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AMERICAN PILOT
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Photographer:Paul Strathdee [ View profile ]
Title:American Pilot
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built 1940-1949 (over 3000gt)
Added:Jul 9, 2008
Views:1,991
Image Resolution:1,559 x 989
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United States Lines' ex- wartime standard ship taken in Glasgow in August 1967.
She was completed in 1945 as ONWARD later becoming PIONEER GULF before gaining her AMERICAN prefix.
These ships were very much a part of the scene in British ports from the 1950s to the late 1960s when the container revolution began to bite.
AMERICAN PILOT went to Kaohsiung breakers in 1972.
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A late sixties caller to Felixstowe, I never had a camera then of course!
regards
Derek
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Built 1945 by North Carolina SB Co, Wilmington (Yard no 224) as a C2-S-AJ1 “Victory” ship, she was powered by two General Electric steam turbines providing a total of 6,600 shp for a speed of 16 knots (a fast ship for those days).
Happy memories of the Clyde in this photo for me, too. Sitting by or riding on the Renfrew-Yoker ferry for a couple of hours when the tide was up, there would be as many ships passing as it would take several weeks – or even months – to see there nowadays.
Photography was a bit of a 'rich man's hobby' back in the 1950s; certainly out the of reach for a schoolboy, as I was then. By the time I got a decent camera (around the time this photo was taken), I was living 400 miles away and the Clyde, as a major port, was starting to go downhill - fast!
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