Vascoingles:
Wheel Nut:
Yeah, The Coutances was only about 10 years old then 
only been on 2 worse than the Coutance
1 was that old bucket that used to go from Bari to Padras in the eighties and that old rust bucket from Mukran to Klaipeda
I used that thing that Frag Line chartered from Brindisi, someone said it was a redundant cattle carrier that worked the Manchester Ship Canal 
Wheel Nut:
Vascoingles:
Wheel Nut:
Yeah, The Coutances was only about 10 years old then 
only been on 2 worse than the Coutance
1 was that old bucket that used to go from Bari to Padras in the eighties and that old rust bucket from Mukran to Klaipeda
I used that thing that Frag Line chartered from Brindisi, someone said it was a redundant cattle carrier that worked the Manchester Ship Canal 
could well have been
and the Mukran bucket I was convinced it was converted from an old Wehrmacht hospital ship
For years I shipped as a “South African” spent lots of trips
alone…then one day a friendly follower who never showered
followed me on at Zeebrugge and decided to be Afrikaans too.
A Fenite from Cambridge called “Big Will” 