Manchester City ship

[northendenton]

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

You go forard to the bow and you go aft to the stern,port is left with the red light and strbrd is right with the green light,happy sailing lol

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

You go forard to the bow and you go aft to the stern,port is left with the red light and strbrd is right with the green light,happy sailing lol

I only know this because in Scouts in the 70's we played a game called Ships (i think?)
We all stood in the middle and the leader would shout one direction and we all had to leggit to which ever end or side it was. Last one there was out etc.....
It was port, starboard, forard or aft....

Always stuck in my head that

 

[BigBluey]

Served on her Sister ship HMS Glasgow

Served on HMS Sheffield and HMS Birmingham

 

[northendenton]

I only know this because in Scouts in the 70's we played a game called Ships (i think?)
We all stood in the middle and the leader would shout one direction and we all had to leggit to which ever end or side it was. Last one there was out etc.....
It was port, starboard, forard or aft....

Always stuck in my head that

Bit like we had with a thing called simon says.anyway cheers i am off to feed my parrot now Jim Hawkins melad lol

 

[Gary James]

I'm sure @Gary James can provide a little background to this but here is the Manchester City ship parked up at Salford docks
The name of the ship is at the right handside of the vessel
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Can’t access my notes at the moment but from memory there was a Manchester Liners ship specifically named after Manchester City that was named shortly after the 1937 League title.

I notice some have talked of the train… there were 2 named after MCFC. The 1st had its name changed to Tottenham Hotspur as there was an event the Spurs train was needed for, so the 1st Manchester City train lasted only a short time.

 

[ysmsa]

Manchester Citizen (1)	1912​	1917 torpedoed and sunk in Atlantic; loss of 1 life.	4,251​
Manchester Citizen (2)	1925​	1943 torpedoed and sunk off West Africa; loss of 15 lives.	5,328​
Manchester City (1)	1898​	from 1908 chartered to Houston Line, 1929 scrapped.	7,698​
Manchester City (2)	1937​	1939-1945 requisitioned as minelayer, 1964 scrapped Faslane.	5,600​
Manchester City (3)	1964​	1971 sold to South Korea renamed Korean Winner.	8,734​
Manchester City (4)	1978​	ex- City of Lisbon, 1985 chartered from J. Luhrs, Hamburg renamed Manchester City, 1986 off charter, renamed Polaris.

 

[Gary James]

Manchester Citizen (1)	1912​	1917 torpedoed and sunk in Atlantic; loss of 1 life.	4,251​
Manchester Citizen (2)	1925​	1943 torpedoed and sunk off West Africa; loss of 15 lives.	5,328​
Manchester City (1)	1898​	from 1908 chartered to Houston Line, 1929 scrapped.	7,698​
Manchester City (2)	1937​	1939-1945 requisitioned as minelayer, 1964 scrapped Faslane.	5,600​
Manchester City (3)	1964​	1971 sold to South Korea renamed Korean Winner.	8,734​
Manchester City (4)	1978​	ex- City of Lisbon, 1985 chartered from J. Luhrs, Hamburg renamed Manchester City, 1986 off charter, renamed Polaris.

There you go… the 1937 was specifically named after City because of the title success.

 

[Blue Floyd]

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


Unrelated.

And a united one

The Dying Scotsman

 

[Northerndave]

Where were you when we were ship?

Comment of the day right there, nice one :)

 

[JRockBlues]

HMS Trafford for comparison