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OCTOBER 13, 2004

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PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON MY TRAVELS

The first three photos were taken on a flying visit to Falmouth in the early 1980s. Since posting them most of the ships depicted have been identified through the combined efforts of Charles Loughlin and Mike Ridgard with additional info on the ST DENYS from Ron Mapplebeck. There is also an update on the MY MARALA.

Further travels pages:

[Travels' Photos] [Cruising from Florida to Panama] [Panama Canal Tugs] [Panama Canal Transit]
[Pacific Coast of US] [Pre-1960s Ships Seen on Cruise] [Pre-1960s Ships Seen on Cruise]
[Vancouver - May 2007] [Merseyside - Historic Ships] [Holyhead & Mersey - Summer 2007]
[Shipping in Hull - 1960s]

Please feel free to send any comments, information or additional photos concerning the featured ships to Mike at ships_ns@yahoo.ca

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Name / Owner: Some interesting ships in port.

Comments: It transpires that I took this and the next two photos in 1984! The reefer to the left at Queen's Wharf is Salen Rederierna's  WINTER WAVE moored alongside the fleet oiler Orangeleaf or Brambleleaf. WINTER WAVE was built in 1979 by Oresundsvarvet and was sold in 1985 to another Swedish company as the ZENIT WAVE. Since then she has been through several ownerships last being sold in 2000 to DelMonte as the MALAGA CARRIER. She is 11,701 gt (15,100 dwt); 169.2 m x 25.7 m; a motorship with a service speed of 22 knots.

To the right of WINTER WAVE are the near sister-ships SMARA (bt. 1971; 4,876 gt; ex CAYMEN-76, ex GREENLAND-75.) and SIJILMASSA (bt. 1972; 6,682 gt; ex KUNGSHAMN-76, ex LAPLAND-75.). Both were owned at the time by the Union Maritime-Scandinave (UNIMAR), Casablanca. Thanks to Charles Loughlin for these details.

I knew that I knew the identity of the passenger ship to the right! She is, of course, the Union Steam Ship Company's 9,387 gt, turbo-electric RANGATIRA from Swan Hunter Shipbuilder's Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1971. A synopsis of her history can be found at nzmaritime

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Name / Owner: A group of ships laid up in King Harry Reach, River Fal.

Comments: My thanks to Charles Loughlin for identifying the ships and providing their details. The tanker on the right is the BRUSSELS (LR no: 6807797; built 1968 by Royal Schelde at Flushing, Holland, as TEXACO BRUSSELS; 14,948 gt). At the time of lay-up she was owned by the Deepsea Shipping Corp, Piraeus, and was sold in 1985 to Tambur S.A., Panama, as ABU AHMAD. Broken up at Alang, arriving September 27, 1996.

The two similar reefers sporting Salen colours are the JULIA (extreme left) with sister-ship ARIETTA alongside. Both were built in 1969 by At. & Ch. de Dunkerque & Bordeaux France-Gironde, Dunkerque. The former (4,410 gt; ex JUNIPER-84, ex MARSOUIN-80) was owned by Armadora Compania Frigo Linea, Monrovia, and the latter (4,413 gt; ex CAYENNE-84, ex BELOUGA-80) by Armadora Compania Navi Fruita S.A., also Monrovia. The next ship (right) bearing the same colours is likely to be the AL SALAMA (bt. 1976, 8,043 gt ex LOCH MAREE-81) owned by Salarab Ltd of Sharjah, UAE. Immediately behind the BRUSSELS is the GOLDEN DOLPHIN (bt. 1968 by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Linthouse; 16,158 gt; ex MATRA-83, ex PORT CAROLINE-81). She was owned by Dolphin Crown Shipping Corp., Pireaus, at the time and was later sold to Chinese breakers, sailing from the R. Fal on 17th October, 1984. for demolition at Shanghai.

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Name / Owner: ST. DENYS

Comments: Identified as the former Falmouth Towage Company's ST. DENYS, a name she acquired in 1959. She became a museum in 1981 but was moved from Falmouth to Douarnenez in 1992 for restoration in the "Musee de Bateau" at that port.

Year built / Builder: 1929, W. Beardmore & Co, Glasgow as the NORTHGATE SCOT

Details: 174 gt;

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Name / Owner: W. J. Reynolds tugs at Devonport

Comments: Mike Ridgard spotted that the tugs belong to W. J. Reynolds Ltd. and not The Admiralty. Checking on the company fleet list for the period, it is likely that they are from right to left TREVOL (136 gt; built 1917), CARBEILA (110 gt; built 1929), TACTFUL (112 gt; built 1909). The smaller tug to the left remains unknown but judging from the length of the name could be the GALLANT (76 gt; built 1884). Thanks Mike for clearing that one up. Can anyone identify the two aircraft carriers?

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Name / Owner: CAROLA, owned by Mark Varvill, West Sussex, at the time the photo was taken in the late 1980s.

Comments: Photographed at a River Beaulieu, Hampshire, wharf. Another view from the stern can be found here. Mike Ridgard tells me that she was originally owned by C. W. & J. Scott and is believed to be the world's oldest surviving steam yacht in original operational condition.

Year built / Builder:1898, Scott & Co., Bowling.

Details: 40 gt; 70 ft X 13 ft; compound steam engine by Ross & Duncan Ltd., Motherwell.

