You did better than we managed - the ship I took this from was thw Border Reiver, one of the same class but modified to Common Brothers requirements - and our tour was 12 months and 5 days; happy ones however, at least in retrospect.

I sailed on the British Flag as the Radio officer in 1969. I joined in Grangemouth and we then spent the best part of 3 weeks getting to Banda Mashur. The radio station was purely WT and from memory it was a Marconi installation. I discharged 6 months later in Rotterdam for 2 months leave.