CONTACTS
I would greatly appreciate any technical, anecdotal
and photographic material that you have in relation to the theme
of this site. Please send info, material and comments to paul@rakaia.co.uk
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Links
History of New Zealand Shipping
Jeffrey Shaw’s extremely comprehensive website on New Zealand Shipping contains a history section that includes an on-line comments facility for recording anecdotal evidence and/or memories of life associated with New Zealand Shipping. You can visit his website at: http://www.newzealandshipping.co.nz/index.html
John Layte – Photos of Rakaia
Whilst serving as an apprentice on Rakaia in the 1960s, John took a considerable number of very good quality photographs, and you can view some of these on his website at:
http://www.ripvanrental.com/
Merchant Navy College Greenhithe
The Merchant Navy College at Greenhithe (1968-89) overlooked
the mooring place of the last HMS Worcester. You can learn more
about this college by visiting Paul Bird's web site at:
http://www.greenhithe.org.uk/
Robert G Lloyd – Marine Artist
Robert Lloyd is a Marine Artist with a worldwide reputation for
producing visually stunning and technically accurate paintings for
the Marine Industry, Private Individuals and Museum collections.
You can visit his web site at:
http://www.robertlloyd.co.uk
Victor Young – Photographer
You will see that some of the photographs on this web site are shown
with the kind permission of the V.H. Young & L.A. Sawyer Collection.
To find out more about this marvellous collection of photographs,
you can visit Victor’s web site at:
http://www.ship-photos.dynamic-site.net/
Durham Association
The Durham Association has origins in the epic Galveston Voyage
featured on the M.V. Durham Anecdotes page of this web site. Membership
of this Association is open to all those who served with the New
Zealand Shipping Company. To find out more, contact the Secretary
at:
rex.neate@talktalk.net
The British Merchant Navy – Looking for Old Friends
Brian Probetts runs an excellent web site dedicated to helping you
find a friend that you served with. You can visit his site at:
http://www.merchant-navy.net/
John Russell
John has kindly donated some wonderful photographs for display on
this web site. You can learn more about him and the books that he
has written by visiting his web site at:
http://mysite.freeserve.com/jr_books/index.htm
BISHIP
John Prescott has produced a web site called BISHIP that is devoted
to all subjects connected with the British India Steam Navigation
Company. The site provides information about BI, its ships, routes
and the people who manned the ships and ran the company. Not surprisingly,
the site is one of the contact points for former BI staff, and you
can visit it at:
http://www.biship.com/
The Marine Society
The Marine Society is the world's oldest seafarers' charity, committed
since 1756 to enhancing the well being of all who go to sea professionally.
It provides a range of valuable services for serving, former, and
intending seafarers. You can visit the Marine Society’s web
site at:
http://www.marine-society.org
David Thomas – Author of “The Right Kind of Boy”
David Thomas is the author of a social history of the apprentice
just published under his Phaiacia imprint.
Titled “The Right Kind of Boy: A portrait of the British sea
apprentice, 1830-1980”, it's in hard-back, 436pp with 60 b/w
photos, in a limited edition of 500 copies, priced (direct from
the author) at £27.50 incl p&p in the UK, more to overseas
addresses according to location.
Inquiries will be promptly answered: to the
author at argonaut.phaiacia@btopenworld.com.
Or phone 01639 830995 at any time.
Martin Southwood
Martin has produced a very interesting web site that contains
complete reproductions of “The Chantalian”, which was
the magazine produced by cadets serving their apprenticeship on
the British India cadet training ship Chantala. There are
currently 12 editions of “The Chantalian” on Martin’s
web site, and he would be very grateful to receive more.
You can visit his web site at:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/chantalian
Merchant Navy Officers
For information on a wide range of Merchant Navy topics,
you should visit:
http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/
HMS Worcester
Nicholas Mesinger has produced a web site that provides
details of the three vessels, each named HMS Worcester, which were
used by the Thames Nautical Training College for officer cadet training,
and you can visit this site at: http://www.tallshipsfeatures.co.uk/worcester.html
Elder Dempster Lines
Mike Ingham has produced an excellent web site designed
to provide an overview of Elder Dempster Lines in the 1960s, when
the company was at its postwar peak. You can visit his web site
at:
http://www.elderdempster.org/
ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT MUSEUM
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has a photographic archive
that contains the original photographs of many of the ships built
by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. For example, the painting of the
Calchas, by Robert Lloyd, was based on one of these photographs,
and the article on the "Obuasi Launch" contains other
examples from this excellent collection. For more information, visit
the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's web site at:
http://www.uftm.org.uk/
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