Cable Venture

she looks so much like cs alert my uncle was crewman on alert took me aboard her one time in rothsay dock clydebank thaught she was the biggest ship in the world i was only 8 years old at the time   remember my uncle allen kidding me on asking me if i thaught she was bigger than the ringers in eriskay lol ever so slightly the cs alert used to load at cable depot clydebank the road down to it is still called cable depot road  as far as i know after leaving clydebank their run was usually transatlantic to st johns newfoundland i still have aphoto of the cs alert somewhere and cod traces my uncle baught in st johns the alert was built in fairfields anyone who sailed on her in late sixties please get in touch would love to hear from you