British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.

A Collection of Personal Photographs Kindly Supplied by Peter Raymond.


A very young Peter Raymond, on Chilka in Hull, two days after joining the company in 1956


Chilka crew on a lifeboat drill in the gray green greasy waters of the Royal Albert Dock.


Dilwara, Singapore when she was still trooping, arrival with troops lining the starboard side.


Dilwara, departure with a Scottish military band playing.


Chilka 1956.
Forward half of the engineers mess Seated are Jimmy Dalton, "Ginger" Lyons & 'Buckie" Patterson prior to going ashore, London or the Continent.


Carpentaria, at Port Swettenham, (Now Port Klang) 1957.
Jimmy Hay (5EO) is trying to get Egbert, the ship's cat, to pose for 'Ginger' Lyons (4EO) so he can test out his new Paxette II camera. The pic was taken with PR's new Paxette II camera, bought in Singapore.


Cadet Young with "George" a Sheltie passenger heading for New Zealand, Nov 1956.


Carpentaria at Hobart with Constitution Dock in the foreground.
PR: We usually went to the zinc works at Risdon so Hobart town was quite a treat.


Carpentaria
PR: Portland was a small port on the Southern Ocean west of Bass Strait. It used to have a very long wooden jetty on the end of which ships would tie up with heavy nylon springs in the mooring lines to cope with the surge from ocean swells. This was our only visit to this port about January 1958. The locals, mainly summer visitors from inland, came out to see the ship and seated themselves along the warehouse.


HMAS Melbourne, Carpentaria and Orsova at the Outer Harbour Adelaide about 1958.


Seacunny on duty.


Carpentaria
Looking down from the ship onto the crowds.


Carpentaria alongside at Risdon
PR: where we picked up a large load of zinc ingots in bundles. The wharf is covered with them for about three quarters the length of the ship.


Risdon Zinc Works.


Steel cargo being unloaded from Chilka at Wellington.
PR: There is one bundle of cargo and about twenty people on the wharf. Containers have abolished all that.


Dave Milligan on Carpentaria
PR: Having the corns removed from his foot by the dark gentleman on the right. He used goats horns which had holes drilled through the ends. A lump of beeswax was stuck on the end and a hole made with a skewer. The open end of the horn was applied to the corn with the podiatrist sucking out the air from inside the horn and then sealing the end shut by biting on the beeswax. The horns were left in place for some minutes after which the corn was pulled out of the foot and into the horn!
The two other engineers were Jack Hutcheson 2EO and Alex Mathieson 4EO (in the bright white boilersuit).
Dave says "it demonstrates how much work the panche did on the Carpentaria, just look at the state of my overalls in comparison to the 2nd and 4th".

This series of three pictures was shot about late '57 early '58 with Carpentaria at moorings a bit further up river than usual.
The Howrah Bridge can be seen in the distance.
Though the ship was on stand-by the surge was not too bad, for the ship but the barges, lighters etc in the river were tossed about a bit.







The three following photos came is under the decription of 'Constant Companions' Always with us!