mast and derricks
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

mast and derricks
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

accommodation ladder
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

m.v. Falaba
image © courtesy Billy McGinty Collection

m.v. Dunkwa
image © courtesy Ricky Richardson Collection

faces and places - the Apapa arriving at Takoradi
© Mike Ingham

ready for rain at Burutu
m.v. Swedru
© Mike Ingham

hatch covers going on
m.v. Swedru
© Peter Jones

winch maintenance
m.v. Kandaw
© Peter Jones

deck cargo
© Peter Jones

deck cargo
© Mike Cooper

engineer's cabin
m.v. Fian
© Ian Walker

crew change to Rotterdam
on board British United Dakota G-AKNB
Liverpool Airport Terminal Building
with Aer Lingus Viscount EI-AOE
© Mike Ingham

crew change to Rotterdam
on board British United Dakota G-AKNB
Liverpool from the air (Liver Building centre)
© Mike Ingham

crew change to Rotterdam
the Liver Building really is there
© Mike Ingham

crew change to Rotterdam
on board British United Dakota G-AKNB
eastbound
© Mike Ingham

crew change to Rotterdam
on board British United Dakota G-AKNB
over the North Sea, with the English coast
© Mike Ingham

crew change at Antwerp
the Starways Dakota is either G-AMPO, G-AMPY, or G-AMSN
© Paul Hughes

crew change at Rotterdam
the British United Dakota is G-ALPN
© Mike Ingham

crew arriving back at Speke
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

K-boat signal......
m.v. Kandaw
© Peter Jones

palm tree at the masthead
m.v. Eboe - Christmas 1959
© Paul Hughes

iced up in Canada
m.v. Salaga
© Peter Wright-Osment

ice at Halifax
© Mike Cooper

view from the Empire State Building
© Steve Singleton

the Brooklyn Bridge, New York
© Steve Singleton

local football at Port Harcourt
m.v. Onitsha
© Paul Hughes

too close for comfort 1
m.v. Onitsha
© Paul Hughes

too close for comfort 2
a sequence showing the effect of wind and tide
on a ship under way, seen from a ship at anchor
m.v. Kentung
© Mike Ingham

too close for comfort 3
m.v. Perang
© Paul Hughes

too close for comfort 4
m.v. Dunkwa seen from the m.v. Forcados
© 3rd Mate Forcados courtesy Jim Culkin collection

adjacent vegetation
m.v. Kentung
© Mike Ingham

at Hamburg, loading a new ferry for Lagos
m.v. Onitsha
© Paul Hughes

ferry on the foredeck
m.v. Onitsha
© Paul Hughes

ferry safely arrived
m.v. Onitsha
© Paul Hughes

pilot boarding
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

Craven A - ship's cat
m.v. Eboe
© Paul Hughes

radio room
m.v. Owerri
© Steve Singleton

radio room
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

radio room
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

radio room
m.v. Freetown
© David Sawyer

Elder Dempster funnel
m.v. Eboe
© Mike Ingham

NNSL charter
m.v. Kentung
© Mike Ingham

m.v. Swedru (Maradi)
Guinea Gulf Line
© Mike Ingham

m.v. Dunkwa engine (Doxford)
© Elder Dempster Lines
courtesy Ricky Richardson

s.s. Calgary
© Michael Kelly

s.s. Calgary
© Michael Kelly

s.s. Cargill
copyright © image

raid on the Ropner m.v. Daleby
m.v. Obuasi
© John Woodend

one of the first oil rigs in the Delta region
© Michael Kelly

smoke room
m.v. Falaba
© Mike Ingham

the Fala-bar
m.v. Falaba
© Mike Ingham

engine room
m.v. Falaba
© Mike Ingham

Seven Steps ancient
© Ian Walker

Seven Steps modern
© Ian Walker

Fiat 850 Coupé at Abidjan
© Mike Ingham

Kotoka Airport, Accra
© image courtesy J Lomas Collection

Kotoka Airport, Accra
© J Lomas

Kotoka Airport, Accra
© J Lomas

base of the international signpost
Kotoka Airport, Accra
(State Express 555 cigarettes)
© J Lomas

unusual visitor to Kotoka Airport
Royal Canadian Air Force CC-106 Yukon
© J Lomas

British United Airways Viscount 831 G-APNE
probably at Takoradi airport
image © courtesy Burnham Collection

Ghana Railways train
probably at Takoradi
image © courtesy Burnham Collection

Akosombo Dam (Volta River)
image © courtesy Burnham Collection

bell presented to
the Sailors’ Families’ Society, Hull
by the crew of the r.m.m.v. Aureol
image © Sailors’ Families’ Society

Fourah Bay Reunion 2015
Liner Hotel, Liverpool
© Ian Walker

shipping line funnels
how many can you recognize?
click for a larger version
© Mike Ingham

not quite where you imagined it might be
(but in a port town)
© Mike Ingham

overnight stay
image © Mike Ingham

and the bill
image © Mike Ingham

room service
image © Mike Ingham

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