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Welcome to the Benjidog website.

I hope you will enjoy the following nautical resources:

· The Allen Collection Over five thousand nautical photographs collected by a father and son over a period of 60 years.

· Court Line The most comprehensive history of Court Line ships on the net . including factual information, career highlights, service history (including details of service and casualties in  WW1 and WW2).

· Recollections  Personal accounts by members of the Merchant Navy and others, especially from the WW2 era, with numerous photographs.

· Miscellaneous Ships Histories of ships with an interesting story - particularly ones referred to in the Recollections section.

· Govan to Nuremburg - The History of Athenia (II) The story of a passenger ship sunk on the first day of WW2 and the aftermath through to the Nuremburg War Crime trials

Work in Progress

· Crossings of the River Thames below Tower Bridge
(This was due to be published in Q1/2009 but the content is far more complex than envisaged)

· A detailed account of a cruise on Moldavia in 1936 with photos and other memorabilia

· Sailing barges

· Disposal of WW1 and WW2 chemical weapons in the sea

 

Brian Watson

20 December 2009

Last Update:

 

New section on Athenia (II)

 

20 December 2009

 

To contact us:

 

E-mail: brian@benjidog.co.uk