Aureol

Aureol

As Marianna VI before Eleusis, 2000

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Marianna VI (1974-2001) Ship type Passenger ship home port Liverpool Shipping company Elder Dempster Line Shipyard Alexander Stephen and Sons , Govan Build number 629 Launch March 28, 1951 takeover October 1951 Commissioning November 3, 1951 Decommissioning October 18, 1974 Whereabouts Broken down in India in 2001

Ship dimensions and crew length 164 m ( Lüa ) width 21 m Draft Max. 7.6 m measurement 14,083 GT   crew 145

Machine system machine Four cylinder Doxford diesel engines Top speed 16 kn (30 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 658

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 5030878

The Aureol was a passenger ship of the British Elder Dempster Line put into service in 1951 . After being taken out of service in October 1974, she was used as a barge under the name Marianna VI until 1989 . The ship then lay in front of Eleusis for more than a decade until it was scrapped in India in 2001 . The Aureol was the last passenger ship in service on the Elder Dempster Line.

history

The Aureol was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Govan and launched on March 28, 1951. The ship was delivered to the Elder Dempster Line in October 1951 and put into service on November 3, 1951 on the route from Liverpool to Lagos .

The ship remained in service on this route for over 20 years. In 1972 the ship was moved to Southampton , but continued to sail on its old route. On October 18, 1974, the Aureol completed her last voyage in the port of Southampton and was then retired because the liner service to Lagos became uneconomical.

The Aureol was sold to the Greek shipowner Giannis Latsis and renamed Marianna VI . From then on, she was used as a residential ship in Saudi Arabia until she was retired in February 1989. The Marianna VI was towed to Eleusis and laid up there. The Marianna VI was, together with the Marianna 9 and the Margarita L, one of a total of three ships in the former fleet of Giannis Latsis that moored in Eleusis.

No new operator was found for any of the three ships. The Marianna VI was sold in April 2001 together with the Marianna 9 for demolition in Alang , India , where both ships were dismantled in the following months. The Margarita L remained in Eleusis for five years until it was also sold to Alang in 2005.

Web links

Commons : Aureol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry about the ship on ssmaritime.com (English)
• Entry to the ship on liverpoolships.org

Footnotes

1. ↑ Peter Knego: MV AUREOL. In: midshipcentury.com. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (English).