20-12-2020, 06:42 PM
This was my favourite ship I was on her for 9 very happy months in 1977/8. I had actually planned to make a model of one of the cargo pumps: they were steam reciprocating, pumping bulk tallow from the tanks, through heat exchangers in the engine room and back to the tanks to keep it liquid. There was a nauseating stench of rancid tallow throughout the engine room due to leaking glands on the pumps. I still have the drawings I made of the pumps. I did make other steam engine models from scratch when on watch, in the engine room, taking advantage of the workshop facilities. Something which I still plan to model is a set of working union purchase derricks as they are such an efficient method of loading and discharging cargo but have now probably all gone.
Bob, I guess that you were very familiar with the Oceanspan and other Marconi equipment. I used to spend a bit of time off watch in the radio room chatting with the R.O. and used to borrow his copies of Wireless World which were flown out to the vessel.
Rod
ShipSpotting.com
![[Image: 3199391.jpg]](http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/small/1/9/3/3199391.jpg)
© Malcolm Cranfield
Bob, I guess that you were very familiar with the Oceanspan and other Marconi equipment. I used to spend a bit of time off watch in the radio room chatting with the R.O. and used to borrow his copies of Wireless World which were flown out to the vessel.
Rod
ShipSpotting.com
© Malcolm Cranfield
