postby HSA31 » Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:35 am

The bow looks fine, but what about the funnel ???? In Liverpool 1977.
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Re: BENCRUACHAN

Postby northeast » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:33 pm

Well caught, I did not know she got the Blue Flue, product of the Ben-Ocean combine no doubt. I suppose we did get some BF's and Glens in Hull as a swop for allowing a Ben to visit liverpool!
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Re: BENCRUACHAN (1968)

Postby teesships » Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:01 pm

BENCRUACHAN (6814829), Ben Line Steamers Ltd., 12092gt,
completed Charles Connell & Co., Scotstoun, Glasgow, 9-1968
BU Kaohsiung, work began 16.5.80 [Chin Tai Steel Enterprise Co]

Albert Weller caught her sailing from Tees Dock, circa May 1972:
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Re: BENCRUACHAN (1968)

Postby magoonigal » Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:43 am

No doubt about it, She looks much better with Yellow Funnels!

Zee Blue one's do nothing for her!
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Re: BENCRUACHAN (1968)

Postby teesships » Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:04 pm

It was the BENCRUACHAN I had in mind in talking about getting stuck in the lock, and I am grateful to John and Tony for their confirmation, and recollections, under BENALBANACH at: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=11773

Tony. It was pilot DW who told us the story at a Ship Society meeting some years ago, so probably he was the senior pilot? What puzzles me is that, so far as I can recollect, the date he gave, and repeated I think by Doug Hellyer in his pilotage history book was later than her first visit to Middlesbrough Dock on her maiden voyage. If so, she had already been in and out without difficulty? Just wonder if your log can tie down the actual date?

My own photos. Middlesbrough Dock - 27 September 1968 (maiden voyage):
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Liverpool - 8 July 1978:
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Re: BENCRUACHAN (1968)

Postby teesships » Thu Sep 27, 2018 3:07 pm

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

New scans from original negatives. Middlesbrough Dock - 27 September 1968:
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Hard to credit it is now 50 years since I first saw what seemed to me to be a most modernistic ship for her day!

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