What's a gas riser ?

Stormforce11.You must have been on her with me then.Remember finding Raplh.He had fallen into a gas riser and passed on.He was buried at sea! Dennis

I sailed on the Kayeson in 1973 as a deck cadet, mainly trading Carribean, west Africa and the meditteranean. I remember we had a monkey onboard name of Ralph. Hard work with very little shore leave.

I was on this tanker and was not a happy guy, the captain was a pig to all the crew even the officers. I spent 4 months on her after her bottom refit we sailed from rotterdam to aiden then back to france the on to the gulf, we were to deep to go through the canal and went around africa...we had no mail, no films, in the four months I spent on her..all the crew that joined her in rotterdam even the officers signed off in liverpool...the captain was an arsehole

Fond memories of my time aboard the Kayeson :-)

A very stylish tanker built to a Shell design by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn on Tyne in 1961 for Kaye, Son and Co hence the name.
I remember her well on the Elbe in the 1970s passing VERY close to the ferry I was on. Must find the shot. :lol: