Issue 1/2015 Volume XXIII No. 009

The Journal of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners

Livery Company of the City of London Founded 1926, Incorporated by Royal Charter 1930 Contents

Court of the Company Wardens and Court from 1 May 2014

MASTER Captain S S S Judah MBE MNI

SENIOR WARDEN Captain H J Conybeare

IMMEDIATE PAST MASTER Captain J W Hughes FNI MRIN

WARDENS Captain N F C Rodrigues; The Honourable Company Captain F K D'Souza MNI; Captain M Reed RNR RD* COURT OF ASSISTANTS of Master Mariners Commander P R F D Aylott MNI RN; Captain W J Barclay AFNI; Mr P J Blackhurst; Captain S Bland; Captain R B Booth; PATRON Captain D Chadburn; Commander L A Chapman RN; Her Most Gracious Majesty THE QUEEN Captain G R Cowap FNI; Captain I C Giddings; ADMIRAL Captain P T Hanton RFA; Mr J Johnson-Allen FRIN; His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Captain D L Kettlety FRIN, FNI; Captain R Nosrati; Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, KG KT OM GBE Captain T Oliver; Captain M M Reeves MNI; Captain R S Richardson FNI; Captain I A Smith FNI FRNI; FOUNDER Mr T Starr FNI RNR; Mr I P A Stitt; Captain S Taylor FNI RN; Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, Bt. Captain J E Tinney; Captain G M Pepper FNI; b. 1869 d. 1951 Captain T C Jewell FEI MNI; Captain J R Freestone MNM .

CLERK OF THE COMPANY – 0207 845 9871 Commodore Angus Menzies FCMI MNI RN – [email protected]

BUSINESS MANAGER – 0207 845 9872 Contents Mrs Alison Harris BA (Hons) – [email protected]

FINANCE OFFICER – 0207 845 9875 Company News Page 721 Mrs Penny Burningham – [email protected] SECRETARY – 0207 845 9873 Miss Patricia O'Reilly – [email protected] Latest News Page 730 RECEPTIONIST Mrs Phyllis Holder – [email protected]

Ports News Page 739 HONORARY CHAPLAIN The Reverend Reginald Sweet BA RN

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Company, and it was a good way to round From The Master off a very enjoyable year. We are sorry to re cord the death of Captain Sam Judah MBE the following members of the Maureen and I and some twenty-three of Honourable Company of Master our family and friends spent a very Mariners: enjoyable New Year’s Eve on board Wellington. We all enjoyed the good food •Mr Derek Sydney Bone, and wines, within the exquisite surrounds 4 December 2014 of the Ships Model room whilst there were •Captain T J Allard over one hundred and forty other guests 5 February 2015 enjoying the New Year’s Eve party in the •Captain Frederick Simon Angus RD*, Court Room and the Committee Rooms as 12 February 2015 well. The view of the fireworks on the Thames from the upper decks was once •Captain John Stuart Allen, again something extra special and will be 16 February 2015 remembered for a long time. •Captain George William Semark Miskin , After spending a very enjoyable time with 18 February 2015 all the family during the Festive period, •Commodore Gordon Gorick January and February has seen a steady Greenfield RD FRIN FNI RNR, ramping up of Livery events and I am sure 2 March 2015 as March and April approach and looking at the invitations flowing in, I will be kept very busy as I reach the finale. Congratulations to the following In the last issue of the Journal, I mentioned Amongst the Livery Dinners I was invited to on being sworn in as: entering the final strait of my term of in January, which were all very enjoyable, I Freeman: office, and for those Seafarers who have attended the Fuellers’ Dinner on board the Captain Keith Cederholm, Captain transited the Gibraltar Straits homeward- HQS Wellington. It is always extra special Trevor Harris, Captain Jon Feaver, bound, you will know what I mean when I when you get an invitation to attend Captain Jim Hayer, Mr Hugh O’Neill say that I have now got the “Channels”. another Livery function on board our own McCoy, Captain David Parry December last year was a very busy month Livery Hall as you get to show it off a bit Member: Mr John Fleming, for both Maureen and I. For Maureen and realise how lucky we are to have such Mr Nathaniel Phelps, Commander Chris wrapping Christmas (or Hanukkah) presents an amazing hall. We should all be very Baldwin, Lt Commander Conrad Blakey, for all the family, and for me it was proud of both our heritage and our ship. Mr Ashley Ryder, Mr Robert Taylor Christmas Lunches and Dinners all round. I also attended the Dinner of the th Associate: Mr Stephen Griggs, On the 8 December I attended the 100th Worshipful Company of Shipwrights and Ms Rachael Davidson, Mr Kieron Hughes anniversary thanksgiving service and was amazed to meet so many members reception for the naval battles of Coronel that I already knew. I was pleased to meet Apprentice : Mr Matthew Crozier, and the Falkland Islands of 1914. The two of my past bosses from OT Africa Line, Mr Joel Moxon former was won by the Germans and the the then Chairman and Managing Director latter by the British. More than 3,500 lives who were members of the Shipwrights and were lost in what was the earliest naval who I hadn’t seen since leaving OT Africa engagement of the Great War. Line in 1989. Being Master of the HCMM Representatives from both the German and has certainly given me the opportunity to the British Armed forces and other related renew old acquaintances and establish new organisations came together in a service of friendships. Again, this was true when I was remembrance at the St Martin-in-the Fields invited as a VIP guest of the British Church, and I was honoured to lay the Chamber of Shipping at their Dinner at the Wreath on behalf of the HCMM and Hilton Hotel, Park Lane. Here, I even remembering the Merchant Seaman who bumped into one of my Chief Engineers hand the diversity and benefit that is gave their lives for King and Country. when I was Master from the mid-80s. I afforded to many young children through Although the second half of December for didn’t recognize him, as he was not in his the legacy of Sir John Cass. The Wellington me was relatively quiet in Livery terms, I dirty old Boiler Suit but was wearing a Trust also benefits greatly from the attended a very enjoyable Lunch at the dinner jacket!! foundation spreading the good to all school children much beyond the school. invitation of the Master Warden of the Hull I was invited to the Sir John Cass Founders Trinity House, in Hull. It was good to meet Day on the 4 th February, attended by the I was delighted to visit the Bristol Channel so many Elder and Younger Brethren of the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and various other Outport on the 10 th February and both House who I knew well and spend some dignitaries and supporters of the Maureen and I together with the Clerk and time with the local civic dignitaries and foundation. We processed through the Paula enjoyed the warm welcome and organisations in East Yorkshire. The streets to the School Church and then hospitality afforded to us at the Yacht Club Christmas Lunch on the 19th December on attended a reception at the School hall. It in Cardiff. It was as always, good to meet board was also well attended and enjoyed was good to talk to some of the teachers so many members and their guests in such by many of our members and guests of our and pupils of the school and see at first convivial surroundings. I am grateful to www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 721 Company News

Captain Rooney who presented me with a Maureen looks forward to welcoming the Poole provides a slant on anti-piracy ceramic Poppy from Tower Hill and a ladies to the Mistresses lunch in April. initiatives and indeed the UK Chamber of certificate to commemorate the 100th However the event that both Maureen and Shipping also brief from their perspective. anniversary of WW1. He also presented a I are most looking forward to is our eldest The whole course runs for 4½ days. framed picture of the son of Howard son’s wedding on the 25 th April, the last of Briefs will be provided from Northwood Leopold Davis who was lost to the war. Our our four sons to get married. I can truly HQ, the FCO Piracy Desk (Gulf of Guinea), Charity still benefits greatly from this start saving up then! DfT and the UK Centre for the Protection legacy. The above artefacts are to be of the National Infrastructure (CPNI) and displayed proudly on board. European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR). Whilst I visit so many of the livery Clerk’s Corner Also a brief and buffet lunch will be companies, and participate in various Commodore Angus Menzies RN provided by the UK Chamber of Shipping. events representing the HCMM, I must Numbers as ever are always tight, and if congratulate and thank the Senior Warden, you wish to attend any of these Courses, the Clerk and all the Chairmen of the please email to Lt Cdr David Carter RNR various committees who continue their (formerly Shell Tankers) at: navyoptrg- efforts in managing the affairs of the [email protected] or write to, Royal company through many meetings and Navy Merchant Navy Liaison Officer, discussions. January was no exception. Maritime Trade Section, Maritime Warfare I was once again delighted to interview so School, HMS COLLINGWOOD, Newgate many prospective Freemen and Members Lane, FAREHAM, Hampshire PO14 1AS. and the calibre of the candidates never ceases to amaze me. I am confident that Committees our Company will continue to prosper and The Company operates five Standing the young talent I come across is extremely Committees (this means permanent and encouraging to the future success of our reporting direct to the Court). They Company. The inductions every month generally formally meet four times a year followed by curry lunches are enjoyed by and cover the following areas: all and it’s heartening to have the support • Finance - all aspects of the Company’s of their families and the mentors. investments, subscriptions and accounts; As we progress through this year I am sure • Membership - policy on membership we will all be watching with interest the criterion, recruiting, and numbers; progress of the Garden Bridge. This is set to C ity of London Briefings now go ahead with a move astern for the • Education & Training - oversight of HQS Wellington almost a certainty. I am Freemen and Liverymen are encouraged to training standards and the grateful to the Chairman, the Chief attend the City of London briefings which Apprenticeship Scheme; Executive and all the Trustees of the tell you about the City and its structure and • Technical - oversight of professional Wellington Trust who have worked are designed for all Liverymen, and indeed practices in every area of maritime tirelessly to ensure that the future of both Freemen, Court Assistants, and Wardens (as business and shipping; the Trust and our Livery Hall are secure for well as their spouses and partners who are the long term. very welcome to accompany). All are at • Treasures - management of all models, 1700 for 1730 in the Guildhall, and are over art, library and silverware collections. As we get closer to the Installation of my by 1930. Registration and bookings are successor, we will be holding elections for preferred via the website Members are invited to consider joining one both Wardens and the Court. I am www.liverycommitteecourses.org or more of those committees and thereby extremely delighted that so many of our but if this presents difficulties, please to take part more in the day to day life of members have come forward to take these contact the Course Administrator at our Company. Membership will not take up offices and I wish them all well in their Guildhall, Claire Holdgate much personal time and a great deal of the endeavours. I am sure that they all have a [email protected] work is achieved by email. If interested, I am lot to offer and hope that those who may telephone 020 7332 3176. always delighted to update members on the not be successful this year will continue to workings of the Committees. contribute and maintain their interest in Merchant Navy Senior Officers’ Courses Honourable Company of Master taking offices in the company. Mariners and Howard Leopold I will be installing my successor on This Masters and First and Second Mates Davis Charity Wednesday 29 th April, and with some two Course runs three times a year and is aimed Members are reminded that our associated months to go to the Installation; there are at to foster relations between the two HCMM & HLD charity is focussed on the yet many events that I am looking forward services and the programme is a mix of support of needy Merchant Navy Deck to. I look forward to hosting the very many lectures, visits and practical demonstrations Officers and their dependents. Any member Livery Masters and their Clerks who have all tied together with a strong social thread. knowing of a mariner or widow in need royally entertained us during my year to It includes briefs on the Royal Navy’s ships, should contact the Clerk. our Court Lunch in March. Both Maureen weapons, and worldwide operations. It also and I are looking forward to visiting the includes a day at sea in a warship during a Our Charity also oversees our presentation Outports in Aberdeen and Glasgow. Thursday War – a visit to Royal Marines at Christ’s Hospital School. The presentation

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covers all fees, uniform and equipment at Income Tax Relief on Annual 1245 by the Ladies Lunch. This is a the School for the full secondary course. Subscriptions and Livery Company event and an opportunity to This presentation is currently not filled and Quarterage involve our ladies. a suitable candidate is being sought, details The Honourable Company is approved by • The Summer Reception is at 1830 on from the Clerk. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for the Thursday 18 June 2015 and provides an West Sussex, RH13 0YP; Tel: 01403 211293; purposes of Section 334 of the Income Tax excellent opportunity for an upper deck Fax: 01403 211580; (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (which focussed drinks Reception with finger Email: [email protected] replaces the previous legislation). Where a food, before perhaps you move ashore to The Royal Hospital School at Holbrook member is employed in a marine or marine that special dinner or the theatre? offers generous bursaries to the sons or related occupation, the Annual Subscription The 11 th London Maritime Ball is on daughters or the grandchildren of male or and Livery Quarterage is allowable as a Friday 10 July 2015 and is invariably fully female officers of the UK Merchant Navy. deduction from earnings for tax purposes booked so you should get your name on The School also offers generous (but not Freedom or Livery Fines). Section the list early. Theme this year is “Oriental”. Scholarships in four areas: Academic, Arts, 334 is limited to earnings from • Now an annual fixture, the third of our and Sports and, Sailing. The Royal Hospital employment, but members who are self- Outport Ladies Lunches is on Friday 24 School, Holbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2RX; employed receive relief under Schedule D. Tel: +44 (0)1473 326200; July 2014. This Lunch is aimed at all [email protected] Master Mariner Post Nominals members of the Company and their wives with a particular theme to attract Accommodation Although membership of the Honourable Company imparts membership of a Outport Members and their Ladies and There are two ensuite cabins, one double recognised professional body - hence an opportunity for the Outports to get and one twin, in WELLINGTON for the use annual fees are considered tax deductible together and to meet the Master and of members (£50 single, £60 double by HMRC - we are not an Institute and do the Wardens and other Members – occupancy). Both cabins have colour not award any form of qualification, such book early to secure a place. televisions, digital radios and full WiFi as the Nautical Institute, rather we seek the Wardroom facilities. Please let us know if you will be qualification from you before we allow you arriving after normal working hours to to join, so to speak. The Wardroom is available for members and check in and collect your key. their private guests from 0900 until 1700 Therefore we have no post nominals, either to relax during busy visits to London If unable to book onboard, The Vintner’s although we are working now on a process or to conduct business. You should advise if Company, Upper Thames Street, to award Chartered Master Mariner status you will be onboard, to prevent over- London EC4V 3BG (close to Cannon Street which would in due course produce formal booking. The bar opens from 1230 to 1430, or Mansion House District/Circle Line Tube post nominals. when the Chief Steward, Simon, serves a Stations) offers our members access to their For the present many members add Master full range of drinks and cold and hot food overnight accommodation; some rooms are Mariner or simply HCMM after their names (hot food should be ordered 48 hours en-suite and start at £60 + VAT. Contact on business cards etc. MM cannot be used beforehand and is available when Bob the [email protected] ; of course as that is the recognised nominal chef is on duty, please check beforehand). Tel: 0207 651 0748. for the Military Medal. The menu on offer is: Members who are still serving , may make Social Hot - all priced at £7.50 use of the facilities of the Union Jack Club Poached Salmon Salad at Waterloo Station, where a single ensuite The team is currently working up towards: Grilled Chicken or Steak Baguette room begins at £72.00 and a double • Curry Lunches on: Friday 29 May 2015 with shoe-string Fries & Salad ensuite room begins at £126.00 . Contact [CURRENTLY FULLY BOOKED], Friday 26 Sausages and Mash & Onion Gravy Daiva Sobole , Advance Reservations June 2015 and Friday 31 July 2015. Manager ([email protected]) ; Tel: 0207 Members are reminded that guests Bob’s Special Fish ’n Chips 902 7379; Fax: 0207 620 0565; Union Jack should conform to our Curry Lunch dress Cold - all priced at £3.00 Club, Sandell Street , London SE1 8UJ. code of jackets and ties. A stock of A full range of sandwiches on brown Merchandise maritime type ties is held at Reception. or white bread Also, that set tables and individual Bob’s HCMM Special, the ‘Master’s ’ Honourable Company shields are now groups will be called forward by the Club Sandwich (£5.00) available for members. They take the form Catering Manager when they should rise Members are reminded that during bar of our original shields with the Company to select their curry lunch. opening hours any formal business badge of Golden Hind at the centre vice meetings underway in the Wardroom must our seahorse. Gentlemen’s Evening • The Installation Court Dinner on be put on hold and, that dress for members Cummerbunds have been sourced with a Wednesday 29 April 2014 is the second and their guests in the Wardroom is jacket full coloured embroidered seahorse emblem formal event of the year and a (optional in the summer) and tie. A stock of based on Gold for Liverymen and silver for celebration of the installation of the new spare maritime ties is held in Reception. Freemen are available. HQS WELLINGTON Master for 2015-2016. Dress is sombre 4Gb Computer Memory Sticks, in the form Black Tie to allow all our Ladies to Library of the ship, are available from the office – outshine us. New publications received recently are: the perfect gift for a modern mariner! • The Annual Company Church Service at Other merchandise can be found on the St Michael’s, Cornhill, is at 1100 on • Royal Fleet Auxiliary in Focus, Jon Wise inside back cover. Friday 12 June 2015, followed as usual at Maritime Books ISBN 0-907771-89-0 www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 723 Company News

