A moment from June 24th 1962 caught while the veteran was being manoeuvred off her birth place at Wallsend. Her upper works appear to have received attention from the painting gangs while her hull awaits its turn. Perhaps she was about to be dry docked for painting to be completed.
Delivered in 1933 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson to the Port Line she served her owners until her sale to Formosan ship breakers Nam Feng Steel Enterprises Co. in 1965 where she arrived on 15th November.
As has been well documented she survived two Malta convoys during WW II. In the summer of 1942 she was one of a fourteen ship fast convoy taking urgent supplies to the island, escorted by two battleships, four aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers. Only five of the merchantmen survived enemy attacks to reach the island, Port Chalmers being the only one without casualties or damage. During this voyage a 21" torpedo became entangled in her starboard paravane, once it was cut away the ship received no more than a good shaking when the torpedo was exploded.
