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One of the ships which had passed Portishead on 20th August 1963 was South African Marine Corporation's 1954 Greenock built SOUTH AFRICAN SHIPPER, here seen at Durban.
Ex - CLAN ROBERTSON - 59 UMZINTO - 60 ROOIBOK - 61
Later: 1964: S.A.SHIPPER
She finally arrived at Kaohsiung 26.11.75 for scrapping
scanned from a negative in my collection by the late David Shackleton
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General cargo ships built 1950-1959 (Over 3000gt) - 5 photos
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Later shots of her show that the top is grey except for the cowl. https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/2273669
None of the other ex Clan boats had this deep black top, not even her sister - South African Scientist. https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3411414
I've never been wrong in my life but have often been mistaken.
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The funnel has a black top, below it is grey, the next darker band must be blue then, looking at the aft end of the bridge structure one can just see a tiny sliver of white - which means that below that but out of our view would be the orange and then grey of Safmarine colours.
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Photo is from the first three years of Safmarine ownership before the fleet naming went from the 'South African' prefix to 'SA' for political reasons.
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This is in fact a rare and unique shot of this ship with a charterer's funnel.
Side note. . This was one of the last four steamers built for Clan Line. Clan Robertson - this ship - and Clan Ross were built with first class 12 passenger accomodation for the express service from Liverpool direct to Durban - getting there faster than the U-C mailboat. The other two were the semi - refridge Scottish Shire Line pair - Ayrshire and Argyllshire built for the Australian service also with 12 passo accomodation.
I had the good fortune to sail on three of them. This ship as SA Shipper, Clan Ross as Kinnaird Castle, and Argyllshire. Along with the mail boats I sailed on they were the 'best feeders' I sailed in 42 years at sea.
This is South African Shipper with a charterer's funnel colours.
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It isn't Clan Line as it is too high. The vent was totally covered in black as Clan Robertson.
It isn't Safmarine as you would be seeing lots of grey below the cowl.
There are photos on site of her with both funnels for comparison.
VNSM on the other hand had a single red band quite high on the funnels of their ships.
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/47121
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Compare this funnel with shots of VNSM 'xxxxkerke' ships, single red band very high up.
Often , in the 60's , Safmarine would take a ship on charter and if only for a single round trip from Europe to SA they would always put Safmarine funnel colours on the chartered ship. This I would suggest is just the reverse.
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She appears to have been on charter to VNSM/Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschapppij / United Netherlands Navigation Company when the photo was taken.
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