... Ship company wins higher safety award BRITAIN’S oldest shipping company has gained a prestigious international quality standard. Stephenson Clarke Shipping, based in Newcastle, have been awarded accreditation to ISO 9002 International Quality Management ...

... Comfort in the dark days of war SHIP SHAPE.. The Rev. Eric Newman aboard the South Shields Mission’s launch, ‘SAM’ named after his father. IT WAS a heartstopping moment for the folks of Shields whenever the man rode into their street on his bicycie ...

... examples of ships lost at sea, the tenor of Capt Edward’s volume ‘S.O.S. Men Against The Sea’ has a striking relevance to today. Edwards himself quotes casualty figures published by Lloyd’s Register which show that in 1991 alone, 258 ships went down with ...

... instance, men went missing who had simply jumped ship. But probably far more significant was the shabby way in which many merchant seamen were treated - the fact that once a man had been torpedoed and his ship lost, his pay was stopped, for example. And time ...

... seaman aboard the cruiser, HMS Hermione which escorted merchant convoys from Gibraltar to Malta. The casualties were enormous, with 11 out of 12 merchant ships being lost on one occasion. Eventually the Hermione was sunk by a U - boat with the loss of more ...

... reader the other day that it was an old Readhead’s-built ship, the Tynebank, that he saw broken in half in the Suez Canal during the Second World War. He’d seen her launched years before and the ship, with its two parts sticking above the water, made a sad ...

... separate divisions. The ship and crew management division handles crew manning for every size of vessel, also dealing with salary disbursements and arrangements of reliefs. Owners are kept informed of conditions on board their ships, with continuity of qualified ...

... number of casualties that commercial shipping is in crisis. Fifteen years of cost-cutting - especially on quality and quantity of crewing - is starting to take its toll. Looking to the future - with almost inevitable rises in fuel prices - shipping seems ...

... tons. The submarines began to turn the screw. nearly two million tons of shipping in the first quarter of the following year. With America now in the war, there were more merchant ships and more supplies. The Admiraity had adopted the convoy system; the Germans ...

... were others caught-up in it of course, not least among them the Australians who suffered their own casualties. Moreover a number of British flagged ships and seamen found themselves running oil, aviation fuel etc to the American forces up the Mekong. They ...

... Faroes. see bere, ~vessels Flotia. faround In the days before D-Day she was working the southwestern approaches, for American ships coming in for the invasion, and was off the beachheads the night before the landings actually took place, which afforded her ...

... Brookwood, the Kingswood’s sister ship. Working as a cabin boy he recalled how apart from running into a cyclone, the Brookwood had an uneventful passage back to England. The voyage lasted two months and when the ship docked at Swansea, Mr Kane re-engaged ...