The "Liberty ship" KOSTIS is seen passing Portishead, outbound from Avonmouth on the evening of 8th June 1967 for Dublin after discharging a part cargo of grain from South America. Unfortunately, one year later, on 3rd June 1968, early into a voyage from Sfax to China with a cargo of phosphate rock, KOSTIS suffered a fire, was abandoned, grounded and declared a “constructive total loss”.

Delivered by Tood-Houston in 1944 as ANNA.H BRANCH and operated by the Norwegian owners Lorentzen from 1947 to 1955, she had traded as KOSTIS for the “London Greek” Laimos Brothers since 1955.

This photograph and caption can be seen in my book Bristol Port and Channel Nostalgia published by Coastal Shipping.