Well, that's it - no more photos and thanks for your help.

[Geoffrey Green]

I have posted what few shipping photos I had and it was fun digging them up from my collection of miscellaneous images. Thanks for the help provided and best wishes for the forum.

Geoff

[Astra]

Several interesting photos among them, fx those from Vietnam. Thanks for posting them.

As to your photo of the Liberty ship, IOANNIS K http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=1069061 - according to Norman Hooke's book, Modern Shipping Disasters 1963 - 1987 ( Lloyd's of London Press Ltd 1989 ) - it was due to faulty steering that the Greek steamship IOANNIS K, ran aground off Vung Tau, South Vietnam, on January 3, 1968, sustaining extensive bottom damage. She was abandoned there as a constructive total loss.

Another good photo of IOANNIS K - stranded off the coast of Vietnam http://teyurtseven.org/SHIPHOTOS/WORLD/UNKNOWN/unknowns.html

Regards

[Astra]

Geoff - as to your other photos of CORTLAND fx http://shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo-1069040-Portland - possibly the ship, at this stage, is not yet a wreck.

CORTLAND had arrived from Taiwan with a cargo of cement, but due to a dispute with the cement company in Vietnam, the ship was being detained on the Saigon river - together with two other sister ships.

After some years of waiting for this cement dispute to be solved, all three sister ships were finally towed away for scrapping.

For more information on this and some other photos of CORTLAND and her sister ship BOWLING GREEN waiting on the Saigon river please visit http://www.teyurtseven.org/SHIPHOTOS/GBOWLING/greenbowling.html and http://www.teyurtseven.org/CORTLAND/cortlanddhtmlindex.html

Regards

[Geoffrey Green]

You are no doubt correct - it's supposed wrecking and / or being damaged by the VC was just a wartime urban myth. Nice to get the truth after all of these years.

[Geoffrey Green]

After saying that that is all - I found some slides taken when I was in Saigon in 1972