• Ships in Focus Record 17 ISBN 1-901703-14-2 • Ships in Focus Record 18 ISBN 1-901703-15-2 (all donated by Captain Rob Booth) • Tramp to Queen (Seafaring life of Captain John Treasure Jones) Captain John Treasure Jones ISBN 978-0-7524-4625-7 (donated by his Son, David); (Treasure Jones commanded QUEEN MARY and MAURETANIA amongst other Cunarders and, HMS WELLINGTON in 1943) Supporters A number of commercial enterprises have over some years have been very supportive of our home and our Livery Hall. One of those companies is Furuno (UK) Ltd, which cost was very much more. has kindly installed an fully operational Wardroom Notes radar system into the Wheelhouse and The Wardroom continues to be popular and maintains and monitors the installation at John Johnson-Allen holding prices at their present level will no charge to the WELLINGTON Trust.. The Honorary Wardroom Mess Secretary continue as long as possible. The wardroom radar is a core element of the Primary is a service to all of us and although we do School Learning and particularly the new not, because of that, seek a profit, we do Secondary School Programme. Furuno (UK) add to the Company’s income. Ltd is a subsidiary of the Furuno Electric If you have been in the wardroom recently Company based in Nishinomiya, Japan and you will have noticed that we have is one of the premier suppliers of Bridge provided Simon, the barman, with a stool Navigation equipment globally. for his comfort when not fully engaged in Furuno (UK) Ltd is very active in the serving drinks. As usual, I would remind you merchant marine, commercial fishing and that if you wish to have a hot meal in the luxury yacht sectors in the UK and Ireland. wardroom at lunchtime it is necessary to Needless to say that as the deadline of July order it 48 hours in advance. If your 2018 for the fitting of ECDIS to all ships requirement is for a sandwich it is prudent approaches they are very busy in this sector. to contact the office the day before. However, all this cannot be done without good people, who have been well trained, The Wellington Trust which are ever more difficult to recruit. Therefore whilst they have their own in house The theme for this year’s Maritime Ball is Captain Stephen Taylor training scheme, they are keen to promote Oriental and one that hopefully will allow Chairman of the Trustees marine electronics to visiting school children for interesting decoration in the Court who will hopefully either seek a career at sea Room and more especially, for both the or in marine associated industries and this is ladies and gentlemen to exploit the theme a contributing factor why they have donated for Oriental dress. The committee meeting equipment to the WELLINGTON in the past at which the theme was decided was very and will do in the future. enthusiastic on the subject; given the Senior Warden’s long involvement in the Far East it was not, perhaps, to be wondered at. There have already been in the region of 30 reservations, as at the time of writing, so

we are anticipating a very good event. You will have noticed that the cost has gone up Website by £5, to £85. This has been the first increase in ticket cost that we have made Members should be aware that our in 11 years. In view of what is included in current website has been seriously hacked our ticket cost it is still incredibly good Onwards and upwards – life is getting and is now shut down. A brand new value; I noticed in another publication an very busy looking after the future of the website is under construction and should appeal for another similar occasion ship, with the hope that it will remain as be operational shortly. Thank you for elsewhere in the country, which offered the home of the Honourable Company. your patience. very much less than we provide, and the This is where we need your help if we

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are to continue, both financially and advantage of the proposed new Disabled also with voluntee rs. Access brow arrangements following the Wellington Trust The Garden Bridge re-berthing by the Garden Bridge Trust. The Heritage Committee proposed plans will continue to provide the The big game at present is with the HCMM with the facilities Members have John Johnson-Allen development of the Garden Bridge project. become used to. The current plan is that to allow the bridge Chairman, Heritage Committee The project to undertake this would provide to be built, we will need to move to a new Glyn Evans’ talk on the dazzle painting of a very daunting challenge to the Trust, with berth some 50 metres downstream. We will ships in World War One, in January was, as disruption on board whilst this happens in keep our present access over the we had expected, a fascinating look at the situ. The current plan is to submit a first Embankment although this will be added subject, with a particular focus on Norman round bid to the HLF later this year for this to with a ramp to give us Disabled Access. Wilkinson, who was the artist (three of redesign of the working and revenue By this time next year, we should have whose paintings hang on board) who earning spaces on board. If this is accepted moved. The Trust has a small Move conceived the idea of dazzle painting. We by the HLF, we will then have time to flesh Committee to help arrange all this, with were very happy to welcome Mr out this bid to enter a second round, with a Captain Terry Jewel as the Move Master, Wilkinson’s granddaughter to the evening, huge amount of supporting information and with the Marine Superintendent, and, from her comments she thoroughly required; we would be able to apply for Captain John Freestone overseeing the enjoyed the evening. actual navigational aspects of the move. funding to support this. In February we welcomed Dr Vanessa The Garden Bridge Trust has recently If as a result we then succeed with our Jenkins, who spoke about the disaster of received the bids from 3 companies second round bid, we can then get on with Gallipoli. After a very impressive wanting to construct the bridge, and we the work. We will also need to find a large presentation, with 100 slides, the question wait for the winner to emerge, and then to sum of matched funding, and will be and discussion session afterwards revealed discuss the detail with whomever this is. running a special fundraising project. If that there were five or six of the audience these plans go ahead, we could be Wellington Future (WEFT) who had relations who had been at undertaking the work in 2017. The The other major issue taking up time by the Gallipoli, which made the event a very alternative is to stay as we are, living with Trustees is looking to our longer term memorable one. the past and with an ever growing fear for future. Our Charitable Purpose is the the future. The last talk of the current season is by preservation of the old sloop HMS Rear Admiral John Lang, on the U-boat WELLINGTON, and the education of the HATS threat in World War One. From past nation on the history of the British The HATS exhibition is open again with the experience this will be another very well Merchant Navy. The Trustees currently new Gallipoli wall. Do come and see it and illustrated and thoroughly-researched talk. agree that we are likely to need a docking persuade your friends to visit us. We have The programme for the next winter season, in the next 10-20 years, and who will pay two new Heritage Project Officers (HPOs) 2015/2016 is now complete and we have a for this? for this last phase, both of whom started wide and varied selection of subjects. We Our current and past exhibitions, sponsored with us during the Convoy exhibition as start in September with one of the excellent by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), have volunteer stewards – Solmaz Kennedy will films from the Shell Film Unit on the early provided both us and the HLF with some be looking after the events and media, and years of Royal Dutch Shell, in its historical confidence that we are able to develop into Jim Blackburn is running the Volunteers. context. In October we shall hear about TE a national treasure. Short of a major 7 Schools Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol. The Red figure gift, our future as a hull could Sea Patrol was the naval force which therefore rely upon seeking HLF funding for The Secondary school programme is now supported the Arab revolt. Only three ships this long term preservation. But to position underway and we have had two school were Royal Naval vessels; the remainder ourselves for this we must move forward visits already. Rebecca Swan, who has were requisitioned merchant ships and ships into becoming the venue for the history of masterminded this programme, has agreed from the Royal Indian Marine. the Merchant Navy. to take over as Chair of the Education Committee, allowing Annie Todd to Some Members may have heard rumours, In November we have a very different continue helping the Trust by concentrating so this is to ensure all are up to date. evening. The well-known Marine artist on the exhibitions and the WEFT. Following many meetings and some design Ossie Jones is going to give a master class work, the Trust are investigating a major I wish to thank Annie most warmly for her on Marine Art. The evening will start with a project to develop the Main Deck becoming excellent work as Chairman, in overseeing buffet supper. The cost will be the same as a permanent exhibition space, and with the the school programme, and am delighted for Heritage Evenings; however there will ability to hold short term specific that she will continue to help us. However be no talk only availability. In December Dr exhibitions. An enquiry was recently we do need more Master Mariners to help Robert Bruce- Chwatt will speak to us lodged with the HLF for their comments on with the bridge work for Primary schools. Do about his experiences on the UGANDA this proposal, which has had a positive please consider giving a little of your time when she was a troopship in 1983–84, response; as a result, the Trust is for this enjoyable and rewarding work with taking troops down to the Falklands. considering submitting a major bid (in some pay back - say 2 hours a month? Not In January 2016 Rear Admiral David excess of £1M) to the HLF for developing asking much, but it helps if volunteers are in Snelson will give a talk on the history of the Main deck into an exhibition area, easy travelling distance. Do let me know if the five ARK ROYALs, in part based on his which will also be available to enhance the interested and come along to watch what own memories. In February, a complete ship as a catering venue. This will also take happens as a non-committal introduction. change when we hear about 200 years of www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 725 Company News

Heritage Evening Programme 2015 The Fascinating Early Years of Monday 14 September 2015 Shell Film Unit/ Captain R. Brown Royal Dutch Shell

Monday 12 October 2015 TE Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol John Johnson-Allen

A Master class with Ossie Jones: Monday 9 November 2015 Ossie Jones Marine Art Displayed

Monday 14 December 2015 Surgeon on a Troopship Dr Robert Bruce- Chwatt Heritage Evening Programme 2016

Monday 11 January 2016 The history of the Five ARK ROYALs Rear Admiral David Snelson

200 years of Swire’s and the Monday 8 February 2016 Robert Jennings China Navigation Company Refugee Fleets & the Allied War Effort Monday 21 March 2016 Captain Adrian White In World War II

persons who were pursuing a career at sea define the mentoring process and potentially and in particular, the support and guidance provide a document for other organisations There is one important change we are able to offer through the mentoring to follow, as a demonstration that it was a to the timings of heritage scheme. The visit was very much enhanced scheme ‘fit for purpose’ and essentially an evenings. They will start at 1830, by the support from members of the North independent risk assessment, along ISO9001 West Outport who accompanied me to principles. The Chairman added that the the wardroom opening at 1800. Fleetwood. After my presentation, Captain process should be scrutinised by an external Derrick Kemp, chairman of the North West body, rather than dealt with in-house, to Swires and the China Navigation Company Outport, gave an informative insight into avoid any suggestion of an implicit quasi- from Rob Jennings who is Swire’s archivist. the role of the Master of a cruise liner. This contract between mentor and mentee and was followed by a most interesting talk by to protect against even the possibility of The season ends with a talk about an Captain Leslie Hesketh on the less glamorous impropriety. The committee agreed to historical oddity, the refugee merchant job of the master of a bulk carrier and the proceed with Stage 1 of the proposed fleets in World War II. These were the fleets importance of making note of any potential scheme, a workshop involving a that escaped from countries overrun by damage during loading/discharging. He also representative selection of mentors from Nazi invasion, who served the Allied war stressed the importance of a loading across the country. That first workshop took effort. Captain ‘Snowy’ White, who is sequence plan to alleviate excessive place on Wellington on 19 th January at known to many of us, has researched this longitudinal stress and trim due to the rapid which 15 mentors were present. in detail. rate of loading. The presentations attracted We have had to increase the cost of the a large audience many of whom expressed a The aim of this workshop was to explore suppers for the Heritage evenings. They desire to learn more about becoming an current practise, experience and reported have been unchanged since we started, but associate or an apprentice of the effectiveness of our mentors. The lead from now costs have increased, so, for Friends Honourable Company. Dr Haughton was well managed and the cost is £27, and for all others it is £32 - mentors were asked to consider some At the Education and Training Committee an increase of £2. searching questions. There was some debate meeting in October last year, the Chairman, on what is the definition of Mentoring or At the time of writing we are in discussion Lt Cdr Peter Aylott, asked the committee to more aptly, what was the Honourable with regard to a possible short-term consider the future of the HCMM mentoring Company’s definition. What I found exhibition in June about the LUSITANIA. If scheme which was growing rapidly but he interesting was the consistency of answers the discussions are fruitful then appropriate was concerned that whilst guidance was and conclusions of individuals. It was very publicity will follow in due course! available to both mentors and mentees, evident that all the mentors present were there was currently no over-riding singing from same hymn sheet. The big document to shore up the process behind question was…“is it the right hymn?” It PDC Column the scheme. would be inappropriate at this stage to list Captain Geoff Cowap The Chairman had commissioned a respected the detail of that workshop as a second I was invited to Fleetwood Nautical College academic, Dr Chris Haughton to provide a workshop comprising trainees at college, on 22 nd January to make a presentation on preliminary report for consideration. A draft some of which, but not necessarily all, will be behalf of the Honourable Company, to some proposal from Dr Haughton had been members of the Honourable Company. That of their Phase 1 students. The aim was to circulated prior to that meeting outlining workshop will take place at Fleetwood give them an awareness of how the the aims and objectives, identifying the Nautical College in March. Following the Honourable Company could benefit young stages of the proposal. The plan was to second workshop, Dr Haughton will assimilate

