The Old Port
(images from the 60's)
(Part 2)
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1. Approaching the Princes Landing Stage on board an Isle of Man
Steam Packet Company Vessel, 1968.
2. A second view of the Princes Landing Stage, from a Mersey ferry, the "Manx Maid" and an unknown British Warship, are pictured alongside with tugs on station at the North end, also visible are the three Clarence Dock Power Station Chimneys, pictured in 1966.
Blue Star Line vessel "Australia Star" pictured in Canada Graving Dock in the summer of 1966, This was a new design of vessel, no longer dependant on heavy lift cranes within the ports of call, this type of vessel had individual deck cranes as well as a heavy lift Stulken derrick amidships.
Built in 1965, 10,500 Gross Tons, Length 526 feet, Beam 70 feet, Service speed 20 knots, single screw diesel engine.
Huskisson Dock in the sixties two vessels from the Cunard Steamship Co Fleet,
on North 1 is the freighter "Samaria" and on the south side is
the passenger liner "Carinthia" both regularly crossing the
Atlantic between Liverpool and United States/Canada.
Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd., freighter "Alaunia" berthed at Huskisson Dock, Built 1960, 7,004 Gross Tons, Length 490 feet, Beam 63 feet, Service speed 17.5 knots, Single screw steam Turbine engine.
This 1966 view of Brocklebank Dock has two of the Passenger vessels from the Elder Dempster Fleet, alongside the quay are sister vessels "Accra" and Apapa" along with the Aureol they ran a passenger/freight service between the U.K. and West Africa, both vessels were built in the late 1940's, length 471 feet, beam 66 feet, service speed of 16 knots powered by twin screw diesel engines.
The Liverpool passenger scene in the sixties would not be complete without
the two "big white boats" as they were affectionately known, "Empress
of Canada" and "Empress of England" pictured on
North 1 Gladstone Dock.
The two sister vessels sailed between Liverpool/Greenock and Quebec in winter months and Montreal in summer as well as Cruises, with a service speed of 21 knots powered by twin screw steam turbine engines they were the largest vessels to dock at the Princes Landing Stage before moving to Gladstone Dock for cargo working in that period.
Another
famous name in Liverpool Shipping was T & J Brocklebank Limited, famous for
the cargo vessels trading between the U.K. and India/Pakistan as well as the
east coast of U.S.A. and Gulf ports.
Pictured on West Gladstone Dock in the late 60's is "Mawana" Built in 1958, 8,744 gross tons Length 497 feet, Beam 63 feet, service speed 16.5 knots powered by single screw steam turbine engines.
Gladstone Dock in the sixties, alongside the S.W.1 Berth is a Blue Funnel Vessel, This berth was known as the "China" berth with the majority of Alfred Holt vessels docking there.
The loading of cargo for The Far East was completed at Birkenhead, below is one of the "T" class vessel "Myrmidon" Built in 1945, 7,706 Gross Tons, Length 455 feet, Beam 62 feet, powered by steam turbines giving a service speed of 15.5 knots, pictured at the East Float's Cathcart Street Quay, named after the goods station adjacent to the berth.
In the background is another Blue Funnel vessel alongside at Vittoria Dock, the forward end of the vessel to the right of the picture belongs to one of the older Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger ferries.