4th January 2022 marks exactly 46 years since, with the help of Palm Line Agencies, I hired a boat to photograph as many as possible of the c300 ships anchored off Lagos, Nigeria, mainly loaded with cargoes of bagged cement. In eight hours I was able to photograph around one third of the ships.

Here is AGELOS GABRIEL,the former BRISTOL CITY, built by J.Readhead at South Shields in 1959 and purchased by Christos Lemos, Sons & Co Ltd in 1970. She had arrived off the port from the Black Sea on 14th September 1975 and eventually discharged at Port Harcourt, sailing from there on 13th August 1976 for Rotterdam.

AGELOS GABRIEL was laid up at Chalkis from 17th June 1977 until sent to Sveti Kajo near Split for breaking, arriving there on 3rd April 1980.