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the remarks, comments and suggestions from (nautical colleges, maritime research), the Business Manager all participants in both workshops and pilotage, port operations, navigation ([email protected]) present his report for the consideration of the equipment development, superyachts. Liverymen of the Northern Outports will Education and Training Committee at the This session will give mentors a wider have been notified of the 2015 London next meeting on 9 th April 2015. knowledge and useful links to pass on to Liveries Brigantes Breakfast to be held at The report will be made public at the their mentees Manchester Town Hall on Friday 29 th May. th Mentors’ Seminar on 10 April onboard Whilst on the topic of mentoring, may I This is another opportunity for those who Wellington, and those attending will have remind all Mentors and Mentees about are unable to attend Livery functions in the opportunity to comment and discuss Mentoring Monday ? It is an opportunity London to meet with other Liverymen. I the find. to meet up with your peers, other Mentors have declared my interest and will be Mentors’ Seminar and Mentees who can exchange views and attending the Manchester breakfast. The Friday 10 th April 2015 ideas with others and to gain a better event is exclusively for Liverymen and I understanding of what we are trying to hope that the Honourable Company can be The programme for the mentors’ seminar achieve through our mentoring scheme. well represented. on 10 th April has been circulated to all our The first Monday of every month except mentors. We have taken note of all of your ECDIS January is Mentoring Monday unless it comments from last year’s event and happens to be a bank holiday in which At the Technical committee meeting on hopefully will be able to offer a more th case, the 2nd Monday. 20 January, there was a discussion on the meaningful seminar. advantages/disadvantages of ECDIS. The Programme for the day The forthcoming Mentoring Mondays are: Chairman, Captain Ian Giddings considered 13 th April (2 nd Monday as the 1 st that this topic should be given further 1030-1100 Registration: Mentors and Monday is Easter Monday); 11 th May consideration and proposed that the invited guests will arrive. (2 nd Monday as 1 st Monday is May Bank committee should organise a workshop Coffee/tea available Holiday); 1st June ; 6th July ; 3rd specifically to gauge the opinions and 1100 Welcome from the Master August ; comments from those with first-hand 1105 Introduction 7th September ; 5th October . experience of operating and using ECDIS. 1115-1300 First session: Expectations from The Technical Committee Chairman, having Mentor and Mentee If you are in or near London on any of these identified the need for such a workshop, dates, do come and join us from 1230. New briefing notes for mentors and included the proposal in a motion to the mentees have been prepared and circulated Outports Court which was accepted. to mentors. These notes will form the basis If at all possible, I like to visit the Outports I am therefore making necessary of how the mentoring scheme will operate at least once during the year. I enjoyed arrangements for the workshop to be held and aims to clarify responsibilities and lunch in Exeter with the SW Outport in on board Wellington at a date to be expectations of Mentors, Mentees and the October and attended the Valentines lunch decided. I would particularly like to hear Honourable Company. Your thoughts and in Cardiff with the Bristol Channel Outport. from seagoing masters or officers including suggestions will be most welcome during The Master and Wardens lunch in the our associates and apprentices who have the session and will be used to formulate North West Outport was held this year at experience in the use of ECDIS who would the final draft. the newly refurbished hotel that was the be prepared to participate in the proposed In addition, the results of the Workshops head office of the White Star Line. workshop. It would help in planning the organised by Haughton Maritime Ltd will Christmas lunch in the Merchant Taylor’s date, to include dates when you are likely be available for discussion. There may well Hall in York was a magnificent event to be in UK. be additional topics to add to the briefing organised by the North East Outport which Achievements notes as a result of the Workshop. I attended along with a dozen others from the North West Outport. The interaction Congratulations to the following who have Your questions to the panel will be between neighbouring Outports is to be recently been awarded Certificates of welcome. You may wish to submit encouraged, especially for members who Competency questions by email prior to the event. are not able to visit Wellington regularly; Please submit these to PDC Chief Mate: Sarah Hardie, Mark Hart, meeting members from other Outports is ([email protected]) with subject clearly John Thompson an opportunity to exchange views with marked SEMINAR PROPOSED QUESTION. fellow Freemen and Liverymen. OOW: Bryan Andrews, Oliver Fowke, Richard Grad, Gareth Joynes, Rhiannon 1300-1400 Buffet lunch. Refreshments A date for your diary for all our Outport Pritchard, Samuel McDougall, Adrian courtesy C-MAR group members, Friday 24 th July 2015, is the Young 1400-1600 Second session: Opportunities Outport lunch on board Wellington. This is within the maritime profession the one event in the year when Outport If any of our apprentices or associates have Mentors are frequently asked for advice on members, their ladies and guests have recently obtained a certificate or any careers within the maritime industry other priority over all others. This year, by academic achievement, but not mentioned than continuing to sea. It is hoped to include popular request, we have selected a Friday above, then it is probably because you members who have experience within such so that you can enjoy a long weekend haven’t informed the Honourable Company. professions as marine law, marine insurance (24 th , 25 th , 26 th ) in London. Book your Please contact us whenever you obtain any (P&I Clubs), off-shore opportunities, transport and accommodation early to get certificate or degree award and send a copy surveyors (marine, cargo, Classification the best deals and book places for yourself, of the certificate. The Company will send societies, MCA, warranty etc.), academia your good lady and all your guests through you a reward for your achievement. www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 727 Company News

Once onboard SUTHERLAND he met with Commanding Officer then filled a vehicle Ship Affiliations the Commanding Officer before visiting the and delivered all of the items to a very HMS SUTHERLAND 30-man Mess, where he had coffee and an grateful Eunice Halliday OBE, the Project informal talk with several members of the Coordinator at the charity who was Captain Christopher Laycock Ship’s Company, across all departments and extremely grateful for the contribution It has not been possible since the last update specialisations, ranging from junior Able made from a considerable amount of on our affiliation in the last issue of The Seaman to Warrant Officers. personnel onboard. We realise how lucky we are and how important it is to spend Journal published before Christmas to meet The visit provided an ideal opportunity for quality time with family and friends over up with SUTHERLAND and its friendly and the Defence Secretary to see what life is the festive period, therefore are delighted supportive ship’s company. Clearly, the ship’s like onboard and to understand the issues to support an extremely worthwhile cause. company have been working feverishly to that we are dealing with in the current get their charge back out to sea and back climate as a Front Line unit generating to into action, being their preferred and deploy for 9 months. designed mode and place of work. As Lt Cdr Pete Brotton reports below, their best intentions have been frustrated by circumstances beyond their control. We can all sympathise with their frustrations and their longing to be back on the brine properly after such a long refit, and we wish them all well and every success in this regard . From: Lieutenant Commander Pete Brotton Executive Officer, Michael Fallon MP talking to members of HMS SUTHERLAND the Ship’s Company Refit Progress Plymouth Food Banks The regeneration of SUTHERLAND continues The Oasis Project is a Plymouth based CPO(CS) Gavin Tuach, the Commanding to progress well. Unfortunately, due to charity with one of their many roles acting Officer, Eunice Halliday OBE and Leading factors out with our control, it is unlikely as a Food Bank to support those in need Chef ‘Max’ Payne that the ship will return to sea this side of and less fortunate than ourselves. In the Easter. Emergent engineering problems few days prior to Christmas, further to After visiting the Oasis Project we are combined with the availability of external national media coverage, the Ship decided absolutely convinced that the outstanding authorities due to other projects mean that to have a Food Bank of our own in the work of the volunteers and leaders, during we will return to sea to commence our Sea Junior Rates Dining Hall for all members of the festive period in particular, is gaining Trials package around mid-April. the Ship’s Company to drop off donations more recognition and assure them that we will continue to support in the future This unfortunate delay will cause some ranging from Pasta to Christmas Puddings. wherever possible. significant changes to our short and long term programme, details of which will Care After Combat Charity come out in due course. Affiliation Defence Secretary Visit Thursday 29 January 2015 seemed like just another day in the HMS SUTHERLAND In December, the ship was visited by the regeneration process to anyone involved; Secretary of State for Defence, Michael however a trip down to the ship’s 45 man Fallon MP during his tour of the Defence Junior Rates accommodation would have facilities in Plymouth and Devonport. The told you otherwise where the renowned purpose of his visit to Devonport was to see comedian and stage performer Jim first-hand the area of the Naval Base that Davidson was doing his rounds and is to become a prime location for the meeting the Ship’s Company. marine industry. This follows on from a Government announcement earlier this year regarding the City Deal.

Visiting the OASIS Project The Chief Caterer, CPO(CS) Gavin Tuach, Michael Fallon MP boards SUTHERLAND Leading Chef ‘Max’ Payne and the Jim Davidson welcomed aboard by the CO

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SUTHERLAND is extremely proud to be professionalism of the ship, but the Royal The haggis was presented during the affiliate with the Care After Combat charity Navy as an organisation. first speech, and the visit was to promote the charity Another poem followed, well, more of and all the great work it is doing. Mr Wardroom Celebrates Burns Night a screech. Davidson has closely worked alongside the On the 22 nd of January, SUTHERLAND After the meal we passed the whisky British Forces for over 30 years and wardroom sat down to enjoy an early Burns and port, provides stand up shows and question and Night Mess Dinner. Although this night is And took another moment to reflect answer sessions with forces personnel to celebrated fleet wide, it had particular what he taught. improve and maintain morale. importance to the ship; not only with A quick look back over his works and reference to its Scottish roots and its rhymes, connection to the county of Sutherland, It became clear his poems survived but to our very own current Scottish the test of time. Commanding Officer. Mess games followed, eating cardboard off the floor, The night was organised by Steward Bagen, The following morning found some who did an excellent job organising legs were quite sore. everything from menus to seating plans Fine after fine, lead to more poems and ensuring the smooth running of the being read, evening as a whole. The ships galley once Toast after toast….and then it was again provided stunning cuisine for the time for bed! evening with a smoked salmon starter, Jim Davidson with the CPO and WOs Mess followed by the mandatory Haggis, neeps Whilst onboard, Mr Davidson and the and tatties, finished off with handmade THE LODGE charity team had the opportunity to lavender ice cream with biscuit base. understand the working dynamics of a commissioned warship in the Royal Navy and visited the many sections and departments onboard to gain an appreciation of the time, effort and dedication that the Ship’s Company are putting into the regeneration process, all building towards returning to sea very soon. The visit culminated in a discussion with some of the junior rates onboard, Located at the driveway entrance of the 14 where questions on the good work of the acre Weston Acres estate, owned and run charity were answered and intentions for by the well-known maritime charity The future fundraising ideas were discussed. LStd Hanson, CH Pedley and Std Bagen Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, this 2 preparing to serve at the Burns Night Dinner bedroomed cottage is undergoing complete Throughout the night, many Robert Burns internal modernisation and external poems were enjoyed by all as both decoration ready for letting to a former entertainment and fines as they were read seafaring couple from 1 April 2015. aloud in some fairly suspect Scottish Terms will be a standard assured short-hold accents. After the meal, the final bottle of tenancy at a rent of £1000 pcm, The Macallan which was bottled for considerably lower than the local market SUTHERLAND was passed around, price. Connected separately to both gas, Jim Davidson with members of the 39 accompanied by port, to make a final toast electric, and mains water, utilities will not man mess to the immortal memory of Robert Burns. be included in the rent. Heating is by gas- fired boiler, with secondary double glazing SLt Ben Gwilliam, currently onboard HMS Inspired by the events SLt Kromolicki, one fitted throughout. SUTHERLAND said: “The work of charities of the Ship’s Young Officers, wrote this such as Care After Combat is truly poem as a toast to the event. Tenants will be able to benefit from all the admirable and it is crucially important that Society’s activities on site, including After a hardworking month, on the visits such as this one take place in order to concerts and outings, as well as access to 22 nd Jan, establish an understanding and make guest accommodation for visiting friends The Wardroom celebrated the work of service personnel aware of the services and family and bar facilities at much one man, available to them, particularly when they subsidised rates. A great Scottish poet, by the name of are at their most vulnerable after leaving Robert Burns, The accommodation comprises large the Services.” And after such a great night, our entrance/dining hall, master bedroom and We can now proudly say that a visit to the respect, he earns. small second bedroom, lounge, fully fitted Fighting Clan has been firmly cemented in With a somewhat dodgy accent, it all kitchen, bathroom and utility room. There is his memory and the commendable started with a grace, an ample garden area, laid to lawn, impression set by all onboard acts as And after much laughter that really surrounded by fencing with a hard excellent evidence of not only the set the pace. standing for a car within the fenced area. www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 729 Latest News

permanently berthed as a display in the Brisbane Southbank Graving Dock (built 1876). Some of the older members, post 1876 vintage, might have memories of the former Brisbane River meat loading wharfs along this bank. Perhaps more notably, the Breakfast Creek Hotel (built 1889, still standing serving prawns and beer) which was just a ship’s lifeboat ‘lunch time test run’ upriver to the opposite bank. HMAS DIAMANTINA is only one of two remaining ships in the world to have hosted surrender ceremonies; the other being USS MISSOURI at Pearl Harbour. Latest News No let-up in The Lodge, Weston Acres, Woodmansterne The dirk’s providence is directly connected Lane, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 3HB with the 1945 Japanese surrender of Naura navigational claims and Ocean Islands in the Pacific onboard For further details please contact Mrs HMAS DIAMANTINA. Margaret Brazier at Head Office on 01737 353763 or by email to: [email protected] Society details can be seen on the website at www.royalalfredseafarers.com The History of the Merchant Navy in two World Wars Professor Tony Lane, a former Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), who started adult life with the New Zealand Shipping Company, is running a Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) one- day school entitled The Role of the Merchant The presentation Navy in the Two World Wars , on Saturday 25 th April 2015, at Feering (mid Essex). In September 1945, following the official The School runs from 1100-1530 with a surrender of Japanese 17th Army forces in break for lunch. the Solomon Islands at Torokina A charge of £10 covers the lectures plus coffee Bougainville, HMAS DIAMANTINA sailed for and biscuits. Advance booking is advised. the surrender of Naura and Ocean Islands with Brigadier J R Stevenson DSO Further details can be found at: representing the Australian Government. http://www.wea-essex.org.uk/fedevents.htm The Japanese occupational forces surrender According to the mutual marine insurance of both Islands was signed on the ship’s company, The Swedish Club, half of the costs quarterdeck, Naura 13 September and of hull and machinery claims handled by the Presentation of Ocean Island 1 October 1945. It understood Club have arisen due to navigational claims that the particular sword, customarily such as collisions, contacts or groundings - a Japanese ceremonial surrendered at such ceremonies, has not figure that has remained steady over recent dirk to Royal been verified and this naval dirk (perhaps years despite improved technology and the liberated ) provides authenticated widespread implementation of Safety Australian Navy providence with the historical event. Management Systems. Greg Spencer HMAS DIAMANTINA was built 1945 as one The Swedish Club, in its latest Loss A unique opportunity to involve the HCMM of the 131 wartime production anti- Prevention publication, Navigational with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) arose submarine River Class frigates; 6 in Claims , has revealed a number of whilst the Australian Naval Attaché was on Australia, 57 Britain and 68 Canada. The interesting findings relating to claims made board HQS WELLINGTON in March, which ship paid off in 1980 and as Australia’s the for hull and machinery damage between involved the passing on of a WWll Japanese largest surviving WWll warship and the 2004 and 2013. ceremonial naval dirk, to the RAN for only remaining River Class frigate in the It seems that many navigational claims still inclusion in the RAN Heritage Centre at world, she was handed over to the occur due to procedures not being properly Garden Island Dockyard. Queensland Maritime Museum to be followed by crew members, and officers not

