Ships of the Sixties
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Autolycus leaving Port Swettenham,coastwise.
Glenlyon homeward bound off Portugal.
Pyrrhus swinging to a buoy in Port Swettenham.
Denbighshire outward bound in the Med.
Diomed in the Eastern Roads, Singapore.
Ulysses awaiting berth at Port Swettenham.
Tantalus - a Victory ship.
Menestheus in Hong Kong.
Priam leaving the berth in Birkenhead.
Protesilaus - the name lives on.
Containers - the beginning of the end.
Hebe a real Golden Oldie.
Panama Canal - ships passing.
Tanker in the Red Sea.
Matson Liner leaving San Pedro for Hawaii.
Lizzie carrying reliefs to the Ulysses in New York.
Migrant ship in Aden.
English River at Fort William, Lake Superior.
Laker also at Fort William.
Staten Island ferry New York.
Eastern Sail off the Ceylon coast.
Deep sea junk - on a placid China Sea.
Pop pop craft chugging through the anchorage at Kobe, Japan.
Trimaran in port in Borneo.
Trooper - mini version.
Amethyst on her lap of honour in Singapore harbour.
Boat people from Vietnam in 1949.
National Glory sinking in the China Sea in 1963.
Ulysses at sea - outward bound.
Lifeboat drill in the Sulu Sea, Phillipines.
Sampan in Hong Kong harbour.
Noon Ceremony aboard the Ulysses.
Quartermaster at the wheel.
* Test Match in mid-Pacific.
Job and Finish - painting the funnel.
Saturday Afternoon at sea in the pool.
Harry Tate. The Mate at work.
* Shipper's Party in Kobe, Japan.
* A lovely way to spend a morning.
* Chippy making schidt chutes.
* Topping derricks before arriving on the coast.
Officers' Bar in the Diomed.
Centaur Memorial at Burleigh Heads, south of Brisbane.
* Mama-san in a Kobe bar.
Rifleye's shop in Port Said.
Ship's numbers - her four letter identification code.
Pig Farm on the after deck.
A Bird in Hand in mid-Pacific
Silverpalm Model in San Pedro, Cal.
Creekside Village near Port Swettenham.
Up the Creek and making smoke.
Cattle from Djibouti to Suez.
Bunkering in Aden.
Race for the coin at Bohayan, North Borneo.
Loading logs in North Borneo.
Suez Canal - a tedious place to transit.
Abu Ail in the Southern Red Sea
Departure Cape Guardafui.
* Sunrise ...and sunset.
Under the bridge in the Cape Cod canal.
Collision damage at Singapore dockyard.
Ngoma in Jeddah harbour.
A dive in Bangkok
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