Makko & FJ, my late uncle Bob and his son (Rob) were both engineers for Blue Flu.....the former was Ch/eng and the latter 2nd Eng (served in Priam I think).
Now - me being of the grey funnel pursuasion - the significance of 1986 is lost on me.....was this the demise of the company or the meteoric rise of the container ship..rendering conventional cargo ships obsolete? My cousins slant of why Blue Flu went under was that they got into Tankers in the 70's (and away from core business) in the trying times of early containerisation and lost lots of Money in the process.
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