Alan Pink's Ports of Call

“La Orilla” - Radio callsign GTSS

October 1957 to May 1958

I was Radio Officer on the La Orilla. Along with a complete crew, with the exception of the Captain, I flew from Southend to Hamburg in a chartered Viscount airliner, to join La Orilla there on 8th October 1957.

At Casablanca, Captain Hughes joined us to replace the original Captain who had remained with the ship when we joined it in Hamburg.

Mr Swann joined us as First Officer in Le Havre and our original First Officer went home.

I left La Orilla in Brest and travelled home to London by train and ferry via Paris and Calais.

Arrive Depart Port Cargo loaded

1957

8 Oct - 12 Oct Hamburg in ballast
18 Oct - 19 Oct Casablanca loaded phosphates
23 Oct - 23 Oct Dakar loaded bunkers
5 Nov - 23 Nov Cape Town discharge & dry dock loaded maize
1 Dec (approx) breakdown at sea
8 Dec - 12 Dec Recife to make repairs
19 Dec - 19 Dec Port of Spain loaded bunkers
26 Dec - 31 Dec Tampico discharge, left in ballast

1958

6 Jan - 7Jan Panama Canal
10 Jan -17 Jan Chimbote, Peru Loaded crushed anthracite
21 Jan - 22Jan Panama Canal
6 Feb - 12 Feb Bordeaux discharged & left in ballast
14 Feb - 15 Feb Le Havre loaded cars
1 Mar - 2 Mar Port Everglades part discharge
4 Mar - 5 Mar New Orleans part discharge
6 Mar - 19 Mar Houston loaded bagged rice
24 Mar - 25 Mar Panama Canal
31 Mar - 16 Apr Callao, Peru discharge and left in ballast
17 Apr - 29 Apr Panama Canal
21 May Brest discharge

Alan Pink