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communicating with each other properly. purpose and which are largely operated by assistance of anyone in distress at sea. In addition poor communication between people smugglers. However, “some ships have had to rescue as both vessels and bridge team members and a many as 500 people at a time, with serious This is the key message which the ICS lack of situational awareness all play a part. implications for the welfare of ships’ crews delivered to a high-level United Nations given the health and security issues Navigational Claims details measures that inter-agency meeting on the crisis, hosted involved in dealing with such large can be adopted to help prevent these by the IMO in London on 4 March 2015. incidents occurring in the first place, such as numbers. This goes well beyond what having clear, meaningful procedures for Merchant ships rescued around 40,000 should reasonably be expected of merchant officers and crew to adhere to and, more people during 2014, according to the seafarers,” said Peter Hinchliffe. United Nations High Commissioner for importantly, ensuring they understand the While far more needs to be done to prevent Refugees (UNHCR). But this number is consequences of not following them properly. the boats used by people smugglers from predicted to increase dramatically during being able to depart in the first place, the Lars Malm, Director, Strategic Business 2015 if the political situation in Africa and lawless situation in nations such as Libya Development & Client Relationship for the Middle East further deteriorates. The Swedish Club says: and Syria makes this very difficult. ICS “Being able to identify the reasons for ICS says that the burden of responsibility therefore believes there is an urgent need navigational claims is invaluable for placed on ships and their crews to rescue for European States (and the international masters and shipowners. This report migrants in distress has been further community) to develop a political solution. increased by the replacement of Italy’s shows that most claims can be prevented “The EU in particular needs to provide humanitarian Mare Nostrum operation by simply ensuring that all crew follow refugees and migrants with alternative with the EU funded Triton operation, whose proper procedures and consult with each means of finding safety without risking primary mandate is border protection and other before making major decisions.” their lives by crossing the Mediterranean in which operates with very limited resources. The Club also stresses in the report that the boats that are unseaworthy and operated implementation of an effective training ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe said: by unscrupulous criminals. It is imperative programme for officers is vital especially in “The response to the crisis by the Italian to avoid the impression that a potentially relation to effective communication and risk Navy and Coast Guard continues to be fatal sea crossing in a tiny overcrowded assessment. Often risks increase when sailing incredibly impressive. But the situation is boat is the only realistic pathway to in congested waters, dense traffic or close to now so serious that all EU Member Europe,” said Mr Hinchliffe. States need to become more engaged. land and this needs to be acknowledged and In the short term, however, ICS insists that appropriate measures adopted. The shipping industry’s concern is that, EU Member States need to do far more to The thirty-four page report uses case following the end of Mare Nostrum , support the Italian Search and Rescue studies to demonstrate how navigational other governments are increasingly operation (as well as nations such as Greece, accidents can occur. These examples detail relying on merchant ships to undertake Malta, Cyprus and Turkey which are also on the cause of the accident and how it could more and more large-scale rescues.” the front line of this problem) and the very large number of rescues being conducted by have been prevented with proper planning ICS says it is also concerned by the more merchant ships; a situation which ICS says is and better lines of communication. As is so recent phenomenon of ships full of becoming increasingly untenable. often the case, there is usually a chain of migrants being left to navigate in congested errors leading up to the accident and these waters without qualified persons in charge, In response to the crisis in the case studies highlight the most common presenting a danger to seafarers in other Mediterranean, ICS has recently produced ones so Masters can review their own ships as well as the migrants themselves. guidance on Large Scale Rescue Operations practices and eradicate any mistakes before at Sea, which can be downloaded free of Coastal States have Search and Rescue a serious incident occurs. charge at www.ics-shipping.org/free- (SAR) obligations under international law To download a copy of Navigational Claims resources/refugee-rescue-crisis but as the situation gets worse, ICS believes go to: that unless concerted action is taken to http://www.swedishclub.com/upload/Public prevent criminals from using unsafe craft ations/navigational-claims-brochure.pdf to transport migrants there must be a ICS Updates Flag State massive increase in State funded resources Performance Table for SAR operations to meet the growing Humanitarian crisis need in the Mediterranean. In practice, says The ICS has published its annual Shipping in the Mediterranean ICS, this means that other EU Member Industry Flag State Performance Table . States need to share the burden in order to ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe Sea is spiralling out help prevent thousands more deaths. remarked: of control According to UNHCR, at least 3,500 people “The very largest flag states, such as the The humanitarian crisis in the lost their lives during 2014 while Bahamas, Liberia and the Marshall Mediterranean Sea is spiralling out of attempting to cross the Mediterranean Islands, as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, control. According to the International from North Africa. There is a terrible risk of Cyprus and Greece, all continue to Chamber of Shipping (ICS), EU Member further catastrophic losses of life as more demonstrate very impressive levels of States must act urgently to prevent the loss desperate people attempt this dangerous performance, as do all of the other large of thousands more lives, as hundreds of sea crossing. European and Asian flags.” thousands of migrants and refugees seek to The international shipping industry fully Given the nature of the indicators that ICS escape to Europe in boats that are unfit for accepts its legal obligations to come to the uses, whether or not a flag is missing one www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 731 Latest News

or two green squares on the ICS Table may “Strong, effective Welfare Boards needn’t not be especially important. For example, A better welcome for be expensive or time consuming to the fact that a certain IMO Convention may visiting seafarers organise or participate in. Every port is not have been ratified by a flag state does unique and we are mindful that there is no not necessarily mean that its requirements A new website designed to encourage the easy ‘one size fits all’ rule for establishing are not being implemented in practice. formation of port welfare boards around Welfare Boards; however, we look forward Amongst the 19 largest ships registers, the world to provide a welcome to visiting to sharing our expertise with partners in covering more than 85% of the world fleet, seafarers has been launched recently by the international maritime community. none have more than three potential the UK-based Merchant Navy Welfare Welfare boards are capable of really indicators of negative performance. Board (MNWB). supporting and improving seafarers’ welfare An important element in a project However, there are a number of smaller services in ports and this exciting pilot managed on behalf of the International flag states that still have considerable work project captures the collaborative spirit of Seafarers’ Welfare Assistance Network to do, and ICS continues to suggest that MLC, 2006” (ISWAN), the website explains the role of shipowners may wish think very carefully welfare boards, which are an integral part Kimberly Karlshoej, Head of ITF Seafarers’ about using such flags. The largest of these of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, Trust stated: is Tanzania, but Mongolia, Moldova, now being implemented around the world. “The Trust is very proud to be the Cambodia and Sierra Leone are also sponsor of the Port Welfare Partnership conspicuous examples of sub-standard ship Regulation 4.4 of MLC 2006 requires Pilot Project. The promotion and registers according to the ICS Table. member states to ensure that seafarers utilisation of port welfare boards is a working on board a ship have access to critical step in improving services to Mr Hinchcliffe added: shore-based facilities and services to secure “One area on which we would like to seafarers during their all too short stays their health and well-being. It recommends in the world’s ports”. see more progress by certain flag that in order to fulfil this requirement, states, including some of those with member states shall encourage the The project website emphasises that the otherwise better performance, is with establishment of welfare boards which successful welfare board is, like a well- respect to ratification of the ILO shall regularly review welfare facilities and functioning port welfare committee, a co- Maritime Labour Convention. services to ensure that they are operative partnership within the maritime community. It will involve the participation But following the entry into force of the appropriate in the light of changes in the of individuals and agencies such as MLC it is now being enforced worldwide needs of seafarers resulting from technical, harbourmasters, port agents, port health, through Port State Control and the vast operational and other developments in the seafaring unions, voluntary organisations the majority of international shipping shipping industry. and the welfare providers, along with local companies are operating in compliance, Managed by the MNWB, the ISWAN project authorities. At both a national and local with the exception of the official flag is designed to provide information, port level, it will also encourage financial state certification.” guidance and advice to assist in the support from the industry through port establishment of welfare boards in parts of levies and donations, and seek other the world where they have not been mechanisms for funding, where this might previously seen. Additionally, the project be required. will assess the operational effectiveness of existing welfare boards around the world, Designed to provide an introduction to the while helping to establish minimum important topic of seafarers’ welfare, and standards and promoting best practice. It is underlining the reasons why the obligations hoped that using this information, under MLC 2006 are important, the website developed within a single point of contact, also shows something of the life of the a model might be provided that will be the modern day seafarer and why ports need to basis of welfare boards thus fulfilling the provide this essential workforce with a objectives of MLC 2006 and leading to a warm welcome, all around the world. major, global project. To access the new project website go to: ISWAN Executive Director, Roger Harris www.portwelfare.org stated: “We are pleased to have the ITF Seafarers’ Trust sponsoring and MNWB managing this important pilot project on our behalf. We now have an international Project Executive Committee that boasts cross sector representation and are looking forward to working in partnership with The London & South East Ports Welfare MNWB who possess a wealth of The ICS Shipping Industry Flag State Committee, one of the UK’s welfare experience operating welfare boards.” Performance Table can be downloaded free of boards meets regularly to support and charge from: www.ics-shipping.org/docs/flag- Peter Tomlin, Deputy Chief Executive of improve welfare services for domicile and state-performance-table MNWB and Project Manager stated: visiting seafarers

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Number of UK seafarers increases for first time since 2010 The number of UK seafarers has increased for the first time since 2010, new figures released by the Department for Transport show. The annual Seafarer Statistics show that the total number of UK seafarers active at sea in 2014 was estimated to be 22,910 and that the total number of UK officers increased by around 300. This was the first annual increase in the total number of UK Watch ashore supporting Maritime Charities Woolly Hats Appeal seafarers, since 2010. Watch Ashore raises to sixteen branches around British ports. It The figures also show that nearly 2000 also lobbied effectively over the years for officer cadets were in training, the second its profile reforms that would improve conditions for highest level since the Government’s Merchant Navy personnel. ‘Support for Maritime Training’ scheme was The Watch Ashore, an organisation introduced in 1998. established in 1933 to provide support for Six branches are active today, in Plymouth, wives and partners of Merchant Navy Southampton, Glasgow, London, Edinburgh UK Chamber CEO, Guy Platten, said: officers, has turned to social media to raise and the Humber. Country members who do “After several years of decline this news is its membership and campaign more not live close to the branches are hugely encouraging. There is a global effectively. With branches in six UK ports and welcomed and there is a programme of shortage of seafarers, and with the volume membership around the country, providing meetings. The branches also help the of trade moved by sea expected to double mutual support for those whose loved ones maritime charity sector with fund-raising in the next twenty years, the demand for are away at sea, Watch Ashore is launching a and other support. skilled seafarers will only increase. new website, a forum for its members and is Comments Watch Ashore Chair, Mrs Chris The world needs more seafarers and the reaching out to a younger generation with Rankin: UK is uniquely placed to plug that gap, cheap and effective social media. “The Watch Ashore is a valuable support with world class maritime colleges and Working with the Merchant Navy Welfare network for all those whose loved ones training institutions, and a reputation for Board, using a grant from the Merchant are serving at sea, but we would greatly providing highly skilled seafarers. welcome more members who might Navy Fund, short training courses in the use With the right government support, we of social media are being provided in a benefit from belonging to our organisation.” can create a new seafaring generation project that aims to help the organisation across the UK, with young people from all raise its profile, improve its outreach and A busy social programme soon backed up walks of life finding a rewarding and increase its membership. with the new website and forum will exciting career at sea.” hopefully attract new members. Mrs Rankin Captain David Parsons, Chief Executive of added that there remain important reforms But Mr Platten added more needed to be the Merchant Navy Welfare Board writes: needed to make life better for serving done by government to support new “Seafaring is a unique way of life and seafarers and their families. Families for seafaring jobs. that applies no less to their wives and instance, were experiencing difficulty with “Training world class seafarers comes at a partners who manage all the affairs of the hard line being currently taken by head price. The Support for Maritime Training the home and often a family during teachers over children being taken out of scheme covered 50% of the cost of lengthy, sometimes lonely, periods of school when seafaring fathers were on training new seafarers in 1998, now it absence. leave in term time. covers just over a third. The Watch Ashore has long provided an The project has its own dedicated website: We are the second most expensive opportunity for mutual support and www.watchashore.org.uk country in the world for companies to companionship through a limited train seafarers, and given seafarers go on number of branches. Now their network to work in a range of shore-based can be extended nationwide through maritime careers after they return from social networking and modern sea, it is unfair for shipping companies communications.” to shoulder the vast majority of the training costs. This is why Government Watch Ashore was founded 82 years ago support is so crucial. when the Merchant Navy was suffering from the worst of the Great Depression. Government increased Support for Providing support and friendship for ‘wives, Maritime Training funding from £12m to widows, mothers, sisters and daughters of £15m in 2013. This is having a positive all Merchant Navy officers and anyone with Presenting a cheque in support of impact. But if we are to unlock the an interest in the Merchant Navy’, it grew Seafarers Link seafaring potential that exists across the www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 733 Latest News

UK, we need Government to commit to effectively across the world. tonne weight restriction that is in place covering a much higher percentage of when the MV STRANGFORD is in service. Mr Platten said: training costs.” “The government should be Transport Minister Danny Kennedy said: The Department for Transport’s Seafarer congratulated on taking this threat “The new ferry will replace the existing Statistics can be downloaded from: seriously, and being proactive in working MV Strangford with a new modern ferry with industry to maximise UK that has been designed specifically for https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sys competitiveness. But these latest figures this service. The new ferry will be built tem/uploads/attachment_data/file/408026/ show we are not just trying to improve over the next 18 months and, when it seafarer-statistics-2014.pdf on our current position, but reverse a comes into operation, will provide a Meanwhile, figures recently launched by trend that is seeing shipping business more reliable and efficient ferry service. move eastwards. the Department for Transport show that The Department for Regional the deadweight tonnage of the UK- A key part of the Maritime Growth Development currently operates a vehicle registered trading fleet has decreased by Study is to look critically at the UK Ship ferry service in Strangford Lough 27% since 2009, whilst the combined Register and the Maritime and between Strangford and Portaferry with deadweight tonnage of the world trading Coastguard Agency to see what reforms two vehicle ferries and a back-up fleet has increased by 34%. are necessary to halt and reverse these passenger ferry. The new ferry will The total number of ships in the world trading declining trends. There are fantastic replace the existing MV Strangford fleet has increased by 5% from 54,125 ships opportunities out there in global which is over 40 years old and is to 56.759, but the number of vessels shipping, and the UK is well placed to approaching the end of its economically registered in the UK decreased by 36%, from exploit them – but there is no doubt operational life.” there is a great deal of work to be done.” 712 to 453 during the same period. The Department has engaged with a range In 2013 alone, 66 ships left the UK flag Shipping Fleet Statistics 201 4, can be of stakeholders, including the public, the whilst only 19 joined - with countries such downloaded from: Committee for Regional Development and as Singapore and China being among the https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/s local councils during the development of key beneficiaries. hipping-fleet-statistics-2014 the ferry proposals. A representative of the Department confirmed that the project Guy Platten, Chief Executive of the UK team will continue to keep stakeholders Chamber said: Cammell Laird informed during the construction of the “Whilst UK shipping as a whole remains new ferry. relatively strong, these statistics show Shipyard announces that the UK flag does not appear to be as The Minister added that good progress was commercial, competitive or attractive to new-build ferry also being made on the tender process for international shipowners as it should be” a new ferry for Rathlin. Tender documents contract have been issued to a shortlist of ship Despite the decline in recent years, the UK The Birkenhead marine and specialist builders and they hope to award the registered fleet is still four times the size it was engineering company was awarded the contract in April. in the late 1990s, having increased from 2.7 multi-million project by the Northern million dwt to 12.6 million dwt – although Ireland Department for Regional down from a high point of 17.7million dwt in Development after an open procurement 2011. Over the same period, UK direct owned exercise which attracted interest from tonnage more than doubled, from 7.2 million shipyards across Europe. dwt to 16.5 dwt. This boost was largely the result of the introduction of the Tonnage Tax It will see the firm constructing a new car regime in 2000. and passenger ferry to replace the existing MV STRANGFORD operating between There are also embryonic signs of recovery Strangford and Portaferry in County Down, in the UK Parent-Owned fleet, which Northern Ireland. The new ferry is due to showed the first increase since before the be delivered by August 2016. economic crisis – moving from 789 to 798 Mr Rob McBurney, Commercial Director of vessels, with an increase from 29.4million Northern Ireland Executive Transport Cammell Laird, said: deadweight tonnes to 30.1million in 2014. Minister Danny Kennedy, left, with “We are very pleased to have been Cammell Laird Director Rob McBurney Mr Platten continued: awarded the contract for the “These figures show the extent to which construction of the new Strangford the UK is facing unprecedented Ferry. The company has a long tradition competition from abroad. Shipping of ship building and we look forward to Ferry industry adds moves 90% of global trade, and ships working with the Department over the another million can register in a wide variety of coming years.” countries, all of whom are competing The new ferry will have capacity for 28 cars passengers with each other for maritime business.” and 260 passengers and will share the ferry Britain’s ferry industry continued its revival The statistics come shortly after operation on a rotational basis with the MV in 2014 on over 75 routes, posting government announced a Maritime Growth PORTAFERRY II. This will provide improved increases across the board for passengers, Study , to ensure the UK can compete capacity and remove the need for a 7.5 cars and coaches carried during last year.

