THE BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY The "Clan Stewart's" voyage 15 ended during our summer holidays, when she arrived back at Liverpool after a round voyage to South and South-East African ports. As may be seen from the dates given below, this was a very speedy voyage, though a few days were lost at Lourengo Marques (partly through rain) and at Beira waiting for a berth. The voyage was without incident except for the unusual duty of having to stop at sea to dump 175 tons of toxic residue : this was done off Morocco, far out to sea, as a requirement is a minimum depth of 2,500 fathoms. Another example of the trends of modern industry is the presence in the homeward cargo of such items as 50 tons of radio-active ore (which raises many difficulties of stowage), petralite ore (for making cathode ray tubes), and silliminite ore. Indeed, the cargo was as mixed as usual, including 1,000 tons of rayon pulp, besides large quantities of asbestos, copper, canned goods, calcium carbide, hides, vermiculite, fruit juice, Mica waste, vanadium and wolfram—nearly 7,000 tons in all. Capt. Graham writes interestingly of developments at Lourenco Marques, a rapidly developing city : "a very attractive city with many fine buildings and homes. A new church is being built, which is of a most interesting design. It is circular, and the roof consists of what I can best describe as 14 triangles. The homes are very colourful and very modern in design. Another fine building is the Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1944. The interior decoration is very simple, and round the walls are panels of bronze depicting the Stations of the Cross. There is also a very fine museum called the "Alvaro de Castro Museum" after a one time governor of Mozambique. Most of the animals are shown in tableau form in their true to life state." Dates and ports of call for voyage 15 are : Port
... Birkenhead Dakar (for oil) ... Durban ... Lourengo Marques Beira ... ... Lourengo Marques ... Durban East London ... Port Elizabeth ... ... Cape Town Dakar (for oil) Liverpool
Arrival
26th May 7th June 14th June 19th June 8th July 12th July 14th July 17th July 18th July 30th July 7th August
Departure
20th May 27th May 13th June 18th June 6th July 11th July 14th July 16th July 17th July 20th July 30th July
Other ports of discharge were Barrow and Glasgow, and the ship was back at Liverpool on 25th August ready to load for voyage 16. This voyage, a circumnavigation of Africa, was completed on 29th November, and some details will be given in the next "Peterite". 30
