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ORE REGENT - IMO 5264405

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Photographer:
Bob Scott [ View profile ]
Title:
Ore Regent
Location:
Terneuzen, Netherlands
Photo Category:
Ore Carriers
Added:
Mar 15, 2016
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1,366 x 768

Description:

15,655 grt; 45,379 dwt.
Operator: Universe Tankships Inc, Monrovia, a subsidiary of National Bulk Carriers Inc (D K Ludwig), New York.
Built: 1956 by National Bulk Carriers Inc, Kure, Japan. Yard no: 49.
This former Japanese Navy yard was bought by National Bulk Carriers. It subsequently became the Kure yard of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI).
Propulsion: two Westinghouse steam turbines of 17,600 shp (total). Speed: 15 knots.
1969-converted to bulk carrier of 30,316 grt/48,306 dwt.
1974-sold to Sea Navigation Inc, Monrovia, renamed SEA NAVIGATOR (Liberia flag).
1979-to breakers at Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1/10.
Photo: River Scheldt, approaching Terneuzen 5/7/1968.

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Current name:
SEA NAVIGATOR

Former name(s):

 -  Ore Regent (Until 1973 Jan)

IMO:
5264405
Status:
Dead
Build year:
1956
Builder:
National Bulk Carriers - Kure, Japan
Vessel Type:
Bulk Carrier
Gross tonnage:
20,187 tons
Summer DWT:
49,371 tons
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2 photos by 2 photographers

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During the seventies, there was a big demand of officers of European origin to crew these ships. Ludwig was one of them. The German, Dutch, Yugoslav engineers, mates and ro's were well paid. Single youngsters like me, who wanted to save much money, avoiding taxes and social security deductions in a risky and dull enviroment for a year or longer, could pay off with a small capital after having read a complete English literature list in the long lonely months in poor accommodation and bad food. For the Filipino crew it was a different story of course.

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Apparently these ore carriers and the tankers built by Ludwig in Japan had scantlings well in excess of classification requirements so safety shouldn't have been compromised in the conversion. I believe the pay was very good although the accommodation rather poor.

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Thanks Pieter...Nice to know they did ok in the safety aspect at least.
From what you say of the accomodation, at least I was spared such austere surroundings!
Sailed on a few Japanese built ships, spartan yes, but never overly so.
But this sounds a truly depressing environment in which to spend up to 6 months of your life:
Are depressed seafarers "cheaper to run"? Wouldn't have thought so. False economy I'd say.

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Thank you Volker. It would be nice if more members took note and followed suit.
Bob

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Dear Bob.You are one of the few photographer who makes a completly description.You are GREAT.Thank you. Volker

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@Patagualino, as far as I know the Ludwig Japanese built ore carriers were never involved in any serious accident (the US built early post-war tankers though perished one by one). The ore carriers were indeed built with the lowest stnadards of accomodation (in the early seventies I met with somebody who had been on the Ore Neptune) and while the accomodation lacked about every inch of comfort, the objective of the ship, to make money was clearly fulfilled. And yes also in today's competitive markets, ships are constructed purely to make money.

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As an ex-employee on Bulk Carriers...I can only feel relief that I was spared this "Disaster-Waiting-to-Happen" sounds like a true can of worms, designed, modified, & generally messed about with to seek nothing more than profit & with no regard to the souls on board.
Those who condoned this, should hang their heads in shame.

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Thanks Bob I looked at a density table and iron ore has about double the density of bauxite. I suppose the lowering of the tank tops created some extra space, but was it really enough to carry a full load (in DWT terms) of bauxite? Anyway, I guess Ludwig did the math and calculated that this conversion was the cheapest option for a contract of affreigtment, even when using an old turbine powered ore carrier.

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She was converted for the carriage of bauxite. As I understand it, so as to provide the extra volume required for bauxite - as opposed to more dense and heavier ores for which she was designed – the holds were deepened by lowering their tank tops by some nine feet/2.75 metres, down to normal double-bottom height. This conversion was done to enable the ship to fulfil a Ludwig contract to carry bauxite from Weipa to Gladstone - both in Queensland, Australia.

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Interesting conversion. Assuming that as an ore carrier it was fitted with two longitudinal bulkheads (like a tanker in the old days) did they simply remove these two bulkheads to create large holds? According to my LR of 1978 the ship (as a bulkcarrier) has four holds and 12 hatches. Was it done in combination with reinforcing the hull of the ship and construction of saddle tanks? Anybody?

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