Two old British tankers await demolition by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at their Faslane scrap yard in Gare Loch, Scotland in August, 1976.
On the outside is the 12,174 grt/18,877 dwt CERINTHUS (IMO 5067493), of Hadley Shipping Co, London. Built 1954 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, she was powered by two Harland & Wolff steam turbines.
The other one is 12,078 grt/16,600 dwt EL LOBO (IMO 510008), built 1959 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend for Burmah Oil Trading Co Ltd, and managed by Bowring SS Co Ltd. She was powered by a six-cylinder Doxford 67LBD6 of 6,250bhp at 115rpm.
Behind the tankers is the now-much-extended Royal Navy base, with one of the ‘ROVER’ class RFA’s visible behind CERINTHUS.