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CERINTHUS - IMO 5067493
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Product tanker; 12,174 grt; 18,877 dwt
Owner: Hadley Shipping Co Ltd, London. Manager: Warwick & Esplen Ltd, London. Flag: British
Built 1954 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. Yard no: 1470
Photographed in 1976, awaiting scrapping at the Faslane, Clyde yard of Shipbreaking Industries Ltd.
Propulsion: two Harland & Wolff steam turbines geared to single screw shaft. Total power output: 8,250 shaft horsepower (shp) for a service speed of 14 knots
Photographed in 1976, awaiting scrapping at the Faslane, Clyde yard of Shipbreaking Industries Ltd.
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Two steam turbines geared to a single shaft and a service speed of 14.5 K.
Was employed in 1966 delivering refined (black oil) products around the New Zealand coast for Shell on nine voyages.
Sources:
NZ Marine News 1979 Vol.30 Issue:1.
"The Evening Star", Dunedin, NZ, newspaper 4/5/1966 - an article by Doug Wright, shipping correspondent and photographer.
"Stormy Petrol?" by Michael Whitfield Foster, 1964. (unpublished)
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