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According to 2014 Ferrystat figures by industry are the market leaders with 33%, Government’s commitment to sustain body, Discover Ferries, passenger numbers were compared to approximately 23% by air, this important national capability. We up 2.6% or a full million in 2014, to 39.01m 23% by Eurotunnel and 21% by Eurostar are committed to working with the (compared with 38.01m in 2013). - and other ferry markets like Holland, Government, the Ministry of Defence Northern Ireland, and Scotland are all and our partners in the maritime supply Passenger cars carried by ferry were up showing strong passenger growth. chain to ensure the Royal Navy has the 1.6% at 8.5m, and over 163,300 coaches capability it needs to protect national were carried by ferry in 2014, an increase Consumers are now very savvy about interests, while ensuring the best value of 3.1% . getting the best value and minimising for money for UK taxpayers. hassle when they travel - especially with 2014 was the second successive year their families. They realise that taking Through the Type 26 programme, we are showing annual growth of a million your car by ferry is a smart way to transforming the way we design and passengers by ferries – increasing, in round achieving a new sense of travelling manufacture naval ships with innovative terms, from 37m passengers in 2012 to freedom, with no baggage charges.” new technologies, leading-edge 38m in 2013 and 39m in 2014. processes and modern infrastructure. Overall, Continental ferry routes were the New ways of working ensure we can strongest passenger growth sector in 2014, BAE Systems continue to deliver the highest quality up 3.7% to 18.32m with the key Dover- welcomes equipment at the lowest possible cost Calais/Dunkirk short Channel routes and compete effectively for future UK operated by DFDS, P&O Ferries and Government and international orders.” MyFerryLink up 4.4% to 13.29m. North Sea announcement on Welcoming the announcement, the Prime routes to Holland by DFDS, P&O Ferries and Minister said: Stena Line were up 2.9% to 1.75m Type 26 Global “This is a substantial investment in our passengers, with the western Channel Combat Ship shipbuilding industry, safeguarding the sector, operated by Brittany Ferries and jobs of 600 workers in Scotland and many DFDS, up 1.5% to 2.85m. BAE Systems has welcomed a recent more across the UK. Investing in these Ferry passengers travelling to Ireland by announcement by Prime Minister David warships will ensure we continue to keep operators including Irish Ferries, P&O Cameron confirming the UK Government’s our country safe, at home and abroad. continued commitment to sustaining Ferries and Stena Line, were up 1.4% As part of our long term economic plan, national sovereign capability to deliver overall in 2014 to 4.87m, with the central we’re not just building the most complex warships to the Royal Navy corridor Holyhead and Liverpool routes to advanced modern warships in the world Dublin the best-performing sub-sector, The £859 million demonstration contract – we are building the careers of many showing 2.9% growth to 2.13m passengers. for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship comes young people with apprenticeships that on the back of the recent contract for Domestic mainland ferry routes were up will set them up for life.” three Offshore Patrol Vessels, which are 1.8% overall to 15.83m passengers overall, The Type 26 demonstration contract builds already under construction in Glasgow. The with Scottish routes performing best, up on the initial assessment phase and takes contract will help to support the UK’s 3.9% to 6.19m passengers served by ferry effect from 1 April 2015, marking the next vibrant industrial base, including more than lines like Cal-Mac and Northlink. Isle of significant stage of the programme to 600 jobs in Scotland and over 1000 more Wight passenger figures via operators such support progression towards the throughout the UK in both BAE Systems as Red Funnel and Wightlink, rose 0.7% to manufacturing phase, which is expected to and its supply chain. The Company is also 8.64m in 2014. begin in Glasgow in 2016. It will involve driving continued investment in education approximately 30 companies in the Of the 8.5million passenger cars and training with its largest ever maritime supply chain and will enable the transported by all ferries in 2014, up 1.6%, recruitment of apprentices and graduates, investment in essential long-lead items, the key growth in 2014 came from the including 220 in its Naval Ships business, including equipment such as gas turbines, domestic ferry sector, up 2.2% to 3.53m the majority of which are in Glasgow. diesel generators and steering gear for the cars, followed by Irish Sea, up 2.1% to first three ships, as well as the creation of 1.15m, with cars to the Continent by ferry shore-based testing facilities. up 0.9% to 3.82m. The programme envisages the delivery of Passenger coach trips by ferry continued a 13 Type 26 ships to the Royal Navy. The healthy upward trend, up 3.1% in 2014 to first vessel is due to enter service in the over 163,300, led with those to the early 2020s and the Type 26 class is Continent accounting for nearly 110,000 expected to remain in service until 2060. coach movements by ferry, up 6.2% on 2013. Said Discover Ferries Director Bill Gibbons: “It has been another strong year for UK The Type 26 Global Combat Ship. World’s largest ferry industry, putting on more than a (Courtesy: BAE systems) offshore wind farm million passengers for the second year in BAE Systems Chief Executive, Ian King, said: succession, with us now in striking “We have a long and proud heritage of gains consent distance of 40 million passengers for 2015. delivering complex warships in the UK The giant Dogger Bank Creyke Beck In the all-important France market, with and today’s announcement is a offshore wind farm has gained consent 15.9m passenger journeys in 2014, ferries significant endorsement of the from the Energy Secretary Edward Davey. www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 735 Latest News

in the middle of the North Sea, comprising hundreds of offshore wind turbines over 80 miles off shore.” Dogger Bank demonstrates the sheer potential of offshore technology to turn our vast ocean and wind resources into green energy. It is a project that pushes the offshore engineering envelope - demonstrating how far this technology has evolved in the ten short years since the first major offshore wind farm was installed in North Hoyle just 5 miles from shore. The Dogger Bank projects now in planning could supply around 5% of UK electricity. We need to make sure that this project as well as other worthy offshore projects around these islands are adequately supported and funded. In return, offshore wind will generate much more than just electricity: it will turn the country into a green-economy powerhouse, creating jobs and business growth for years to come. Finally, we offer our congratulations for the team at the Forewind consortium taking this project to its consent. The project is being developed by Forewind, a venture between four international energy companies: SSE Renewables, RWE, Statoil and Statkraft. Unsatisfactory compliance with hours of rest In recent years there has been a growing concern regarding hours of rest for watchkeeping personnel. Supported by PSC inspection results and a number of incidents, the Paris and Tokyo MoU, as well as other MoUs, decided to organize a joint campaign to verify a list of 10 selected Dogger Bank Creyke Beck is the largest development across the world. It is also the items against the STCW requirements. consented offshore wind project in the first consented phase of the much larger world, with an installed capacity of up to Dogger Bank zone, which comprises six The CIC questionnaire was completed 2.4 gigawatts (GW), enough to meet the sites with an estimated total capacity of up during 4,041 inspections. A total of 912 needs of 1.8 million households, and on its to 7.2GW. CIC-related deficiencies were recorded and own supply around 2.5% of UK electricity. 16 ships (14% of the detentions) were Dogger Bank Creyke Beck will now enter a detained as a direct result of the CIC during The proposed site of the two adjacent wind pre-construction phase, before the final the 3 month period. farms (Creyke Beck A and B) is 81 miles investment decision is made. It could create Secretary General Richard Schiferli from the shore at its closest point, covering up to 4,750 new direct and indirect full expressed serious concerns: a maximum area of 430 square miles. Each time equivalent jobs over the 25-year “Insufficient rest of watchkeeping of the sites will have a capacity of up to lifespan of the project. personnel has already caused several 1.2GW, and would reduce carbon emissions incidents over the past years. It may be by almost four million tonnes a year. RenewableUK’s Director of Offshore Renewables, Nick Medic, said: the cause of fatigue, which can have It is the furthest offshore wind project from “This is an awesome project. It will surely major consequences for safety and the UK shores, while remaining in shallow be considered as one of the most environment. 2 watch systems are waters of approximately 30 metres. This significant infrastructure projects ever particularly vulnerable in this respect”. means that it will be at the cutting edge of undertaken by the wind industry. A During the campaign most inspections advancements in offshore wind farm colossal wind energy power station right concerned general cargo/multi-purpose

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ships with 1,207 (30%) inspections, including guidelines on fatigue in nine South East Asia,” said Pottengal Mukundan, followed by bulk carriers with 948 (23%) modules, which was issued in 2001. The director of IMB and Member of the MPHRP inspections, container ships with 407 (11%) MSC in 2014 agreed on the need to review Board. “Gangs of armed thieves have inspections, chemical tankers with 375 and update the guidelines. attacked small tankers in the region for (9%) inspections and oil tankers with 325 their cargoes, many looking specifically for (8%) inspections. 11 (70%) of the detained marine diesel and gas oil to steal and then ships were general cargo/multipurpose Violent crime against sell.” The IMB highlighted the death of a ships, 3 (19%) were bulk carriers, 1 crew member shot in an attack on a container ship and 1 other ship type. Seafarers bitumen tanker in December as a possibility Analysis of the recorded deficiencies shows Responding to recent articles and reports the incidents were becoming more violent. on current levels of maritime piracy, the that most deficiencies relate to hours of The UK Chamber of Shipping has warned Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response rest not being recorded correctly in 449 that progress made in the Indian Ocean Programme (MPHRP) has recently cases (11%), watchkeeping personnel did should not mask significant security threats highlighted the worrying trend that they not have sufficient rest in 203 cases (5%) to shipping and seafarers in other regions, appear to avoid the word piracy in favour and bridge lookout not maintained in 101 both off West Africa and in South East Asia of new forms of criminality , specifically cases (3%). A total of 21 inspections – where a violent petro-piracy is thriving. attacks and hijacking . According to the revealed that the manning level was not in UK Chamber CEO, Guy Platten, said that in MPHRP, putting the technical differences accordance with the Minimum Safe these regions violent acts of maritime denoted by these terms aside, a basic truth Manning Document. crime take place within the waters of is veiled: that violent crime is committed functioning states. “This new form of The flag with the highest number of CIC- against seafarers. topic related detentions was Moldova with maritime criminality, which often has links 3 CIC-topic related detentions. Of Somali-based piracy in the Gulf of Aden to shore-based oil theft, is taking place and Indian Ocean - the one region where within the jurisdictions of functioning The inspections showed that a total of the term piracy is accurately applied - Hon. nation-states, but ones that pay little 1268 ships were operating with a 2 watch Abdalla Jama Saleh, the Minister for attention to maritime security and system for the navigational watch and 13 Maritime Transport, Ports and Counter governance,” Platten said. “Put simply, of these ships were detained.. Piracy for Puntland, states that the pirates these regions have become a breeding The CIC was a joint campaign with the are “not defeated but dormant.” ground for future pirates.” Tokyo MoU. Other co-operating MoUs Jama Saleh is charged with leading have followed the same routine during The Maritime Trade Information Sharing Somalia’s counter piracy efforts by working the campaign. Centre (MTISC) (Gulf of Guinea) guidance with the international community to fight adds that seafarers themselves are key to The detailed results of the campaign will be piracy inland and along the coast of combating piracy in the region: “Experience further analysed and findings will be Puntland. He spoke to Defence IQ about has shown in other parts of the world that presented to the 48th meeting of the Port the decline of piracy off the Somali coast maritime security cannot be improved by State Control Committee in May 2015, and how that has now given rise to new the actions of law enforcement agencies after which the report will be submitted to maritime challenges in the Gulf of Aden. In and militaries alone; it requires the full the International Maritime Organization. tandem with his remarks, it must be noted support of seafarers operating in the that the international community’s naval region. This is more important in the seas operations in the Indian Ocean, ATALANTA off West Africa where navies, coastguards Revision of fatigue and OCEAN SHIELD have been extended and law enforcement agencies have limited guidance initiated until the end of 2016 amid warnings that, resources.” It follows that seafarers need to while Somali-based piracy in the Indian be made aware and be adequately at IMO Ocean is held in check by multinational equipped to counter piracy. naval operations, pirates retain their A review of the IMO guidelines on fatigue Similarly, the Asian Ship Owners Forum has has been initiated, at the second meeting capability to resume attacks, hijackings and hostage taking. “expressed its grave concern over the of the Sub-Committee on Human Element, growing threat of piracy in the waters of Training and Watchkeeping (HTW), 2-6 The United Nations’ Contact Group for West Africa”, adding that “experience has … February 2015), with the Sub-Committee Piracy off the Coast of Somalia has also shown us that prompt and decisive action agreeing the work should be completed been given an extended mandate by its must be taken to nip the threat of piracy over the next two sessions. members. Meanwhile, 30 seafarers are still and armed robbery in the bud, before a It was agreed that the review should take a being held captive by pirates on Somali soil. handful of incidents can grow into a holistic approach, taking into account a risk In its recently released 2014 piracy report, regional or even global problem that based approach; the impact of fatigue at the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) threatens the lives and well-being of all levels (i.e. all stakeholders); and that the announced that ship hijackings in South thousands of seafarers”. outcome should provide practical tools for East Asia spiked in 2014. While there have Roy Paul, Programme Director of MPHRP, fatigue management. been fewer overall reports of piracy attacks said, “At the end of last year our team in (245, according to the IMB), the number of IMO adopted Assembly resolution A.772(18) South East Asia were involved in hijackings in 2014 totalled 21 compared to on fatigue factors in manning and safety, responding to the death of Mr. Tran Duc 12 in 2013. in 1993. This was followed with the Dat, 3rd Engineer of the Vietnam flagged development of comprehensive guidance “The global increase in hijackings is due to M/T VP ASPHALT 2. The seafarers were tied on fatigue mitigation and management, a rise in attacks against coastal tankers in up and the pirates searched a number of www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 737 Latest News

