Manchester City ship

[manclad]

It's a wonderful world when you're holding a dollar!

I think the lyrics are -
"It's a wonderful world when you're rolling in dollars "
But I stand to be corrected.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Built 1898
Dismantled 1929

Was painted red, black and white

Red n black stripes?

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

I always thought it was port, starboard, Forrid and aft?
Not sure how you spell forrid but that's how it is pernounced

Reminds me of this classic

 

[jimharri]

I think the lyrics are -
"It's a wonderful world when you're rolling in dollars "
But I stand to be corrected.

Damn; you're right. All these years, I've been singing (loose definition of the term) along with the wrong lyrics.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Built 1898
Dismantled 1929

You sure about those years?

The service to Canada ended in 1979, and by the early 1980s only five "Manchester" ships remained – the 30,000 ton container vessel Manchester Challenge and four 1,600–4,000 ton vessels: Manchester Crown, Manchester Trader, Manchester Faith and Manchester City.

 

[Manx Blue]

Controvery rules!

 

[Manx Blue]

...just so people know, there was a Manchester City train also :)


Unrelated.

 

[manclad]

Damn; you're right. All these years, I've been singing (loose definition of the term) along with the wrong lyrics.

I've done it with countless songs down the years .
It's only with lyric sites on the web ,that I can check and see how many I actually got wrong.
Nobody is perfect after all.

 

[urban genie]

You sure about those years?

The service to Canada ended in 1979, and by the early 1980s only five "Manchester" ships remained – the 30,000 ton container vessel Manchester Challenge and four 1,600–4,000 ton vessels: Manchester Crown, Manchester Trader, Manchester Faith and Manchester City.

 

[WEMBLEY76]

The SS City of Manchester was an iron-hulled single screw liner built 1851 by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, Scotland and the second such ship owned by the Inman Line (officially the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company). It was an improved version of their first ship City of Glasgow which had been launched a year earlier.[2]

Steerage passengers were carried beginning in 1852. The City of Manchester was chartered to the French government during the Crimean War, and resumed Inman voyages in 1856. She departed London for Calcutta 24 August 1857 as a transport as a result of the Indian Mutiny. By the next year, New York replaced Philadelphia as the American destination. After 20 years of Inman service, the City of Manchester was sold and converted to sail.[3][1] She ship was wrecked near Akyab, Burma in November 1876.[4][5]