Activity 10
Read this description of the voyage of a cargo ship and then write similar descriptions of the voyages of three other ships according to the information below:
On May the tenth, 1949, the S.S. Ludwig left Bremen for Rio de Janiero with a cargo of electrical goods and chemicals. She called at Cherbourg and Vigo, and then sailed straight across the South Atlantic to Brazil. Her voyage lasted seventeen days. She spent a week unloading in the harbor of Rio de Janiero and began return voyage on June 4th.
1.2/8/53 – S.S. Mary Jane – Liverpool – Montreal – whisky and textiles – Dublin – Cork – North Atlantic – Canada – twelve days – four days – August 23rd.
2.29/10/55 – S.S. Boston – Sydney – Lima – meat and wool – Auckland – Fiji – Pacific – Peru – twenty three days – nine days – December 1st.
3.10/3/57 – S.S. Tyne – Durban – Bombay – cereals and tinned food – Mozambique – Mombasa – Indian Ocean – India – twelve days – five days –March 28th.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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