crew cabins and stole personal effects. The physical working conditions, potentially Safety and Health Branch at the United pirates then left the vessel and made their hazardous tasks, isolation, long hours of Kingdom’s Maritime and Coastguard escape. The third engineer was found in his work, rigid organizational structures and Agency, said, “We are pleased to have cabin having been shot in the forehead. high levels of stress and fatigue. agreed these guidelines for competent Welfare responders from MPHRP assisted authorities on the implementation of this the family through the repatriation and important aspect of the MLC, 2006. The burial of their loved one. He leaves a wife final document provides flexibility without and two young daughters and MPHRP also compromising on standards of occupational assisted other crew members after these safety and health to protect seafarers, and violent events”. MPHRP is assisting nearly will be a useful resource for those setting 500 seafarers and their families who have up or reviewing their OSH frameworks in been affected by piracy and armed robbery. compliance with the MLC, 2006.” The industry is already investing heavily in Over 40 ILO Conventions have already been shore side solutions to piracy. In Somalia adopted and numerous other instruments, several projects focus on creating jobs for codes of practice and guidelines have been Somali’s and intend to create and restore drafted on OSH since the ILO’s creation in law and order infrastructure to prosecute 1919. Some are sector-specific, such as the criminality. It is sad then, to report that in ILO code of practice on accident prevention comparison little is being done to address on board ships at sea and in port. Further the hardship of seafarers and families who OSH provisions are set out in instruments have lost their lives, their health, their adopted by the International Maritime freedom and livelihood to piracy while they Organization (IMO) . were simply doing the job that they were The MLC, 2006 was adopted in February, legally employed to do. ILO Safety and Health Guidelines 2006 by the International Labour It is our seafarers who bear the brunt of Conference. It includes Regulation 4.3 on “We are very pleased with the outcome of these criminal acts, irrespective of what health and safety protection and accident the work of the expert meeting this week. these crimes are called or how statistics are prevention, and the related Code, “to We believe in promoting compliance with counted. Ultimately, violent crime at sea ensure that seafarers’ work environment on the MLC and the new guidelines that we will affect the recruitment and retention of board ships promotes occupational safety have agreed will make an effective career seafarers. and health.” contribution to this,” said Tim Springett, The MPHRP warns against complacency. Vice-Chairman for the Employers’ Group. The ILO has estimated that 6,300 people die The MPHRP encourages continued efforts every day as a result of occupational The guidelines were discussed by a total of to ensure the safety of seafarers. The accidents or work-related diseases, adding 102 delegates, including, six government, MPHRP calls for seafarers to be made up to more than 2.3 million deaths per six shipowner and six seafarer experts, aware, to remain vigilant and to apply year. Costs can be devastating to workers’ observers and advisers from 42 other themselves to protective measures against families and their communities, while the governments, and observers from piracy. The MPHRP highlights the hardship economic burden of poor OSH practices is intergovernmental organizations and non- inflicted upon seafarers and families. estimated at 4 per cent of global gross governmental organizations. domestic product each year. The MPHRP pleads for simple acts of The meeting addressed all areas of humanitarian support for already affected In their concluding document, experts said seafarers’ occupational safety and health, seafarers and families and it can be the OSH measures “should not be seen as including such areas as alcohol and drug contacted on [email protected] or an economic cost but as an investment to abuse, violence and harassment, and www.mphrp.org continuous improvement to the safety and infectious diseases. The document details health of seafarers.” responsibilities for governments, shipowners and seafarers related to The Guidelines can be downloaded from: New safety and accident and illness prevention practices, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/— health guidelines to implementation, training and emergency ed_dialogue/sector/documents/normativein and accident response. strument/wcms_325319.pdf protect seafarers Also noting that he too was pleased with Recognizing the special needs of seafarers, the experts’ results, Patrice Caron, Executive experts have agreed on guidelines to assist Vice-President of the Seafarers’ Her Majesty The governments to implement occupational International Union of Canada, said, “There Queen names safety and health provisions previously set will be many challenges to implement down in the Maritime Labour Convention, occupational safety and health in the BRITANNIA 2006 (MLC, 2006) . maritime sector. The guidelines should Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by Intended to provide supplementary practical provide assistance. Minimizing risk is a His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, information to be reflected in national laws fundamental concern to seafarers and for named the new P&O Cruises vessel and other measures, the OSH guidelines the others persons working on ships.” BRITANNIA at Ocean Terminal, deal with the special maritime working Speaking on behalf of the government Southampton, SO14 3QN, on Tuesday environment. This includes demanding group, Julie Carlton, Head of Seafarer March 10, 2015.

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a state-of-the-art theatre with LED wall, four pools, gym, and a multi-million pound art collection including a specially commissioned representation of the Spirit of Modern Britain from artist Johnny Bull. P&O Cruises also upheld its celebration of all things British by selecting sparkling wine from the Wiston Estate Winery in Sussex for the bottle smash moment at the naming ceremony. A nebuchadnezzar of the quintessentially British Brut NV was used for the ceremony itself while thousands of bottles of Brut NV and Rosé Vintage 2011 were enjoyed during the various inaugural events that were scheduled to take place around the launch. There have been two previous BRITANNIAs in P&O history. The first entered service in 1835 for P&O’s predecessor company, The General Steam Navigation Co. To celebrate BRITANNIA naming © P&O Cruises The naming was a milestone in British expert Charlie Turnbull. In the new Cookery the Golden Jubilee of both Queen Victoria maritime history and an event of great Club, a 24 person state-of-the-art cookery and P&O itself, the company built the national interest. school, these celebrity chefs and experts Jubilee Class of ships which consisted of the will demonstrate their culinary skills, and largest and grandest steamers (6,000 tons): Carnival UK chairman David Dingle said: will be joined throughout this year by other VICTORIA, BRITANNIA, ARCADIA and “We are honoured and proud that Her famous chefs including Mary Berry CBE, OCEANA. This second BRITANNIA entered Majesty will name Britannia almost 20 Pierre Koffmann, Paul Rankin and service in 1887 and was built in Greenock. years after she named the P&O Cruises Commendatore Antonio Carluccio OBE. The Jubilee class ships carried 250 first-class ship Oriana. passengers and 160 second-class passengers The new Epicurean restaurant is a multi- Britannia, a ship for the nation, will be and had a cargo capacity of approximately sensory cooking experience with touches of the embodiment of contemporary 4,000 tons. Winston Churchill sailed on molecular gastronomy to complement the Britain, and with her Union Jack livery BRITANNIA in 1888 to Bombay with his more traditional dishes, while the Limelight she will fly the flag for Britain across the hussar regiment before going on to fight on Club will combine a supper club with Globe.” the North West Frontier. contemporary entertainment. Britannia’s The biggest ship designed exclusively for bar highlights include the Great British Gin Britain, BRITANNIA is P&O Cruises’ latest Menu with 20 artisan gins in the Crow’s Ports News modern classic , heralding a new era of Nest cocktail lounge and the Great British holiday choice. Chief amongst her features Beer Menu with 70 UK bottled beers, ales ABP announces are her restaurants, bars and cafes, with and ciders in Brodie’s pub. Britannia’s most menus and culinary experiences created by outstanding design statement is reserved new-look Marine P&O Cruises’ Food Heroes ; James Martin, for her three-deck high atrium with department on the Marco Pierre White, Atul Kochhar, Eric illuminating Star Burst sculpture, and she Lanlard, wine expert Olly Smith and cheese also provides the largest British spa at sea, Humber BRITANNIA at sea © P&O Cruises

The Humber Team Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced changes within its marine department on the Humber, which will allow an improved service from a newly consolidated team. Capt Phil Cowing has taken up the newly created role of Head of Marine Humber, www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 739 Ports News

with responsibility for co-ordinating and Joe Anderson, to view progress on the leading all marine activity on the Humber, Topping out ceremony Port’s £300 million expansion project. reporting to John Fitzgerald, Director for £2 million plus Humber. Phil will also continue in his role as Marine Advisor to the ABP Board. Capt investment in Ipswich Andrew Firman replaces him as Harbour Master Humber. Capt Martin Gough, formerly Dock Master Humber, has taken up the new role of Marine Training Manager, reflecting the importance ABP is placing on its industry-leading Marine Apprenticeship Scheme. The scheme will be expanded in 2015 to include the first intake of Marine Pilotage Apprentices. Secretary of State for Transport and Ipswich Topping Out ceremony Mayor of Liverpool tour Port of Liverpool Capt Graham Hodge has been appointed as Associated British Ports, together with Dock Master Immingham; Capt Mike Dunn construction partner R G Carter, held a Construction is well underway on what will as Dock Master Hull & Goole; and Capt Phil traditional Topping Out ceremony at its be Europe’s first semi-automated container Christy as Dock Master and Operations £2.2 million new dry bulk warehouse at the port. When completed, the new Liverpool2 Manager Grimsby. Port of Ipswich. terminal will be able to accommodate The company has also seen changes with some of the world’s largest deep sea The new warehouse is 3,700 square meters container vessels. the pilotage service, with Matt Booth and will grow the ports’ already thriving moving up to the role of Deputy Pilotage bulk businesses, which handled over 2 Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin Manager Humber, and Andy Swift million tonnes of dry bulks in 2014. said: becoming Deputy Harbour Master and “Our record investment in Liverpool’s Pilotage Operations Manager Humber. Equipped with solar panels on the roof, the transport network is a huge boost to its warehouse, which is due to open in June Phil Cowing commented: economic growth, driven by the city’s 2015, will provide low carbon power for maritime and business ambitions. “Historically the ABP Humber ports and the port. It also uses motion sensor Humber Estuary Services (HES) have been Improved port, road and rail connections activated LED lighting to further reduce the will link people with thousands of new run as separate marine functions, but the carbon footprint. time is now right for a more integrated jobs in the region and encourage operational approach whilst still Andrew Harston, ABP Director, Short Sea businesses to grow. This government maintaining the transparency and Ports said: continues to build the infrastructure impartiality of HES for the provision of “This new warehouse facility which across the country that will deliver our pilotage and conservancy to all river users. would fill one half of the Ipswich Town long-term economic plan.” ground if erected at Portman Road is Mark Whitworth, Chief Executive of Peel An integrated approach removes fantastic news for both the port and the Ports, added: unnecessary duplication and region, bringing with it investment, jobs “We welcome the Government’s financial demarcation to provide a more and trade. streamlined and efficient service for the commitment to upgrading the road ABP ports, whilst HES will continue to It is a great display of what ABP can network in and around Liverpool. This provide high levels of service and do; working with our customers to will further improve access between the support for customers at the non-ABP develop facilities that help their port and the motorway network. locations throughout the harbour area business to grow and drive increases in operational efficiency.” We are investing to grow the port and the wider stakeholder groups.” significantly and believe that Liverpool He added: Together with its customers, ABP Ipswich will increasingly be seen as a preferred “These are exciting times for the Humber supports 1,812 jobs locally and contributes option as cargo owners discover the with planned growth on both banks to £122 million to the regional economy. benefits of delivering their products and support the offshore renewables industry goods much nearer to their end as well as plans to relocate VTS Humber destination. Liverpool’s location at the from Spurn Point to a new integrated Secretary of State for heart of the UK offers a distinct Humber Marine Control Centre at Grimsby. Transport and Mayor advantage, with over 65% of the population of the UK and Ireland living The concept of an integrated marine of Liverpool tour within a 150 mile radius of the city. team should serve us well in managing future growth and changing traffic port’s new terminal Having a more integrated transport patterns in the Humber and sits well infrastructure in place to be able to carry with the concept of continuous construction freight inland across the heartland of the improvement enshrined in the Port Peel Ports, operators of the Port of UK will enable faster, more efficient and Marine Safety Code (PMSC), the national Liverpool, welcomed the Right Honourable more environmentally advantageous standard against which all Harbour Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State delivery. The investment will drive jobs Authorities are measured.” for Transport and the Mayor of Liverpool, and deliver international trade – that

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represents a huge opportunity to The alliance has added DP World rebalance the UK economy.” Southampton as a new port of call to give customers more choice and in response to Last year Prime Minister, David Cameron, cargo owners that have expressed a announced a £150m partnership to create preference to use the Southampton the first canal-linked logistics park in the container terminal. UK, with a direct feed from Liverpool2, connecting directly to a number of port The new service will be called Condor by centric logistics hubs along the Manchester MSC and AE9 by Maersk Line. It will Ship Canal via barge, further strengthening initially deploy vessels of between 9,500 the region’s supply chain capabilities. and 12,500 TEU. For Maersk Line it will CSCL BLOBE arriving at Felixstowe mean a return to Southampton as a vessel The Port of Liverpool is connected to other The ship is operated by China Shipping provider, after an absence of nearly 5 years. parts of the UK by 10 motorways within a Container Line on its AEX1 (Asia Europe For MSC it is a continuation of the service 10 mile radius, numerous rail connections Express) service. Felixstowe is its first port that has historically been offered on CMA and the Manchester Ship Canal. The largest of call in Europe. CGM’s FAL1 and FAL3 services. volume and density of large warehousing Commenting on the call, Mr Zhang (over 9k sq m) of any UK region is located Commenting on the new alliances, Chris Zhendong, Managing Director of China within a 70 mile radius around Liverpool. Lewis, Managing Director, DP World Shipping (U.K) Agency Co Ltd., said: The Port provides direct connections to Southampton, said: “The CSCL Globe is the largest ship ever Southampton, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le “Everything is being super-sized. The to be operated by China Shipping and Havre via Peel Ports’ own and third party emergence of these big shipping alliances the first of five similar-sized vessels we feeder operators. now brings bigger ships with even bigger will be introducing into our Asia Europe discharges which still need fast, flexible Express service this year. The Port of The world’s top and reliable services. DP World Felixstowe has been our UK port of call Southampton has continued to keep pace since we first began the service 16 years shipping lines bring with the changing shape of the shipping ago. It has grown with us and continues industry. We’ve got the infrastructure, a to be the best location from which to new customers to new berth and deep-water access, as well serve the crucially important UK market.” as a proven track record for fast and Southampton reliable productivity.” Clemence Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of The biggest shipping lines have teamed up the Port of Felixstowe, added: DPWS has invested heavily in its people, to create two new super alliances which will “We are delighted that China Shipping systems and equipment in order to future see new customers and vessels calling at DP has chosen Felixstowe as CSCL Globe’s proof its business and to have the World Southampton’s container terminal. first port of call in Europe. Our capability to handle the needs of its relationship with China Shipping dates The shipping line alliance Ocean Three, existing and new customers. officially called at DP World Southampton back to 1999 when their first vessel (DPWS) with its first service on Monday 9 DPWS opened its new deep water berth – called at Felixstowe, and we are February. This was followed by a new capable of handling the largest ships afloat honoured that they continue to make service operated by 2M, an alliance of the and under construction in March 2014. This Felixstowe their UK port of call. We are world’s two largest shipping lines, on was followed by a multimillion pound the major gateway for trade between Tuesday 17 February. dredging program undertaken by Associated the UK and China and the CSCL Globe is British Ports, the port authority. Both a magnificent testimony to the The Ocean Three partners are CMA CGM, a developments ensure that these ocean giants importance of the Europe - Asia trade. longstanding customer at Southampton; can access the terminal all year round. United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), We are continuing to expand our who has called at Southampton on In 2014 DP World Southampton was awarded facilities and increase the number previous occasions; and China Shipping the Global Port Operator of the Year at the container cranes to handle these very Container Lines (CSCL), who already Lloyd’s List Global Awards. The award was large ships. Together with the unrivalled charters slots on Southampton services. The presented in recognition of the terminal’s skill and experience of our dedicated Ocean Three alliance will have two services well-executed investments, cost saving workforce, this enables us to turn even at Southampton, replacing two existing strategies and market-leading reputation for the biggest container ships around as CMA CGM services, still to be called the customer service and efficiency. quickly as possible, providing first class FAL1 and the FAL3. service to our customers.” China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), World’s largest The CSCL GLOBE was built by Hyundai who has been traditionally a customer of Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan, South the Port of Felixstowe, will be taking slots on container ship Korea. At 400 metres long, she is the length the CMA CGM services into Southampton makes maiden call of four football pitches and weighs as The 2M alliance had their maiden call on much as 14,500 London buses. Tuesday 17 February with the 9,600 TEU at Port of Felixstowe The Port of Felixstowe is the largest SUSAN MAERSK. The 2M alliance was The world’s largest container ship, the container port in the UK. It benefits from formed between Maersk Line and 19,100 TEU CSCL GLOBE, has made its being the closest UK container port to the Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), which maiden call at the Port of Felixstowe, the main ports of Northern Europe and having are the world’s two leading shipping lines. Port of Britain. direct marine access from the North Sea. www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 741 Ports News

