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This selection of photographs from my collection will be rotated from time to time. Some of them are firm favourites and will remain! The banner photograph above shows the ore carrier OREOSA navigating the Walney Channel approaches to Ramsden Docks, assisted by the BTC tugs, RAMPSIDE and ROA. The stocks of Vickers Ltd, from which many a famous ship has been launched, can be seen to the left. KYRIAKOULA is the ship featured in the Ship-Pics logo - more about her below.
[Built by Vickers] [Selection of Vintage Ships] [Scandinavian Ore Ships] [British Owned Ore Ships] [More Ore Ships] [Ships Laid-up] Please feel free to send any comments to Mike at ships_ns@yahoo.ca. Now for the ships! On this occasion, a few old tramps.
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Name / Owner: KYRIAKOULA LR number: 5519999. (Santa Barbara Cia. de Nav. SA, (J.& E.Katsoulakos), reg: Puerto Limon 1958, later, Panama).
Date photographed: September, 1959, transporting 3,000 tons of iron ore from Setubal, Portugal for local Ironworks. A very frequent caller at the docks, last seen by me December, 1960. A view from the stern here.
Year built / Builder: 1921-10, S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (yard no: 293).
Details: 2,294 gt. Dimensions: lpp: 93.9 m x 13.1 m breadth. Single screw steamship - speed 11.5 knots.
History: Built as the ZELO for the Pelton SS Co., Newcastle. Became the KYRIAKOULA in 1955. Sold again becoming the PITSA of Conisen Shipping S.A., Panama, in 1964. Sold to Greek shipbreakers in 1965, scrapped Perama, April, 1965.
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Name / Owner: VARANGMALM LR number: 5606771. (Sameiet Varangskip, A/S Malmfart & Fearnley and Eger, reg: Kirkenes, Norway).
Date photographed: November, 1959 - transporting 7,125 tons of iron ore from Kirkenes for local Ironworks. A frequent caller at the docks, she was eventually replaced in 1960 with a new-build bearing the same name (motorship, machinery aft, 5,220 GT).
Year built / Builder: 1928-12, Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen (yard no: 551).
Details: 4,268 GT (7,880 DWT); 400 ft X 54 ft; single screw motorship - 12 knots.
History: Built as the FERNMOOR for Fearnley & Eger of Oslo. FERNMOOR (station 52, carrying 3 bombers and crated aircraft) was in Convoy HX 146 in Aug.-1941. She was also in Convoy HX 168 in Jan.-1942. Post War: Sold in 1954 to Sameiet Varangskip, (manager A/S Malmfart) Norway, and renamed VARANGMALM. In 1955 managers became A/S Malmfart and Fearnley & Eger's Befragtningforretning, Oslo. During the night of Jan. 23/24, 1960, she ran aground off Bodo, when on a voyage from Hartlepool to Narvik, and was later refloated. Found not worth repairing and sold to Netherlands breakers. Arrived in the New Waterway in tow on March 4,1960 on way to yard of Utrechtse Ijzerhandel. (Information source: Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939 - 1945).
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Name / Owner: BAXTERGATE ID number: 1180144. (Turnbull, Scott & Co. Ltd. reg: London).
Date photographed: December, 1960 on her very last voyage before Valhalla! Other Turnbull, Scott ships seen by me in Ramsden Docks were REDGATE (7,132 GT, 1945) and WAYNEGATE (7,349 GT, 1944). Another photograph from the stern here.
Year built / Builder: 1944-10, Shipbuilding Corporation, Wear Branch, Southwick, as EMPIRE COWDRAY (yard no: 4)
Details: 7,072 GT, "C"-type tramp, 447.8 ft (oa) X 56.3 ft. Engines: T3cyl, 10 knots.
History: 1948: GRANHILL (Goulandris Bros., London); 1951: BAXTERGATE (Turnbull, Scott & Co. Ltd); 1.12.1960: Arrived Barrow under her own steam with 9,150 tons of iron ore from Bone, N. Africa, prior to demolition at Thos. Ward - about 100 metres from her berth in the photo.
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Name / Owner: WILLIAM M. MEREDITH US O.N. 242897 (United States Department of Commerce. reg: Portland, OR). A 1960's "ghost" ship!
Date photographed: October, 1960, shortly after arrival from Wilmington, DEL, in the tow of the Dutch tugs FRIESLAND and NESTOR for scrap at Thos. Ward. The small vessels in the foreground are the P. M. COOPER (ex ICI coaster, BARIUM, 601 GT, 1918), and the Fleetwood trawler, WYRE CAPTAIN (FD78, 275 GT, 1917). If I remember correctly, the bridge of the ship just visible alongside, inboard of the Meredith, belongs to the ex-fleet oiler, ABBEYDALE.
Year built / Builder: 1944-02, Oregon Ship Building Corporation, Portland, Oregon. (yard no: 630)
Details: 7,180 GT (10,865 DWT); 442 ft (oa) X 57 ft; single screw steamship; speed: 11 knots.
History: EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship, name unchanged since building. One would assume this ship had previously been laid up as a member of the US reserve fleet before ending her days under the torch at Barrow.
Another Liberty ship - in worse condition, if anything - to be broken up at Barrow shortly thereafter was the BENJAMIN CARPENTER (US O.N. 245571; also U.S. Dept Commerce, reg: San Francisco; 7216 GT (10,865 DWT); built 1944-04 by Permanente Metals Corporation (Shipbuilding Division), No.2 Yard, Richmond, Calif; yard no: 2786). She arrived from Wilmington under tow by the Wijsmuller tugs, CYCLOOP (232 GT; 1953 - seen in the photo) and, again, the NESTOR (200 GT; 1959) on November 16, 1960.
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Name / Owner: SABINE US O.N. 239817 (Sabine Transportation Co., Inc, Port Arthur, TE. reg: Baltimore, MD). Another 1960's "ghost" ship.
Date photographed: December, 1960, after being towed by the TURMOIL from Mobile, AL, for scrap at the berths of Thos. Ward. She was loaded with 4,836 tons of scrap for her final voyage. Another photo from the bow here.
Year built / Builder: 1940-07, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny NJ. (yard no: 177)
Details: 7,698 GT (13,080 DWT); Loa: 137.2 m x 20.3 m breadth; single screw steam turbine ship; speed: 12 knots.
History: Built as the ESSO MONTPELIER for the Standard Oil Co of New Jersey, Wilmington, Del. - becoming the SABINE in 1952. She was later sold to Commercial Metals Co., Dallas, who then re-sold her to Thos. W. Ward Ltd.; arrived under tow at Barrow, December 15, 1960, to unload her cargo of scrap metal. She was finally delivered to the breaking wharf February 27, 1961. (I can well remember that she was an environmental hazard while languishing in Ramsden Docks, where the photo was taken. The oil slick on the water can be clearly seen).
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