Ellerman Quartet class
.jpg) The City of Exeter
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The Ellerman Quartet class (also known as The Ellerman Quartet and City-of-Port-Elizabeth class) was a series of four station wagons that were commissioned by the British shipping company Ellerman Lines at Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle upon Tyne and Commissioned in 1953. The ships of the class remained in service for Ellerman Lines until 1971 and were then sold to Greece .
history
The four combined passenger and cargo ships of the Ellerman Quartet class were ordered by the British Ellerman Lines and built at Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle upon Tyne. The type ship City of Port Elizabeth was launched on March 12, 1952 and was delivered to the shipping company on December 10, 1952, before it was put into service on January 10, 1953 in the liner service from London to Cape Town . The three sister ships, which are identical apart from a few deviations, followed in the next few months. As the last ship of the class, the City of Durban was put into service in May 1954 .
The four units of the Ellerman Quartet class could carry up to 107 first class passengers. Their passenger facilities included a dining room, several lounges, bars, a library, a writing room and a cafe. Thanks to the built-in Doxford diesel engines, a top speed of 18.8 knots could be achieved. The service speed was about 16.5 knots.
After eighteen years in service from London to Cape Town, the four ships were retired in 1971 and sold to the Greek Karageorgis Lines , which wanted to convert two units into ferries and the other two into cruise ships. In 1972, the City of Exeter and the City of York began ferry service in the Mediterranean under the new names Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Sky . The City of Port Elizabeth and the City of Durban received new names with Mediterranean Island and Mediterranean Dolphin , but were never converted for the cruise service as planned and scrapped in Kaohsiung in 1980 and 1974 after several years of layover .
The remaining ships remained in service for Karageorgis for more than twenty years. The Mediterranean Sea was retired in 1995 and after another renaming to Alice in 1998 it was scrapped in Aliağa . The Mediterranean Sky was retired in 1996 and spent her final years in Eleusis , where she capsized after flooding in January 2003. Her wreck lies to this day in the Bay of Eleusis.
units
| The combined ships of the Ellerman Quartet class | |||||||
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| Surname | Launch | delivery | Shipyard / construction number | measurement | drive | Whereabouts | |
| City of Port Elizabeth | March 12, 1952 | December 10, 1952 | Vickers-Armstrongs , Newcastle upon Tyne / 120 | 13,363 GRT | Doxford diesel engines | Sold in 1971, scrapped in Kaohsiung in 1980 | |
| City of Exeter | July 7, 1952 | April 29, 1953 | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne / 121 | 13,343 GRT | Doxford diesel engines | Sold in 1971, scrapped in Aliağa in 1998 | |
| City of York | March 30, 1953 | October 26, 1953 | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne / 122 | 13,345 GRT | Doxford diesel engines | Sold in 1971, 2003. Eleusis capsized | |
| City of Durban | May 28, 1953 | May 1954 | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne / 123 | 13,345 GRT | Doxford diesel engines | Scrapped in Kaohsiung in 1974 | |
Web links
- the ships of the class on ssmaritime.com (English)
- The Deck Plan City of Exeter on ssmaritime.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Micke Asklander: M / S CITY OF EXETER. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ^ Reuben Goossens: The Ellerman Quartet. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .