Lying at Station Pier in Melbourne in the late sixties was an old British cargo vessel. I recognised its profile straight away - Hogarth Line - with a small superstructure denoting the company's parsimonious approach to seafarers. They were even smaller than the frugal Bank Line mini-superstructures that also sported a yellow and black funnel. "It will be a Baron ship," I told a colleague authoritatively, which all the Hungry Hogarth vessels were named, but as we approached the ship, it had a Greek flag and now had the name 'Evie G Chimples'. I was horrified. Who would call a ship a dreadful name like that? Yet that old vessel, the ex-'Baron Jedburgh', had that name for ten years.
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