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2 unusual facts about Blue Funnel Line


HMS Glengyle

She was transferred to the Blue Funnel Line in October 1970 and was renamed Deucalion, but by June 1971 she had been broken up at Kaohsiung.

Holt's Wharf

It was set up in 1910 and jointly owned by British Swire Group and Blue Funnel Line.


Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange

As Cherry Drummond, she also wrote The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond - Marine Engineer, a biography of an intrepid aunt, Victoria Drummond, a goddaughter of Queen Victoria who was an engineer with the Blue Funnel Line for 40 years from 1922.


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Outward Bound

Fuller had been seconded from the Blue Funnel Line following wartime experience during the Battle of the Atlantic of surviving two successive torpedo attacks and commanding an open lifeboat in the Atlantic ocean for thirty-five days without losing a single member of the crew.