Priam class
| Super P or Priam class | |
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| Ship data | |
| Ship type : | Cargo motor ship |
| Builders: | Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders, High Walker, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki and John Brown, Clydebank |
| Technical specifications | |
| Measurement : | 13,600 GRT |
| Load capacity : | about 11,200 t |
| Length over all: | 171.75 m |
| Length between perpendiculars: | 158.80 m |
| Width over everything: | 23.62 m |
| Draft : | 9.14 m |
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| Drive: | 1 x B&W diesel engine |
| Machine power: | 18,900 hp |
| Top speed: | 21 kn |
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The ship class , known as the Priam class or Super P's , is a series of eight motor ships operated by the British shipping companies Blue Funnel Line and Glen Line . The express freighter series represents their last draft of a conventional general cargo ship before the merger of the parent company Ocean Steamship Company with Elder Dempster & Company to form Ocean Transport & Trading Co. (OT&T) and the subsequent conversion of the shipping companies to container ships .
history
Five units of the series of this ship type were built at the Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders shipyard in High Walker / Newcastle upon Tyne , but the two ships Pembrokeshire and Glenalmond were built due to delivery problems at the Japanese shipyard Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , the Glenfinlas at the shipyard John Brown & Company in Clydebank . Due to months of delays at the British shipyards, which were involved in labor disputes, the two ships ordered in Japan were among the first to be delivered. This, in turn, led to the fact that the six Priam- class ships became the last ships of the Blue Funnel Line ever ordered in Great Britain. Another piece of the mosaic in the then progressive decline of the British shipbuilding industry. The lead ship of the class was the Priam, launched on January 5, 1966 . It was delivered seven and a half months later than contractually agreed in November 1966. The Glenalmond became the first ship of the class to be completed in September 1966, although Mitsubishi began building it later. The end of the class formed the end of 1967 handed over Radnorshire . Four Super-P's each came into motion for the Blue Funnel Line and the Glen Line.
Another tradition of the shipping company came to an end with the Super-P's , when the former Glenalmond was brought under the British flag as the Patroclus as the last Dutch-flagged Blue Funnel ship.
The Ocean Steamship Company hoped to achieve an improvement in the profitability of the liner service to the Far East and to catch up with HAPAG , which also has a service, through the concept of the fast freighters, which, with their high speed of 21 knots, enabled a considerable reduction in travel times to East Asia and by the end of 1964 had already put the first of seven similarly designed express freighters of the Westfalia class into service.
Even at the start of construction of the Priam class, the change in long-distance liner traffic began to become clear with the introduction of the container. This led to the fact that the first container ships began serving East Asia in the early 1970s. The shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, for example, put its first container ships into service for the East Asian service in 1972/1973.
Although attempts were made to convert the Super-P's to semi-container ships, they were soon no longer competitive. The first four units were sold en bloc to the Hong Kong shipowner CYTung in 1978. The rest of the ships followed until 1983. Some of the second-hand units were also converted to semi-container ships, but six years later all but one ship had been scrapped again. Only the former Pembrokeshire achieved a relatively long service life of 28 years as Phrontis .
The ships
- The type ship Priam was launched on January 5, 1966 and was handed over in November 1966. In 1978 it was sold to CYTung, who renamed it Oriental Champion . The following year, the ship was lengthened to 195.40 m and converted into a container ship. On October 18, 1985, the Oriental Champion was badly damaged 60 nautical miles north of Bahrain in a rocket attack and on February 13, 1986 reached a demolition shipyard in Kaohsiung .
- The Glenalmond with hull number 1613 was Mitsubishi's first Super-P launch on February 22nd, 1966 . She went into service for the Glen Line in September 1966. From 1973 she joined the shipping company China Mutual as a patrol and in 1974 she joined the Blue Funnel subsidiary NSMO . In 1978 it came back to the Blue Funnel Line and was sold to Rajab & Co in Jeddah in 1982 , which continued to operate it as Rajab 1 , before being renamed Sahar again in 1984 . It caught fire outside Port Rashid . From November 26, 1984, they were broken in Gadani Beach .
- The Peisander was launched on March 23, 1966 as hull number 185 and was only completed a full year later, in March 1967. In 1978 it was sold to CYTung, who renamed it Oriental Exporter . From 1981 it ran as Main Express and from 1984 it was again called Oriental Exporter . Her demolition in Kaohsiung began on September 10, 1986.
- The Pembrokeshire with the construction number 1614 was launched on July 5, 1966 at Mitsubishi and was completed there in March 1967 for the Glen Line. In 1972 it joined the Blue Funnel Line and was now called Phrontis . After it was sold to Gulf Shipping Lines in 1982, it was named Gulf Osprey . The following year, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines acquired the ship and named it Iran Etjehad . Under her next name, Dolphin VIII , she reached Gadani Beach on April 29, 1995 for demolition.
- The Prometheus with hull number 186, it was launched on July 18, 1966 and put into service in June 1967, was sold to CYTung in 1978 and renamed Oriental Merchant . In 1980 it was briefly named Oriental Merchant No 1 , but was renamed Oriental Merchant again in the same year . From March 21, 1986, it was also scrapped in Kaohsiung.
- The only Super P from the traditional shipyard John Brown & Company was the Glenfinlas, launched on August 3, 1966 with hull number 731 . In December 1966 it was delivered to the Glen Line and in 1973 it was passed on to the Blue Funnel Line as Phemius . In 1978, the China Navigation Company bought the ship and named Kweichow , 1983 was passed organization to the Saudi venture and Saudi Kawther baptized. The ship was scrapped in China the following year.
- On January 10, 1967, the Protesilaus was launched under construction number 187. It was delivered in July 1967. In 1978 it was sold to CY Tung, who renamed it Oriental Importer . In the wake of the Iran-Iraq conflict, it was on June 1, 1985 to the journey from Dammam to Kuwait in position 28 ° 10 ' N , 49 ° 35' O hit by two missiles, and three sailors were killed. She left the area the following month and reached Kaohsiung on September 18 for scrapping.
- The Radnorshire with hull number 188 was launched on March 13, 1967 and handed over to the Glen Line in 1967. From 1973 she came to the shipping company China Mutual as Perseus . In 1978 it was sold to the China Navigation Company and renamed Kwangsi . In 1981 it was named Asia Dragon . The following year, the Saudi Venture Organization bought the ship and named it the Saudi ZamZam . Another two years later, the ship was abandoned in China.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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literature
- Harms, H .: Express freighter "Priam" of the Blue Funnel Line . In: Ship and Harbor . Vol. 19, No. 3 , March 1967, p. 184-185 .