As always Ian presents a polished and well-researched presentation, and we look forward to another show from the �Tilbury� series.
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| Meeting Report January 2006 | ||||
| At our meeting on the 2nd January Ian Wells showed us Part Two of his collection of slides, �Tilbury Shipping 1994�. We picked up where we left off last month with �Flecha� an ex Soviet ship on charter to Jordanian National Line and operated by Baltic Shipping. There were pictures of ships at the (then) new cold store; vessels included Green Reefer�s �Green Frost� bringing in a cargo of dog food, Chiquita Brenda with fruit from New Zealand and Galia Carmel (originally built for P&O [British India] as Zira) with a cargo of fruit from Israel. Ian�s interest in bulk carriers and tracing the voyage history of such ships began this year with the arrival and subsequent visit to �Dynamic� with a cargo of plywood and timber . Also delivering plywood to Tilbury were an array of Chinese bulkers. Bulkers were also shown at the scrap berth, Sanko�s �New Amethyst� was one such, loading scrap for Turkey. Ian had also been aboard �Al Yarmuk� which had loaded tractors for Syria, with hundreds of tractors old, very old and new (ish) on deck. In lay up were Lloyd Brasileiro�s �Lloyd Pacifico� and Nigerian National�s River Mada both of which spent many months in Tilbury. Other interesting ships viewed in the river and on the landing stage were Costa Allegra (originally the container ship Annie Johnson), the liberty ship Jeremiah O�Brien in European waters for the D Day celebrations, and the cruise ships Kareliya (ex Leonid Brezhnev, the present �CT Neptune�), and �Fedor Shalyapin� (Ex Cunard�s Ivernia). As always Ian presents a polished and well-researched presentation, and we look forward to another show from the �Tilbury� series. |
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