Places we visited…..
BAHIA BLANCA
( Puerto Enginerio White)
The port in the distance
Another port frequented on some Bank Line voyages – usually to load grain, was Enginerio White, the quirky named port for the big city of Bahia Blanca, a short ride away. On a visit on the Eastbank, loading went on no more than 2 hours a day! (A few rail waggons would appear mid morning and tip in the grain, and that was it for the day). This gave us a month in port to exhaust our funds and enjoy the delights of the bars in the city.
The port with grain silo in the foreground
Loaded a full cargo of wheat at Bahia Blanca on the M V Cloverbank for Dublin and Belfast in the late 1950’s.
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