CHRIS West's article on British locos exported to Cuba (June issue) was an excellent piece of research, and I am sure many readers shared my surprise at some of the revelations.
The caption to the picture of the Leyland Olympic brought back an early childhood memory of the story of the buses bound for Cuba that ended up in the Thames. They suffered little damage and were later cleaned up and sold abroad (presumably not to Cuba, though).
A contributor to my father's quarterly magazine, European Railways (1949- 1982), was a fine railway photographer called Akira Minegishi, who arranged for my father and I to look round a Japanese ship in King George V Dock that had been involved in a collision.
The vessel was NYK Lines' brand-new Yamashiro Maru, which at about 1am on October 27, 1964 collided with outbound East German freighter Magdeburg, carrying the buses it had loaded at Dagenham.