Following BORDER LAIRD sailing from Avonmouth on the afternoon tide of 4th November 1965, so exactly fifty years ago today, was Ellerman Lines' 1947 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, built CITY OF PRETORIA.

Early in 1967 she was sold to Japanese breakers through Greek intermediaries who renamed her PROXENEION. She sailed as such from Antwerp on 23rd February 1967 bound for Hsinkang (now Tianjin Xingang) via Singapore but suffered engine trouble en route and finally arrived at Izumi-ohtsu on 18th May 1967

This photograph appears in my book "Bristol Port and Channel Nostalgia" published by Coastal Shipping