T & J Harrisons
of
Liverpool
Harrison line trips and pictures from 1973 - 1985 of Richard Hunt.
With major contributions from Harrison ship mates. & Family
1860-1865
1865-
Trip 1
All Ships in order that I sailed on
Whilst I was at school, I hadn't a clue of what I wanted to do when I left, I did know that I would like a job which entailed travelling, the chance of promotion and of course a fair wage! After leaving school I worked on a building site for nine months whilst deciding and earned £60 a week. Once I left and joined Harrison's I was on the super wage of £54 a month! How times have changed!!
Unfortunately the company has come to an end as I knew it. In the mean time I have decided to put my trips online along with the pictures I took during those trips! It might bring back a few memories!!
Help needed......
If there are any ex- Harrison Line personnel or their Family out there who have film(Cine) or photos, especially of shipmates, I would love to here from you. Please get in touch. I would create individual collections and have them linked to your name, along with any details you provide, names, ships, dates, route etc.
My email link is the purple envelope at the bottom of this page.
Latest News
Site Updated 03/04/25
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03/04/25 Officers and Crew search now up to May 1982 No 35
01/04/25 Unfortunately due to Family commitments the site for now will be updated on an as and when policy.
17/03/21 Apologies for the slow loading of the Officers Search.
The database for it is just too big for me to have on my site compared to the allowance I get for the package I have!
13/03/25 Added a couple of pics from Ray Oliff, from Facebook.
Officer Search now up to April 1980(No 27)
Crew Search also started.
09/03/25 Apologies for any misspelt names in the Officers Crew lists and any others that may follow, down to doggy typewriters of the day and OCR software mis reading as a result! Please let me know if you find any so they can be corrected!
08/03/25 The officers search is now a sub heading under Crew Lists.
05/03/25 I have been working on an easy News Letter search to find friends and colleagues we sailed with. I have come up with a searchable way called Officer Search where you type in their surname or Rank or Ship, and it will let you know which news letter they are in. It isn't very pretty atm, but is functional and I am working on a better version! I am only up to News Letter No 7 but have managed to reduce the time down to under an hour for each NL, this will reduce as the ships start to be sold off, and the crew lists stopped at the end of 1988(No 58) it seems. Each search will include any other name as part of the one you are looking for, e.g. Hunter will pull up Hunt as well! I hope it will be helpful.
27/02/25 Eventually got around to adding my last trip on the Broompark! For some reason I have always had a mental block about adding it as I never saw it as a Harrison trip!
Only taken 20+ years! never could make my mind up!!
20/01/25 Sir Thomas Pilkington's Obituary sent via Jim Mills
26/09/24 For those of you that use my site to find ship pictures I have adapted a spreadsheet I use for the ships company number.
You might find it useful to know that the last Magician for example was 314 which makes it a little easier to find in the dropdown of the ship category. I have used info from
Captain Graeme Cubbin's book and the project is ongoing, all the gaps will eventually be filled in!
31/08/24 Website News:
After 16 years of developing my website into what it is today with the help of our seafaring friends and family and the totally unexpected support I have recently received from your generous donations, I am delighted to say I am going to continue the site for at least the next 3 years in it's current format whilst looking to improve it where I can.
Thank you all for your support and please check your attics for lost picture treasures to help our archive grow!
Updated 27/8/24
While I was at last years reunion dinner(2023) in Liverpool I was asked if this site cost me any money to run, he was quite surprised when I told him a couple of hundred pounds a year!
He also asked if our community new that, to which I said not many if any. I decided to break down how much it actually did cost, the amount is currently £184 per year, this will rise to £257/year from September '24 providing nothing else goes up, hence my decision to put the info out there which also explains the message below. The full breakdown of my costs are on the
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If you have negatives that need rescuing please give me a shout!
I have installed a search feature as a trial top left, probably wont work on all searches!
Ongoing NEW Project: Looking for FULL Crew Lists to make a collection
for us all to be able to help our memory put names to faces!
Link to example of how it might look
