| Meeting Report April 2007 |
| Our meeting on 2nd April featured the tape slide show Ocean Voyages with Port Line compiled by John Gunning.
This was made in the �80s and featured ships from John�s collection taken throughout the 1970s. We took an imaginary liner voyage from the UK across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and then across the Pacific to North Island New Zealand. We travelled down the East side to ports on South Island and then across the Tasman Sea to ports on the south and west coasts of Australia before heading back to the UK via South Africa. John Gunning has a unique relaxed commentary which briefly outlined the history of the fleet and gave us a more detailed description of the Port line ships or those chartered in or out at various times. There were a good selection of pictures of (pre box boat) ships, which ran the liner voyages and views of the ports which they visited. Thanks to John for his slide show which considering it has been round the world is in remarkably good condition. |