By: William Gray6th Jun 2022 9:49AMJust to add to the comments concerning the INCHON and the PUSAN loading Roa Coal for Japan, there was in fact three ships of this class involved the third one being the DAISEI, although she only made the one call here, arriving on the 16th of May 1961 from Suva via Auckland, The DAISEI was manned by British Officers and Hong Kong Chinese crew, The PUSAN and the INCHON each made five calls here between 1960-1961, because of their draft they could not fully load here and had to call at other ports to top off with either logs or scrap metal. They were known as the C I- M-AVI Class, of which 239 were built in the USA in various Shipyards,mainly between 1944-45 They still hold the record for the longest ships to work the Port of Greymouth at 338ft 6in, with a gross tonnage of 3,805. both the INCHON and the PUSAN were owned by the South Korean Shipping Corp of which had at that time a large fleet of this class. Because they were fitted with tween decks they were not easy to load, i can remember looking down in to one of the holds and they used a bulldozer to push the coal in to the corners of the hold, and they had rigged a hose on to the exhaust to clear the fumes from the hold. And just to add further comment, we had a visit from another ship of this class in November 1953 the UNION POWER, she had arrived from Napier to load scrap metal for Japan, and sailed for Gisborne to toad more scrap metal, she was owned by China Union Lines Taiwan, who also at the time owned a large fleet of this class. Some of the C I,s ended up in Alaska as floating factories for the the salmon industry.