The author was 3rd Officer on her from 1955 to late 1956, a 21 month voyage. See her war record below, and the criss crossing of the oceans throughout the conflict. How often might she have been seen through a U-boat periscope?

She was a sister to 3 other vessels, the Lossie, Tay, and Tweedbank, and remarkably they all came through WW2 unscathed.