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Name / Owner: MARALA, Melitas Marine, reg: Panama, available for charter in the Mediterranean

Comments: My thanks to Mike Ridgard for identification. His photo taken in Venice in May, 1997, can be viewed here. The MARALA has her own home page: Melitas Marine.

Year built / Builder: 1931, Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, UK.

Details: 663 gt; 183 ft x 26 ft; room for 14 guests in 8 cabins: 18 crew; 2 x 750 hp MAN diesels; 13 knots

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Name / Owner: ESSO CHELSEA   ID number: 1187494. (Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd., reg: London).

Comments: Photographed in Plymouth Sound, April, 1964, taken in the early morning mist when on board the Plymouth Marine Biological Station's RV SARSIA. Flicking through the July, 1999, issue of Ships Monthly magazine recently, I came across a photo of the ESSO FULHAM accompanying an article referring to the "harrowing" experiences of pilots in manoeuvering "Dingbat" tankers in The Solent. Anyway, this article reminded me that I have a photo of one of this breed of ultra slow, shallow draft, coastal tankers, built for Great Lake's service, or possibly for Venezuela. Here it is! ex-AMACURO from launch to 1956 for the Creole Petroleum Corp., Panama. Broken up Bruges, arriving for disposal June 30, 1969.

Year built / Builder: 1945-05, Shipbuilding Corp Ltd,, Sparrows Point Shipyard, Maryland (from Mike Ridgard) - yard no: 4441

Details: 4,352 gt; 366 ft X 60 ft; coastal tanker. Propulsion machinery: steam reciprocating engine driving a single screw for a service speed of 7.5 knots.

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Name / Owner: ESSO BRIXHAM  ID number: 17048. (Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd., reg: London).

Comments: Photographed in Plymouth Sound, April, 1964. Also seen by me in Liverpool and frequently in Barrow. 1980: renamed BRIXHAM, Copella Finance and Trading Co. S.A., Panama. Broken up at Middlesbrough May, 1980.

Year built / Builder: 1957, Philip and Sons, Dartmouth, (source - Mike Ridgard) - yard no: 1291).

Details: 758 gt; 194 ft X 34 ft; coastal tanker. Propulsion machinery: motorship, single screw, service speed of 10 knots.

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Name / Owner: BORDER LASS  LR number: 5048409 (Lowland Tanker Co. Ltd., reg: Newcastle?).

Comments: Photographed in Plymouth Sound, April, 1964. A typical 1950s, British built tanker. She served Lowland until 1970 when sold and renamed MIKRASAITIS. Sold again in 1974, becoming briefly the JUANITA H before arriving Split August 28, 1974 for breaking up.

Year built / Builder: 1954-04, William Doxford, Pallion, Sunderland (yard no: 800)

Details: 11,344 gt (16,030 dwt); 547 ft X 70 ft; ocean going tanker. Propulsion machinery: single screw motorship with a service speed of 13.75 knots.

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Name / Owner: KIERO (The Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protection Association, reg: Hull).

Comments: The "star" of this photo is the ex TID 44, acquired by the above named company in 1949 as the KIERO for ship handling duties at Hull fish docks. She sank in Portsmouth Harbour while assisting an LST in December, 1944 and was refloated and repaired in the following March. She served at Hull until scrapped in Newhaven in 1964. Also in this shot are the trawlers DINAS (FD55, 440 gt, built 1956 by Cochrane at Selby for Dinas Steam Trawling Co. Ltd. Broken up Hull June, 1976) and the KINGSTON ONYX (H140, 794 gt, built 1950 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley for Kingston Steam Trawling Co. Ltd. Broken up Gillingham in May, 1975).

Year built / Builder: Built locally in 1943 by R. Dunston Ltd., Thorne and Hessle.

Details: 54 gt; 65 (74 o.a.) ft X 17 ft; built to a standard WWII design designated "tug, inshore and dock" (TID). Propulsion machinery: steam reciprocating engine (220 ihp) driving a single screw.

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Name / Owner: ARCTIC INVADER (Boyd Line Ltd., reg: Hull).

Comments: Another of the HSTMI&P TID-type tugs, the DAGGER (54 gt, by the same builder as KIERO in 1944 as TID 79) is seen here assisting the ARCTIC INVADER-51, (H360: ID. no: 5502240) inbound from northern fishing grounds in April, 1964. This was during the hey-day of the British fishing fleet, before the "troubles" with Iceland and the resulting Cod Wars. The bows of Charleson-Smith Trawler's  STELLA ANTARES-55 (H123, ID no: 1183439; 661 gt, built 1950-06 by Cook Welton & Gemmell as the ALAMEIN for Hull Merchant's Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd., Hull ) can be seen to the left. TID 79 became J. H. Piggott & Son's HILLMAN in 1946, capsizing and sinking while towing a trawler into Grimsby Fish Docks during October, 1954. She was refloated, repaired and sold shortly thereafter. At an unknown date, post April 1964, she was sold to M.N.S. Fishing Ltd., Newhaven, after which there was no further trace. ARCTIC INVADER was broken up at Antwerp in August, 1966 and STELLA ANTARES on the Tyne in September, 1968.

Year built / Builder: 1936-11, Cook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, U.K. (yard no: 617) as the ST. KENAN for T. Hamling & Co. Ltd., Hull.

Details: 565 gt. Lpp: 52.5 m x 8.9 m beam. Propulsion machinery: steam reciprocating engine driving a single screw.

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