On www.merchant-navy.net, Ken Burns says "the starboard LP cylinder jammed on a broken junk ring and bent the con-rod. We compounded it south of Dakar then loaded in Capetown. Back in Europe we took it to Blackwater estuary to mothball while Wallsend slipway cast a new cylinder".
Broken up Kaohsiung 8 April 1966
Dates from Voyage Record Cards.
Tonnage:
9,726 gross
Built:
1944
Type:
Cargo ship
Owner:
Clan Line
Official No:
169404
ID
1169404
Above: CLAN URQUHART, thought to be laid up in River Blackwater while waiting for a new cylinder to be cast for her starboard engine. She was in the River 18 September 1964 to 7 December 1964.
Photograph from Fotoship, Penarth
Date: cOctober 1964. Source: Mersea Museum / Ian Clarke Collection
