Thanks Bjørn adn Trygve.
It will be interesting to follow the restoration effort.

Davidships: Seeing pictures/videoes: I do not think that her engines, (if existing??) is serviceable. She seems to use tugs when moving.

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Does she still have serviceable engines?
Utkilen re-engined her in 1963 with a pair of Wichmann 9ACAT diesels.

Yes, big difference - but a definite link.

S P Austin merged with William Pickersgill to form Austin & Pickersgill.

Later Austin & Pickersgill set up a joint consultancy venture with Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon, called A & P-Appledore.

Unlike the shipyards in Sunderland and Appledore, which were nationalised in 1977, A&P-A was bought by its management and remained independent, later becoming known as A&P Group.

Thanks barbary_coaster. Is there a big difference between "SP Austin" and "A & p Group"?

Builder:- SP Austin, Sunderland

I thought she'd been scrapped. Very well done to the preservationists and I wish them well.

Hamen" is a single decker, with superstructure midhsip, and engine in the stern. Vessel length is 252 feet and gross tonnage of 1364 tons. "Hamen" was built as "Pompey Power" in Sunderland, England in 1949 as a "collier". The Collier-ships were specially built to carry coal from the north to the south of England. "Hamen" has been in Norwegian ownership from 1960 to 1962 as d / s "Tandik" and m / s "Hamen" from 1962 In 1986 the ship was sold to a Swedish shipping company, and was for a period laid up in Iddefjorden, near the Norwegian town Halden (east of the entrance of the Oslofjord.)

M / S "Hamen" has very high conservation value, of criteria such as representativeness, rarity, age, sentimental value and symbolic value.

M / S "Hamen" is very representative of the Norwegian and European shipping in the period between the wars until 1960 to 1970's. "Hamen" sailed north European, Baltic Sea and North Sea shipping from 1949 until 1986, as coal, ore, stone, timber and general cargo. Log books says that some tours also went all the way to Spain.

"Hamen" is now about 65 years old, in ships technological context, a very advanced age, and thus also "Hamen" document shipbuilding technology from 1900 to 1950 vessel is recognizable for thousands of sailors, their families and the shipping industry, and therefore has great sentimental value and symbolic value.

Of the several thousand ships like "Hamen", only a few left in the world, which "Hamen" is the only Norwegian. The others are already museum ship in Europe and the USA, while seafaring nation Norway have not even one such ship in its fleet protected.

“Hamen” has been docked in Hirtshals/Denmark and then “tugged” up to Hurum, near Tofte, in the “mid” Oslofjord where I puctured her August 29th 2014. The Enthusiasts preserving her, has their web on: “Hamen.no” (Sorry for some of the not so good English ways of writing)