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MAY 19, 2004

Updated: NOVEMBER, 2007

SHIPS AND SHIPPING AT BARROW-IN-FURNESS, CUMBRIA - 1959 TO 1964

A SELECTION OF VINTAGE SHIPS

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.

Other pages in this section:
[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: AGUILA  ID number: 1160318. (Cia de Nav. Aguila, reg: Costa Rica 1957, later, Panama).

Date photographed: Regular calls 1957 - 1960, transporting iron ore from N. African ports for Barrow, Millom and Askham Ironworks. Other pre-WWII ships bearing the same funnel colours, including CARMEN, LOCARNO, LUGANO, NAVIDAD, SAN SALVADOR (later EUGENIO - see below) and SORENGO (a photo requested - PLEASE!) were also regulars in this trade.

Year built / Builder: 1928-04, Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow (yard no: 809)

Details: 3,491 GT; 350 ft x 49 ft; single screw steamer - speed: 10 knots

History: Thanks to Ron Mapplebeck for providing the following information: Built as the CLUNEPARK for J. J. Denholm Ltd, Glasgow. Sold and renamed ANGUSMUIR for Dundee, Perth & London in 1948. Sold 1954 to Swiss flag of convenience owners (S. Tuillier), becoming the AGUILA. Broken up at Split, arriving October 6, 1963.

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Name / Owner: EUGENIO  LR number: 5109473. (Compania de Nav. San Rocco, Panama).

Date photographed: February, 1961. Arrived with 5,895 tons of iron ore from Savona. A regular caller, first seen by me at Barrow in 1957 as the SAN SALVADOR reg: Puerto Limon, Costa Rica.

Year built / Builder: 1930-05, J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (yard no: 570).

Details: 3,970 GT (6,770 DWT); 379 ft X 51 ft; single screw steamer, 9 knots. Converted from coal to oil burning in 1962.

History: Built as RUNSWICK for Rowland & Marwood's S.S.Co Ltd. (Headlam & Son), Whitby. Sold in 1955 as the SAN SALVADOR (with the same funnel markings as in the photo); later becoming the EUGENIO. Broken up Bilbao, Spain in 1971.

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Name / Owner: PATRICK M  LR number: 5542182. (Cia de Nav. Patricio Ltda., reg: Panama when photographed).

Date photographed: July, 1959, transporting a cargo of iron ore from Setubal, Portugal for local Ironworks.

Year built / Builder: 1921-08, Deutsche Werft A.G., Hamburg (yard no: 4).

Details: 1,384 gt. Dimensions: lpp: 71.3 m x 11.2 m breadth.

History: She appears to be bearing the funnel colours of the Mooringwell SS Co. Ltd., Cardiff, and follows their nomenclature. Incidentally, the above mentioned SORENGO (2,515 GT; built 1910 by Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton) was previously Mooringwell's BRUCE M from 1947 until 1956.

Ron Mapplebeck has provided the following details of the PATRICK M (Mooringwell Shipping from 1954-61): ex-RHEA-54, S. Manessis; ex-BUZI-51, Colonial de Nav; ex-RUFIDJI-43, Deutsche Ost-Africa Linie; ex-ANDALUSIA-25, HAPAG. Renamed MANDY in 1961; NICK S. in 1962; OLGA V. in 1963 and VLASSIOS in 1963. Fate: wrecked outside Iraklion - November 23, 1964.

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Name / Owner: CAPETAN MANOLIS  LR number: 5527181. (Magiora Cia. Naviera, Costa Rica. (L. Nomicos), reg: Monrovia when photographed).

Date photographed: November, 1960, transporting a cargo of 2,500 tons of iron ore from Lisbon, Portugal for local Ironworks.

Year built / Builder: 1934-05, S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (yard no: 330)

Details: 1,803 GT; 257 ( 265 o.a) ft X 39.5 ft.

History: Thanks once again to that mine of information, Ron of TEESSHIPS, for providing details. It transpires that the CAPETAN MANOLIS started life as the Wm. Cory & Son's collier, CORFIRTH, until sold for the princely sum of 15,000 (sterling) to Magiora Cia. in 1958, whereupon she became the ship of the name shown in the accompanying photo. She was employed in the transport of petrol in cans in the Mediterranean from July, 1943. Mined in February 1944 when entering Ajaccio, and beached. Refloated in 1945 and repaired at Leghorn, resuming service for Cory in April, 1946. (from WSS history of the Cory fleet). She was later named PATRICK M in 1961 for Mooringwell Shipping - see the previous ship on this page. She was again sold in 1966 to Komi Shipping S.A. (Kalamotusis), Liberia, and renamed VASSOS . Arrived at Savona, Italy, on May 28, 1967, to be broken up.

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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: ORIONE  ID number: 2244588. (Fratelli Grimaldi. reg: Naples, Italy).

Date photographed: April, 1959, upon arrival from Birkenhead for long lay-up.

Year built / Builder: 1943-11, New England Shipbuilding Corporation, West Yard, South Portland, Maine. (yard no: 2192)

Details: 7,185 GT (10,865 DWT); 442 ft (oa) X 57 ft.

History: Built as the EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship, MARY WILKINS FREEMAN, (from Liberty Ships by Sawyer & Mitchell). Her history is as follows: 1943: US War Shipping Administration (Boland & Cornelius, Buffalo); 1947: ORIONE, Raggruppamento Armatore Fratelli Grimaldi, Naples. 1961: Sicula Oceanica SPA, Naples. 1966: Scrapped La Spezia February 1966.

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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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Name / Owner: BRITAMER   ID number: 5613898 (D/S A/S Baltimore, Halle & Petersen. reg: Oslo ).

Date photographed: June, 1959. A fine, older tanker appearing in pristine condition.

Year built / Builder: 1939-03, Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Whiteinch, Glasgow. (yard no: 670)

Details: 9,986 GT (15,235 DWT); 515 ft X 67 ft; motorship; 13 knots service speed.

History: Sold to German breakers; arrived Bremen on July 18, 1963, to be scrapped.

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