page_title: Victoria Drummond
section_title: Manchester Port
hierarchical_section_title: Victoria Drummond / World War II service / Manchester Port
caption_attribution_description: English: The 7,071 GRT steam turbine ship Manchester Port, built in Scotstoun in 1935 by Blythswood Shipbuilding Co for Manchester Liners. She was scrapped in Bilbao in 1965.
context_page_description: Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE, was the first woman marine engineer in the UK and the first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.
context_section_description: In April 1942 Drummond joined Manchester Liners' 7,071 GRT Manchester Port in Liverpool as Fifth Engineer. The ship was unkempt and filthy, including the galley, the food was ill-served and the Master, Captain Davis, seemed permanently drunk. Nevertheless, Manchester Port was made Commodore Ship for convoy ON 89 to North America. The ship survived the crossing and on 17 May loaded dynamite at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. On 20 May the ship reached Halifax to join an eastbound convoy. Drummond reported Davis for drunkenness and on 21 May he was removed under police escort, replaced by a Captain Middleton. Manchester Port joined convoy HX 191, which left Halifax on 24 May and reached Liverpool on 6 June. The ship discharged her explosive cargo in Manchester and Drummond returned to her sisters in Lambeth.
caption: Manchester Liners' Manchester Port, on which Drummond was Fifth Engineer in 1942
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