Hugh M Macleod

Sailor

Period Tanker Job Details Action
1955 to 1956 HELIX (2) apprentice engineer
1956 PLAGIOLA apprentice engineer
1956 VITRINA 5th engineer
1956 NEVERITA (1) apprentice engineer

Anecdotes

Tanker Anecdote Post date Action
HELIX (2)

The ship was trading mainly between Curacao and Lake Maracaibo.

08/04/2009 - 03:08
NEVERITA (1)

The vessel had been converted to carry Lub Oil and the tank heating coils were welded stainless steel a welcome change from my experience on the Helix.

08/04/2009 - 03:41
PLAGIOLA

Trading from Curacao to many ports on the East Coast of U.S.A. from Miami to Maine delivering Asphalt was a piece-of-cake.

08/04/2009 - 04:16
VITRINA

A 6 month voyage from Rotterdam to a buoyed pipeline in The Gulf, via The Cape on one boiler at 6 knots, and a similar return to Fawley, with the only sight of land being t

08/04/2009 - 04:37