Athelduchess (ship, 1929)
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The Athelduchess was a molasses tanker built in 1929 , which broke into two parts when stranded in 1943, was given a new forecastle and name in 1947 , and was scrapped in 1971 - after being converted to a bulk carrier and not without being stranded a second time shortly before.
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 12 February 1929 on the "Glen-yard" - shipyard of William Hamilton & Co. in Port Glasgow with the hull number 406 from the stack . It was completed in April 1929 and shipped to United Molasses Co. , founded in 1926 , which traded in molasses and molasses products worldwide . The ship was 144.78 m long and 19.29 m wide, had a draft of 8.20 m and a side height of 10.67 m , and was measured with 8940 GRT and 5229 NRT . The propulsion system consisted of two single-action six-cylinder four-stroke B & W - marine diesel engines by John G. Kincaid & Co. in Greenock with an output of 2,880 hp (2,840 bhp ) and two screws .
fate
Like the great majority of tankers in the United Molasses Co. had the Athelduchess during the Great Depression in the early 1930s for a long time placed be until the Melassehandel flourish once again and the ships of the company again between the Caribbean and the UK, to a lesser extent also between Java and Great Britain operated.
After the outbreak of World War II, the ship was from the Admiralty to the service in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary requisitioned and used as oil tankers. Already in September 1939 she ran with her first convoy , the convoy SL2, from Freetown ( Sierra Leone ) to Liverpool . As a result, she drove partly in convoys, partly alone in the North and South Atlantic , in the Mediterranean , as well as in the Indian Ocean , Persian Gulf and Red Sea .
In January 1940 the United Molasses Co. brought all of its ships to its subsidiary Athel Line Ltd., which was founded for this purpose. in Liverpool one.
On the night of August 20-21, 1943, the Athelduchess ran out of Milford Haven ( Wales ) in a convoy destined for New York . She drove in ballast and during the formation of the convoy in wind force 8 from the southwest at the Smalls Lighthouse was pressed onto the rocks of the "Smalls" in St. George's Canal , about 30 nautical miles west of Milford Haven, and broke in two. While the fore part drifted and finally sank, the stern part remained buoyant and was picked up the following morning at position 51 ° 43 ' N , 5 ° 42' W by the rescue ship Ranger and the tugs Abeille IV and Abeille 21 and then by the two of them Tugs hauled and beached onto Dale Roads on the north side of Milford Haven Waterways . The entire crew of 62 men was saved.
Until 1947 the stern was in Dale Bay ; a ship's officer, a machinist and a steward were on board and let the engines run regularly. Then the insurers who owned the wreck sold it to Yngvar Hvistendahl from Tønsberg ( Norway ), who had a new bow part added to the ship in the Devonport Naval Dockyard and the central nave partially converted and after completion in December 1947 under the new name Milford for his affiliate Milford put into service. The Milford was 149.96 m ( Lüa ) or 144.78 m ( LzdL ) long and 19.29 m wide, had a draft of 8.64 m and a side height of 10.67 m , was measured and had 8971 GRT and 5902 NRT a carrying capacity of 13,774 dwt .
As a result, the ownership of the ship changed practically every two years. In 1954, Hvistendahl sold the ship for £ 75,000 to the Société Commerciale Antoine Vloeberghs in Antwerp , which renamed it Jean-Marie (their second ship of the same name) and used it as a stationary oil storage facility in Antwerp. It was sold again in 1956, this time to Compania Naviera Mara Ltda. in Liberia , which renamed the ship Mano and had it converted into a bulk carrier with four holds in 1957 . It was now 149.96 m long and 19.29 m wide, had a draft of 9.57 m, was measured with 9150 GRT and 5987 NRT and had a deadweight of 13,410 tdw. At the same time it received new machinery, two single-acting 12-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines with a total of 4200 bhp from Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day in Stockport .
Motorlines Ltd. from Nassau (Bahamas) bought the ship in 1959 and named it Bahama Count . In 1962 it was sold to A / S Asplund (Manager: Rønneberg & Galtung) in Moss (Norway) and named Ronga . In 1964 it was sold to the Compania de Naviera Victoria Neptuno SA, registered in Liberia , a subsidiary of the Teh-Hu Steamship Company (Hong Kong) Ltd., and was renamed Billy . And in 1966 it went to Compania Naviera Pearl SA in Liberia, which also belongs to the Teh-Hu SS Co., without another name change.
On August 17, 1971, the ship was thrown by Typhoon Rose on the coast of Lantao Island in Hong Kong and so badly damaged that it was declared a total write-off. It was then sold for demolition, made buoyant and to Kaohsiung ( Taiwan towed), where it arrived on November 8, 1971, was canceled.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.umgroup.com/about_heritage
- ↑ http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sl2/index.html
- ↑ For trips in 1939 and 1940, see Historical RFA: Requisitioned Auxiliary - Athelduchess
- ^ Ranger, at Historical RFA
- ↑ http://www.historicalrfa.org/requisitioned-auxiliaries/160-requisitioned-auxiliaries-a/1519-requisitioned-auxiliary-atheldutchess Historical RFA: Requisitioned Auxiliary - Athelduchess
- ^ Athelduchess, at www.wrecksite.eu
- ↑ Rederi Yngvar Hvistendahl, Tønsberg, at www.sjohistorie.no
- ^ 1948 MT Milford, at www.lardex.net
- ^ M / S Ronga, at Sjøhistorie
- ^ 1948 MT Milford, at www.lardex.net
- ^ The Teh-Hu Steamship Company (Hong Kong) Ltd. was founded in December 1964.
- ^ Clyde Built Ships