As well as the Port of Felixstowe, the CSCL manoeuvrability, it is thought LONDON Chris Langham, Chairman of Portland GLOBE called at Rotterdam, Hamburg, TITAN will easily fill the void left by the PLA’s Harbour Authority said: Zeebrugge, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, HOOKNESS and CROSSNESS salvage ships. “The Board of Directors would like to Yantian and Port Kelang. thank Mr Davies for all his hard work Peter Steen added: and dedication over the last 18 years in “The arrival of TITAN will enable us to driving the business forward through completely modernise the way we work many varied challenges. We wish him Time for Titan – on the river and provide a safe working well for the future”. PLA’s £7 million platform for our mooring, maintenance and navigational jobs. Mr Bill Reeves, who has a wealth of senior superboat launches management experience across many She is far more capable than the vessels LONDON TITAN – the Port of London industries, has been appointed interim she’s replacing, while her plough Authority’s (PLA) new and unique multi- Chief Executive until a permanent dredging capacity adds an extra element purpose mooring maintenance vessel – will appointment is made. to the services we provide. That should help modernise how the authority works also mean less need for dredging by and provide a safe work platform for staff. other areas of the PLA and, therefore, reduce costs.” DP World London Peter added that her name is a hat-tip to Gateway announces one of PLA’s former sea cranes. third berth plans LONDON TITAN will remain at Manor Marine, Portland, for fitting out and sea The Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick trials, before going on display at marine McLoughlin MP, visited the state-of-the-art trade fair Seawork , in Southampton, in port at DP World London Gateway with mid- June. It is hoped she’ll get to work on local MPs on 10 February 2015. He climbed the Thames shortly afterwards. one of the world’s tallest quay cranes to view the location of the new berth which LONDON TITAN Peter Steen said: will increase deep-sea access for ships Speaking just days after LONDON TITAN “She looks great, even better than carrying UK imports and exports. was launched into crystal clear waters at expected. The view from the bridge is Portland Harbour, Dorset, PLA director of fantastic, not only from a navigational marine operations Peter Steen said that the point of view. There is also a remarkable boat will be in service by summer.” view of the working area on-deck.” Representing the PLA’s single biggest investment of the past 20 years, versatile LONDON TITAN which cost £7 million, is Portland Harbour essential for a port that welcomes Authority Chief everything from container ships to HMS INVINCIBLE, tall ships to rowing boats. Her Executive stands down unique design means she can work both at Portland Harbour Authority has announced The location of the DP World London sea and in shallower waters all the way up that its Chief Executive, Steve Davies, is to Gateway Port, which has 16 million to Richmond Lock, as her folding deck step down from his current role to consumers within 50 miles, enables imports cranes will allow safe passage through the concentrate on establishing a new to enter the UK closer to where the goods bridges of central London. LONDON TITAN’s Management Consultancy business, based will be consumed. regular work is expected to include: at Portland. Bringing ships closer to key areas of • Laying, maintaining and repairing Mr Davies has overseen the establishment consumption such as London, Birmingham moorings and development of Portland Harbour and Manchester, reduces the need to truck • Laying buoys Authority and Portland Port since its goods many miles inland, thereby removing • Hauling wreckage from the bottom of inception in 1996 turning it into today’s unnecessary supply chain costs. In addition, the river thriving Port business which handles over rail services from the port now call at 11 • Supporting dive operations 700 vessel calls each year and employs over destinations across the UK, offering a highly efficient alternative to road freight. • Carrying out ‘plough’ dredging 650 people on its dock estate. operations Mr Davies said: The Berth Three announcement will enable • Supporting third-party projects when “I would like to thank the Board of the use of an additional 400 meters of needed. Directors and Management staff of the quay length with a dredged depth of 17 Weighing more than 600 tonnes with a Port authority for their professionalism meters alongside. DP World London 36.5-metre length, 13.5-metre width and and support over the last 18 years in Gateway port can easily handle the largest three powerful engines, LONDON TITAN’s what has been a very interesting and container ships and has developed cranes will be capable of lifting loads of up challenging journey to establish the Port innovative technology to ensure the port to 25 tonnes. She’ll work to keep busy river from start up to its current successful remains open in bad weather. channels marked for trade, travel and sport. commercial enterprise, and I wish it ever Contracts have been awarded to With sheer raw power wedded to continuing prosperity and success”. VolkerFitzpatrick for civil and electrical

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works and four new quay cranes have been Centre, our Common User Facility, is also The project was selected for EU funding ordered from ZPMC. The third berth is on track to open in Q2 this year and we with the assistance of external experts planned to be operational in the second are in advanced negotiations with under the TEN-T Multi-Annual Call 2013, half of 2016. several more clients for the Park.” priority Motorways of the Sea . Its implementation will be monitored by INEA, DP World London Gateway management Maritime, the largest UK container haulage the European Commission’s Innovation and showed the Transport Secretary the scale of company, is now establishing a base at DP Networks Executive Agency. the port as well as the adjacent London World London Gateway. Gateway Logistics Park. The project is to be completed by the end Pentalver, the leading container solutions of 2015. Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick company, is also constructing a new facility McLoughlin MP, said: which will open soon. “The continued expansion of London DP World London Gateway, Engineering Gateway Port proves Britain is a country Features Director, Andrew Bowen, said: where companies want to invest. “Last week we saw our busiest day since Jotting Monthly The new third berth announced today operations began with both our existing will create many new jobs and is a signal berths simultaneously handling ultra- Glyn L Evans that the UK maritime sector is large container vessels, the Maersk Canada Creek continuing to grow. The maritime sector Edinburgh and Hamburg Süd’s Cap San directly contributes £14 billion to our class, with strong performance ship-side Canada Creek is a quiet backwater off economy every year and supports more and landside. Birkenhead’s West Float dock system; a than a million jobs. maritime cul-de-sac whose latter function Our ability to compete with other UK was to accommodate the barges used to Having visited the port I have seen for ports is now well proven. We will unload grain from ocean-going vessels. On myself what a fantastic piece of continue to attract more services and the 1875 Ordnance Survey map of infrastructure it is and the opportunity deliver world-class efficiency, at less cost.” Birkenhead, the Creek is shown as Brassey that exists for even further growth and & Logan’s Cut; Brassey being one of the expansion at this site. EU to support better contractors to carry out engineering work Putting in place the right foundation to for the Grand Canadian Trunk Railway. This allow businesses like DP World to prosper sea connections across would perhaps explain why it became in the UK is part of the government’s the Dover Strait known as Canada Creek. In the period 1945 long term economic plan.” to 1955 Birkenhead, on the south bank of The EU’s TEN-T Programme will back with the River Mersey, was one of the largest DP World Vice Chairman, Jamal Majid Bin- over €14 million the improvement of the flour-milling centres in the world. Home to Thaniah, said: sea connection between Dover in The UK Spillers, Rank, Hovis and McDougall, it was “Since opening, DP World London and Calais in France. The developments only beaten into second place by the Gateway has continued to attract more include better traffic management, berth combination of St Paul and Minneapolis on shipping line services and we remain enhancements and a new rail freight the shores of the Great Lakes. committed to increasing speed and connection between Calais and efficiency in supply chains. Today’s southern France. The Creek was long enough for three announcement is good news for our barges to moor alongside the warehouse customers who are at the heart of The project will focus on innovative wharf and wide enough for another barge everything we do.” solutions to adapt and enhance the current to be manoeuvred in or out of the main transport infrastructure and improve the dock. Redundant by the end of the 1950s, DP World London Gateway, CEO, Simon traffic management across the Strait of the Creek might have remained unknown Moore, said: Dover. The project’s activities include: to me but for the fact that, on the side “As the port continues to win new opposite the grain warehouse stood the business, we are now announcing Berth • The construction of a secure holding Boat Station of the 64 th Birkenhead Sea Three in-line with our customers’ needs facility for 220 freight vehicles in the Scout Group of which I was a Patrol Leader. and we are delighted the Transport port of Dover and optimisation of the The Boat Station was a large wooden Secretary was able to visit the port and traffic management to reduce the structure with a big sliding door facing on see for himself the facilities and congestion in the port and its hinterland to the Creek and it housed the Sea Scouts’ infrastructure we have created to reduce • Berth enhancements in Dover and Calais fleet of rowing dinghies, four in all, and a supply chain costs.” for a safer, faster, more reliable and robust welcome of larger ferries to Cadet sailing dinghy. Being an enthusiastic th He continued: reduce their stay in port member of the 64 , with a dream of going “This is a very busy time for the team • The construction of a multimodal to sea, I spent a great deal of my spare and I would like to praise them for their platform leading to better links between time there, especially in early spring when achievements. On Friday, last week, we the UK, the Benelux countries and the boats were to be rubbed down with welcomed the Global CEO for Prologis, northern Spain wet & dry then painted ready for the Hamid R. Moghadam, and launched our sailing season. The action will have a positive impact by 316,000 square foot joint venture encouraging modal shift and reducing the The Boat Station had no form of heating distribution centre, which will be ready carbon footprint of transport; as well as and could be a cold and draughty place for occupation later this year. decreasing road congestion and the when the wind whistled through the The DP World London Gateway Logistics negative environmental impact. shiplap timbers that formed the building’s www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 743 Features

cladding. The only nod towards creature oarsman ending up on his back on the harpoon the log. If a sufficient number of comfort was an electric kettle, so body bilge boards. scouts turned up on parade, the decision warmth was sustained by frequent mugs of might be made to take Clan out for a row. Gradually with practice a steady, co- tea or coffee to which condensed milk, She was an ex-Clan Line vessel’s lifeboat, ordinated pull would be achieved and the squeezed from a tube, was added to serve wooden built and around 18ft in length, dinghy’s bow would emerge from the Creek as both milk and sugar. quite a monster for us young lads to into the main dock, the West Float. handle. No lifting in and out here; she had A turn to port would take us past Liverpool her own boathouse and was moored afloat. Victoria Rowing Club, past the graving docks The oars themselves took some lifting so no and the storage tanks of United Molasses to fancy tossing of oars, it was all we could starboard [Wallasey] before gliding under do to lower them into the rowlocks the road bridge into Bidston Dock, the most without crushing our fingers on the north-westerly in the system, where the gunwales. It was just as well the dock giant ore-carriers had their cargo unloaded system was non-tidal as it took a great by gantry cranes into waiting freight effort to gain forward momentum in still wagons to be hauled by the Fender Valley waters. Progress against any sort of current Express up to Messrs. John Summers would have been sternways. steelworks at Shotton, near Chester. Another method to liven up the rowing was to ride the wake . The tug boats that brought the ore carriers up past the Creek to Bidston Dock would, once their job was complete, race down the dock system to lock out into the river before the tide fell. We would wait in the Creek until they The right to wear the Admiralty badge raced by then row out over their not- was granted to the 64th Birkenhead Sea inconsiderable wakes. It seems tame stuff Scout Group as approval of a set now but the water was cold and deep. standard following an annual inspection Health and safety was not an issue then, by the Port Admiral or equivalent rank Birkenhead docks Bidston iron ore we wore no life-jackets but had qualified During the summer months, on alternate for a place in the boat by being able to A turn to starboard out of the Creek took Thursdays, the Scout Troop meetings were swim two lengths of Livingstone Street us past cargo vessels moored at their held at Canada Creek and, following parade Baths in shirt, shorts and socks. designated Company wharves and sheds. and the raising of the Union Flag above the Most shipping lines had their vessels Boat Station door, the boating activities discharge general cargo at Liverpool then began. All the technical knowledge cross the river to load at Birkenhead. Ships acquired at Troop meetings during the of Bibby Line, Ellerman, Clan, Anchor and winter (knots and lashings, throwing a line Blue Funnel were always well represented, etc.) were put into practice, the big door together with a variety of foreign owned would be slid open and the dinghies hauled vessels and perhaps, out of season, an Isle to the dock edge from where they were of Man ferry boat or the ROYAL IRIS, a carefully lowered, stern-first, into the Wallasey Corporation ferry boat that made Birkenhead ore carrier water. There were two important things to summer-time cruises to the Mersey Bar and remember during this operation. One was Lifting the dinghies out of the water back. She was known locally as the fish & to lower slowly and gently to prevent cold required the concerted effort of three chip boat . water lapping over the transom which scouts, one on either side of the bow would give the skipper a wet seat when gripping the gunwale and one on the sitting in the stern sheet. Of greater painter. The water level in the dock could importance was remembering to have vary and when it was low, the job of someone holding on to the painter , the hauling out was that more difficult. rope attached to a cleat in the bows, to The knack was to push the bow down into avoid the ignominy of watching the boat the water then, as the buoyancy brought it drift away un-manned. up again, to harness that up-thrust with a heave upward and forward. The dinghies Once the crew were on board, usually two would then be turned over and the pair of oars and a skipper on the tiller, the bottoms mopped down with fresh water in orders would be given; “cast off bow and an attempt to remove the tide-mark stern”, “fend off bow”, “backwater caused by the oily waters of the dock. starboard” then “give way together”. At first it would be anything but “together” as the Birkenhead blue flue It was not un-known for local lads from bow oar would clash with the stroke oar To liven up the rowing we had one dinghy the North End of Birkenhead to swim in and crabs would be caught when, with an towing a log astern while a second, with Canada Creek, diving off the barges into enthusiastic pull on the oar the water the bowman wielding a boathook on a the murky waters. They would emerge would be missed completely, the hapless rope, would give chase in an endeavour to naked (you could not afford a cossie if you

