Iberia (ship)

Iberia

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type Passenger ship home port London Shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Shipyard Harland & Wolff , Belfast Build number 1476 Launch January 21, 1954 takeover September 10, 1954 Commissioning September 28, 1954 Decommissioning April 1972 Whereabouts Scrapped in Taiwan in 1972

Ship dimensions and crew length 219 m ( Lüa ) width 27.5 m Draft Max. 9.4 m measurement 29,614 GRT   crew 711

Machine system machine Geared turbines Machine performance 31,250 kW (42,488 hp) Service speed 22 kn (41 km / h) Top speed 24.9 kn (46 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1,414

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 5157781

The Iberia was a passenger ship put into service in 1954 by the British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , which was built for the liner service to Australia . It remained in service until April 1972 and was then scrapped in Taiwan .

history

The Iberia was built under the construction number 1476 at Harland & Wolff in Belfast and was launched on January 21, 1954. After its delivery to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company on September 10, 1954, the ship began the liner service from Tilbury to Sydney on September 28 .

From June 1955, Iberia offered cruises to the Mediterranean in addition to the regular service to Australia in the summer months . On March 27, 1956, the ship collided with the tanker Stanvec Pretoria operated by Esso during another voyage to Australia off Colombo . Major damage occurred on board the Iberia , and parts of the superstructure warped. At Stanvec Pretoria only slight damage to the bow occurred . The repair work on the Iberia lasted seventeen days.

Iberia was involved in other incidents in the following years . Among other things, she ran aground on February 15, 1959 in the Suez Canal . In October 1961 she had to stay in Auckland for five days for repairs after a complete failure of the machinery . On August 12, 1962, the ship ran off Suez on a sandbank, which damaged one of the propellers. More machine damage and breakdowns followed, and the Iberia chimney caught fire during a crossing in December 1969 .

In February 1972, the eighteen-year-old Iberia was announced that it would be decommissioned. She finished her last crossing on April 19, 1972 in Southampton , after which the ship was laid up . On June 28, 1972, the Iberia left Southampton with a course for Kaohsiung in Taiwan, where it arrived on September 5, 1972 at the demolition yard of Mitsui & Company. The scrapping of the ship began in October.

The sister ship of the Iberia was the Arcadia , which was commissioned in 1954 , which remained in service until 1979 and was then also scrapped in Kaohsiung.

Web links

• the ship on ssmaritime.com (English)
• the ship on pandosnco.co.uk (English)