HI there I'm chilean and my name is Eduardo,it seems we sailed together in the Donamira with Anthony.I boarded the ship January 1,1970 at Valparaiso as a passeger at first with my guitar.Then we went to Tocopilla to load the ship and then it was about 27 days to Gijon, Spain via Panama.
We painted the deck of the ship some of us(I got a free trip for that) and we had a really nice time together.It was an incredible crew and I remember we had a tough swell in the North Atlantic and a storm near Spain.The steersman was called Hassan.I also translated to spanish some of the letters they wrote to their girls in Valparaiso.I could write a book with all I learned and shared with them.

I sailed on this ship for over 3 years as a deck apprentice
First year she was CHARLTON MIRA (1967) and predominately sailed as a collier on the East Coast of Canada loading 15K of coal from Sydney Nova Scotia up the St Lawrence to Montreal, Port Alfred, Quebec and Three Rivers.
It was an absolute nightmare to discharge her double bottom ballast fast enough to keep pace with the loading rate of coal.
When the picture was taken in Immingham she was about to be fitted with very basic second hand derricks on each hatch table to serve the 5 cargo hatches.
She was renamed the DONA MIRA changed flag to Liberian and sailed in ballast from the UK to Chile and coasted there for 2 years working for the Chilean Nitrates company, she carried bulk nitrates to all Chilean ports.
We returned back to Europe for Dry dock in Cadiz where British officers were removed and Greeks took over the ship. The Pakistani crew were retained.
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute onboard this ship, a mess she may have been but the people I sailed with were some of the nicest folk I have ever met let alone sail with.
I understand since she has a catastrophic fire in the mid seventies

Estoy buscando Vessel para chatarra, me puedes mandar detalle del barco y precio por favor. Charlton Mira ,IMO:5069013

Hallo Anthony,
from the photo I read Charlton Mira, not Charlton Maria, IMO 5069013, British flag built 1958 gross tons 9881
Gerolf