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lived in Ilchester Square) from the water Even now, over fifty years later, on a warm, are all equally well observed and executed. with a tide-mark around their neck. The sunny spring day with a faint breeze Several of those that I had bought have practice was of course forbidden by the blowing, I can picture those happy times, been written on, franked, posted and dock authority and sometimes the watch with the water gently lapping the dockside delivered, including one with a ship’s keeper from the Dock Gate Office, on and the only other noise that of a seagull cancellation stamp from the purser’s office discovering the swimmers, would confiscate wheeling and dipping into Canada Creek. of the SS L’AVIATEUR ROLAND-GARROS, a their clothing left in bundles on the wharf. French passenger liner of the mid-1920s. The lads would then have to go cap (or Then named after the French World War l air whatever) in hand to the Gate Office to Peace-time postscript to the ace, Lt. Eugène Adrien Roland Georges retrieve their clothes and receive a stern postcards of Henri Gervèse Garros (1888-1918) shot down and killed telling-off from the watch keeper. These just before the Armistice, the ship had been lads gained their retribution by de-facing Charles Marie Joseph Millot, Legion launched in 1902 in Hamburg as the LUCIE the sign outside the dock gate which d’Honneur, DSC, Captain, French WOERMAN for the Woermann Line proudly proclaimed Mersey Docks and Navy (Ret.) 1880-1959 (Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie ) . She came first Harbour Co . Chalked underneath in a Dr Robert Bruce-Chwatt to Britain in 1920 when she was managed childish hand were the words “and little by New Zealand Shipping Co. and then lambs eat ivy”. finally to French colours as a war reparation in 1921, was renamed L’AVIATEUR ROLAND- The key to the Boat Station was kept at the GARROS and finally scrapped in 1931. Dock Gate Office and on collecting or dropping it off, one caught a tantalising glimpse of the interior; small gas stove, coal fire, kettle on the boil, rack of keys, polished brass lamps, large wall clock and a big book on a stand-up wooden desk to record the comings and goings through the gate. At the time it seemed like a job to Chance and a visit to a Paris flea market which one should aspire but with hindsight allowed me to buy some of the Merchant I suppose it was occupied by ancient Navy, passenger liner, series of Henri The French did have, as seen above, a very mariners who had slung their hook. Gervèse’s cards, drawn after he inexplicably irritating and incomprehensible habit of resigned his Naval commission on the 9th Many a time I found myself the only one at sticking the stamp on the illustrated side of November 1923. He had been ill for the first the Boat Station for painting duties and, if the card; their post office the equally time in his life from May to August of that the weather was fine and after a desultory irritating habit of getting as much ink on same year and had requested a prolonged dab of the paint brush, I would sit outside, the cancellation stamp as possible or even convalescent for personal reasons, but gave propped up against a bollard at the knuckle banging the stamp down twice. The no hint or reason either then or later for the of the dock wall with a mug of tea and octagonal shape of the cancellation mark decision that had astonished his friends and watch the world go by. Not much cargo indicates that this is an on-board fellow officers. The illness was not specified. working or movement of vessels on a cancellation in the purser’s office under Saturday but perhaps one being There appears then to have been a three International Paquebot rules. One wonders manoeuvred into the graving dock for year artistic hiatus until 1926, when he what more, in terms of minimal space repair. Tugs, pushing and pulling with much worked on a series of passenger liner cards gained, would have been written on the tooting of hooters to indicate intention, for Cie des Messageries Maritimes, these back of the card in the area of the would make easy work of lining up the were printed by Hermieux, Paris. At that proverbial postage stamp. In this case vessel to be centred on the keel blocks with time he was in fact working for Chargeurs about as little as either of them knew the help of a plumb line slung across the Reunis, a shipping company, and was based about philately and deltiology... dock and a man at the end waving his cap. in Belgium living at 5, rue Hélène, Antwerp. There really is absolutely no real gain at all With the graving dock gates closed, the He was divorced in 1929, the same year that from this, however the heading ports, water would be pumped out and the vessel he was appointed Inspector of the Northern written messages, signatures and dates on would settle its keel onto the blocks on the Ports for the Chargeurs Reunis. dock bottom. Timber booms were put into the other side at least allow one to follow a place along the stepped sides of the dock This continued until his next and final move, Line voyage through, if there are several to keep the vessel upright, then the repair in 1932, was somewhat further: Buenos from the same source to the same address. Aires. Here he becomes the joint work could begin. Best of all, however, was a complete series representative of Chargeurs Reunis and Sté of 12 mint cards in their original covering des Transports Martimes à Vapeur. He had brown envelope, priced at Frs. 2.25, of the remained on the Naval reserve list and now Gervèse Liner series printed by Max also served as the Naval attaché to the Gremnitz, Paris for the Messageries French Embassy to the Argentine at Buenos Maritimes . Interestingly, his name is Aires from 1932 until his death in 1959. His misprinted as Gervaise on the envelope and mortal remains were returned to France by has the remains of a small corrective sea and were buried near Besançon. erratum slip stuck over it. They are all The passenger liner series of cards, titled typical examples of Gervèse’s delightful and Birkenhead tug croquis d’escale or sketches of ports-of-call , acute observations of life at sea and ashore. www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 745 Features

My favourite is the card of that Imperial has partially collapsed? The dealers in who gave their lives in the Palestine and outpost, Hong Kong. La descente du pic precious stones are seen on-board ship Sinai campaign of 1915-1918. This simple, which shows a red-tabbed, moustachioed, again at Colombo, Ceylon. The one is the sombre and moving site on a small spit of riding crop, very relaxed and monocled foreground wears a fez and lungyi and is land at the southern end of the canal was army staff officer careering down from the trying to convince the doubting lady with deliberately destroyed during the Six-Day Peak in a sedan chair with two very anxious the lorgnette that his merchandise is by far War of 1967. The empty plinth is now coolies past a sentry presenting arms with the best, the ship’s nurse is seen in the covered in mindless graffiti, the two huge, both bayonet and expression as firmly fixed background and a solar topee’d French snarling stone tigers gone, but some of the as a stamp and heavily inked postmark.. colonial type is lounging at the ships rails name panels were rescued and relocated to and studiously ignoring another gem dealer. the Heliopolis War Cemetery at Cairo. He really should get the hotel derzi to let his trouser cuffs down. Fashion then held that men less than 5’10” tall should avoid trouser cuffs as it makes their legs appear shorter than they really are. Still true.

A turbaned Sikh policeman, with sword and spurs, on traffic duty in Singapore is The little local boys diving for pennies off pictured stopping a jin’rickshaw after an the ship’s side at Djibouti, French accident. The visiting French colonials are Somaliland, a colony from 1894-1947 in the both wearing their solar topees, the man in Gulf of Aden, the tricolour at the stern a the second jin’rickshaw, what appears to be splash of red. The woman seated with the wearing an ice-cream suit . The card is details of her ribbon tied shoes and entitled: Excès de vitesse - Speeding. deckchair just coming over the edge of the drawing; a clever and typical Gervèse touch.

At Port Saïd, a husband rides the donkey and his wife perches precariously on top of a camel for a ride in the desert to see the sights, both followed by the inevitable little boy in a grubby djellaba and wielding a stick. The latter probably assured her she would get to see the Pyramids from up there...but they are hundreds of miles away. The card is entitled: Port-Saïd - Une pointe dans le desert or Excursion into the desert , A snake charmer, seen here on the hotel but it would seem, not very far, as in the veranda in Colombo, Ceylon with the background the spars and smoking funnels steamers seen in the background. The wife of the steamers can be seen moored at Port grips her chair with both hands whilst the Tewfik. Here there was another Imperial alarmed husband’s solar topee appears to be site, where a First World War Memorial The other card for Djibouti, L’Instantané , more of a cloche hat, but perhaps it has stood, unveiled in 1926 to the Honour the shows a young woman taking a picture of been out in the tropical rain too long and 4,000 officers and men of the Indian Army the local children with a folding Kodak

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camera. A posted card with a 50 centimes For Saigon, a dragon festival and then a - Etudiantes chinoises) they were at Port stamp and cancelled on board as view of the Mekong river, as a sampan Saïd, the 30 centimes stamp has been Yokohama a Marseilles 11-03-1930. It nearly capsizes in the turbulent wake of a cancelled in the purser’s office on the 13 th shows the fascination of the local children French flagged liner, the basket of oranges July 1926 with an octagonal stamp with a folding Kodak camera. Dated 10 th spilling over board and into the water. The Marseille a La Reunion 2 and an arrival March 1930, it is addressed to Madame receding French flagged paquebot is not, it receipt stamped at 7:40 am at Saint Brice Bergonaz, Hué, Indo-chine Francaise, the would seem, the AVIATEUR ROLAND- post office on the 23 rd July 1926. A mere message brief: La belle vie continue!. GARROS, as this ship appears to have two ten days later; not bad at all, but with a Another, possibly Republican, habit of the funnels and the former had only one, being rather banal message from Charles and French, now as then, seems to be sticking 111 metres long, 9500 tonnes and having Pierrot! “Dear Mother, We’ve had a good stamps on anyway, but upright. La 61 first class, 76 second class and 42 third trip. Pierrot is playing well with the other Marianne deserves better, with the class berths. Paquebot is the French for a children on board. We embrace you whole tricolour cockade in her Phrygian cap! mail boat and ship mail, French being, by heartedly. Your son Charles and Pierrot”. International Treaty, the world’s official Not even any xxx. In both of the Djibouti cards Gervèse postal language. The term paquebot to One of the students below appears to be captures the features, varied clothing and denote ship-mail was first used by Great the more mature one and has Western expressions of the local children honestly Britain in 1894 and was adopted for shoes, whilst the other, Miss Willow and well; not like the series of very crude global use by the Universal Postal Union Blossom, might miss a few lectures and caricatures that Hergé drew for Tintin au in 1897, the word being derived from the seems unworried about having mislaid her Congo , when first published in 1930 as a English: packet boat , a boat carrying note case and far more worried about serial in Le Petit Vingtième magazine. packets of mail. Hergé’s were, in retrospect, very much smudging her nails. The detail of the criticised as racist. shadowed background is typical Gervèse with the tiny shadow of a pince-nez and In the rain in Yokohama, the waxed paper the one-button cap of the Mandarin in the umbrellas and the passers-by wearing jin’rickshaw on the left. There were nine raised wooden pattens to keep their jika- classes of Mandarin cap button by graded tabi shod feet clean and dry. To the left a colour, red the lowest and silver the ninth, man wearing a large round straw coolie above, curiously enough, gold which was hat, a kasa , struggling with a heavily laden only the eighth level. shoulder pole that spreads his cloak against the rain. Another of Gervèse’s carefully and well observed scenes.

On August 10 th , 1926 Charles and Pierrot had arrived and disembarked at Tamatave, now Toamasina, the main port of Of those cards that have been posted, Madagascar, once the realm of the two were sent from the ship the deranged, tyrannical and blood-thirsty AVIATEUR ROLAND-GARROS , by Queen Ranavalona (1778 - 1861), but since Monsieur Charles Boudou and his son At Nagasaki, an evening visit by a French 1897, a French colony, and which it Pierrot, to Charles’ mother at Bois de couple to a local restaurant; mulberry remained until 1960 and Independence. Vais, Saint Brice, Mayenne in France. In paper and lath shji screens. Straw boater The port of Tamatave is on the eastern side 1927 only 631 people lived in this small and cane handed over; their shoes coming of the island of Madagascar and is its commune and postcards from abroad, off and geishas, obi-sashed and waiting for commercial centre. Charles Boudou, using albeit with French stamps, would not guests. The jin’rishaw men just leaving, the Port-Saïd - Une pointe dans desert have been that common... lanterns glowing and reflected off the rain card writes that: “The baby is happy to go wet street. On July 14th, Bastille Day, 1926 ( Shang-Haï in a pram with Papa” , which rather www.hcmm.org.uk The Journal • Issue 1/2015 • Page 747 Features

confuses matters as to how young Master stamps to be cancelled with a stamp The Honourable Pierrot was or perhaps he was just an older, combining the name of the next port of very tedious child? There is, however, no call, the home port of the ship and the Company of Master mention of any wife or the mother of date of cancellation - the basis of Mariners Pierrot, so he must be a widower; a Paquebot , as mentioned earlier. divorced Catholic in the 1920’s French The only one that I do not have in this Editorial Colonial Service being highly unlikely. From here at five in the morning of the 14 th of series is the view from just above ship’s The views expressed in articles or in August 1926 they took the metre gauge bridge coming into the berth at Port Saïd correspondence appearing in the Journal steam train to Tananarive, the capital, with the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, are those of the writer and are not where Charles appears to have worked as a the developer of the Suez Canal, off the necessarily endorsed by the Honourable senior civil servant at the colonial treasury. starboard bow. The very impressive 33ft Company of Master Mariners. The card unstamped or franked went in an bronze by Emmanuel Frémiet and its official envelope this time. concrete plinth were unveiled on November Items appearing in the Journal may 17 th 1899 to greet ships entering the Canal not be reproduced without the The third card to Madame Boudou dated at Port Saïd; de Lesseps’ left hand holds a consent of the Editor. 14 th January 1928 ( Shang-Haï - La map of the canal, his right held open in The Editor will be pleased to receive brouette) has an even shorter message on welcome, though others less charitably, correspondence from Members intended their return journey to France: “A bientôt”. have said it is to take their money, the then for reproduction in the Journal. The 40 centimes stamp has been cancelled rates being: 5.75 gold francs per ton for in the purser’s office on the 21 st January steamers, plus 10 gold francs per passenger, Committees 1928 again with an octagonal purser’s children, generously, half that sum. stamp, La Reunion a Marseille 5 and a Education and Training Committee receipt stamped at 7:45 am at Saint Brice This is the cover of the 1920’s original, Chairman: Lieutenant Commander nd post office on the 5 th February 1926. though a 2 edition, of the Suez Canal Peter Aylott RN Fifteen days for it to get there this time map sold at 1/6d to canal transit Finance and Pensions Committee and the card may have arrived home after passengers. Published in English, French and Chairman: Mr Iain Stitt they did, this message just a brief German by August Rüsenberg of The salutation from Charles and Pierrot. Again Oriental Commercial Bureau at Port Saïd it Membership Committee the busy street scene, over-loaded cart and gives various statistics, a detailed drawing Chairman: Captain Ian Smith, FNI FRIN family are so well observed and the detail of the canal with sites and sights of Technical Committee wonderful. Two mandarins are seen in the interest and, as mentioned, the passage and Chairman: Captain Ian Giddings background one with a red-buttoned cap passenger dues. and the other with a gold buttoned cap. All correspondence, books, documents Gervèse certainly knew all about detail. or enquiries relevant to the work of the Technical Committee should be addressed to the Secretary, Mrs Alison Harris c/o HQS Wellington . Treasures Committee Chairman: Captain Graham Pepper, FNI Joint Informal Meetings Honorary Secretary: Captain Geoff Cowap Wardroom Mess Committee Chairman: Mr John Johnson-Allen The Journal Editor Commodore David Squire, CBE ‘Trees’, 45 Esp Lane, Barnoldswick, Lancashire BB18 5QQ Sadly the statue of de Lesseps was Tel: 01282 814998 demolished by the Egyptians with a charge The cards from the ship have French 30 of dynamite on December 24 th 1956 on All correspondence, articles and centimes stamps and have been cancelled the orders Colonel Nasser in the nationalist reports for the Journal should be sent on board ship with the internationally fervor after the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the to the Editor’s home address, or by agreed octagonal cancellation stamp of the failed Franco-British invasion of the Canal email to [email protected] purser’s office. This allowed any mail Zone. Later rescued by the Association des Copy for Issue 2/2015 of The Journal posted onboard whilst they were in Amis du Canal de Suez, it can be found, should be sent to the Editor by International waters to use the stamps of looking rather sad and decidedly out of Friday, 29 May , 2015 the country of registration of the ship at an place, in the dusty shipyard of Port Fouad agreed overseas charge, and for those and on a very inadequate plinth.

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