KOCHI: As the state is slowly coming to terms with the capsizing of a Liberian-flagged container vessel MSC ELSA 3, retired ...

He was the chief engineer on a merchant navy ship, who left his college-student daughter and wife back. It was supposed to be a routine trip. On July 22, 2014, while on their way from Ghana to ...

My Grandfather, Wilfred William Halliday, joined the Merchant Navy in 1912 (Elders and Fyffes) as a Junior Officer. He rose through the ranks and became Chief Engineer in approximately 1927.

I joined the Merchant Navy in January 1939 when I was ... where the shell severed electrical cables resulting in the Chief Engineer being electrocuted. I think we were on board the Lancabee ...

He said: “I am the third generation of my family to serve in the Merchant Navy. "My maternal grandfather, an Engineer Officer, was fortunate to survive when his oil tanker was torpedoed during ...