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(Source: With Grateful Thanks to Terry Renner of Nanaimo, B.C., Canada)
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The following photographs were taken by Terry Renner between 1965 and 1969 whilst serving his navigation officer apprenticeship in the Merchant Navy with R.S. Dalgliesh Ltd., sailing on the Warkworth, Silksworth, and held the position of 3rd Mate on the Ravensworth. He is a Canadian citizen and returned to Canada in 1969.
Watergate Steam Ship Company; R.S. Dalgliesh Ltd. of Liverpool was founded in 1906 by Robert Stanley Dalgliesh when he purchased an eleven year old tramp steamer and renamed her S.S. Kenilworth.
The Company sadly went into liquidation in 1979.
Taken onboard MV Warkworth
Taken onboard MV Warkworth
Last voyage of the Queen Elizabeth I, arriving in New York.
Leonardi Da Vinci, arriving in New York.
MV Warkworth unloading grain in Birkenhead.
MV Warkworth going up the Tyne to Jarrow Dry Docks.
Iron ore being loaded onto MV Ravensworth in Narvik, Norway.
MV Silksworth coming up on the stern of MV Warkworth
Looking over the bow of MV Warkworth, to MV Silksworth, in Churchill.
Loss of cargo off Oregon.
Loss of port gangway after being hit by a freak wave in the North Atlantic.
Looking over MV Silksworth in Sargaso Sea, with engine down for maintenance.
Sun coming up over New Orleans.
An accident just off Rotterdam, unknown ship.
Battening down MV Warkworth for going to sea.
Hold full of grain on MV Silksworth.
Sea water freezing on anchor of MV Warkworth, Hudson Straits.