Joe, A very, very big thank you for posting your three Barrow Built Liners videos, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Much superb footage of the ships passing each other at close quarters. Of all the great ships featured, I only got to see the Oriana. She was a wonderful ship with a unique character and I visited her during one of her Southampton dry-dockings whilst I was a student at University of Southampton studying naval architecture. I was fortunate in being able to visit her once more for the day during a Southampton turn-around during 1981. I would have loved to have seen and visited Orsova, but alas, she and all the others had all gone by the time I was old enough to travel to Southampton from London on my own. It amazes me to see so much polished wood in the upperworks, including the bridges, on the older Orient boats. It was wonderful to see these fine ladies at their best and so important for on-going posterity. Thank you once again. Stephen Payne (architect Queen Mary 2)
Oh dear! No baseball caps, flip flops, tattoos, water slides et al, the horror of things to come, these crimes committed aboard Lego boxes, no sheer, very little style, with propellers stuck on the back!
Joe,
A very, very big thank you for posting your three Barrow Built Liners videos, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Much superb footage of the ships passing each other at close quarters.
Of all the great ships featured, I only got to see the Oriana. She was a wonderful ship with a unique character and I visited her during one of her Southampton dry-dockings whilst I was a student at University of Southampton studying naval architecture. I was fortunate in being able to visit her once more for the day during a Southampton turn-around during 1981. I would have loved to have seen and visited Orsova, but alas, she and all the others had all gone by the time I was old enough to travel to Southampton from London on my own. It amazes me to see so much polished wood in the upperworks, including the bridges, on the older Orient boats.
It was wonderful to see these fine ladies at their best and so important for on-going posterity. Thank you once again.
Stephen Payne (architect Queen Mary 2)
Oh dear! No baseball caps, flip flops, tattoos, water slides et al, the horror of things to come, these crimes committed aboard Lego boxes, no sheer, very little style, with propellers stuck on the back!