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SAN GEROLAMO - IMO 5079563

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Photographer:
Rick Vince [ View profile ]
Title:
San Gerolamo
Photo Category:
Bulkers Built 1950-1960
Added:
Dec 4, 2019
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Image Resolution:
2,818 x 1,849

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**With thanks and gratitude to all of you who kindly contributed to the identification of this Italian-built bulker.**

I have re-scanned the original slide and have to agree that the name/ship can only be this one.

Launched on 24/04/1960 and completed at the shipyard during September 1960 by Cantieri Navali Ansaldo, Livorno, Italy (1564)
11,095 g.t. and 16,176 dwt., as:
'Corallina' to 1980,
'Coclertre' to 1981,
'San Gerolamo' to 1982 and
'Shum River' until sold to South Korea for demolition.
Arrived Pusan on 17/11/1982.
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Assistance requested to identify this bulker, please.

The ship appears to be brand new or very well maintained.

The image is a scan from a badly deteriorated slide; I cannot be sure if it is correctly portrayed or is back-to-front.
I am guessing that it is the correct way round, due to the layout of the ship's name on the stern, which may read 2 or 3 letters, followed by a longer word.

Unknown location and date but probably between 1964 and 1971.

Copyright owned.

From the collection of the late Niels Anker Larsen, former Danish Merchant Navy Radio Officer.

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Current name:
SHUM RIVER

Former name(s):

 -  San Gerolamo (Until 1982)

 -  Coclertre (Until 1981)

IMO:
5079563
Status:
Dead
Build year:
1960
Builder:
Azimut Benetti Livorno - Livorno, Italy
Vessel Type:
Bulk Carrier
Gross tonnage:
11,094 tons
Summer DWT:
17,950 tons
Photos:
2 photos by 2 photographers

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..and finally:
Thank you Malcolm for details into the convoluted ownership and operator arrangement.
Rick

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person
My contact in the Ravano family advises that the Caemi Group (Mr.Savasta) was a broker with whom the family had strong relationship. The ship may therefore have been commercially operated, but not owned, by Ravano.

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person
Thanks everyone for discussing and eventually identifying this ship as SAN GEROLAMO, a ship of which I was otherwise unaware, owned by Caemi International S.p.A. of Genoa.

Lloyd's Confidential Indexes from the 1980s list Caemi International Ltd as the London agents of Tidewater Commercial Co. Inc., the United States company owned by Alberto Ravano. Tidewater Commercial had operated the similar vessel WHITE RIVER.

Best regards. Malcolm Cranfield

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Hull form by Jane`s Merchant Ships:
Definition: The arrangement of castles or islands, on the hull.
The reporting method is simple: The castles are numbered:
1-Forecastle
2-Midcastle
3-Poop
The letter H is placed before the numerals: e.g. H13, H2 etc. A flush-decked vessel is simply reported as H.
Several combinations are possible.
Rgds, Manfred

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Thank you all for your input.
The reason I have hesitated over naming her San Gerolima is that I am not sure if Mr. Niels Anker Larsen was still at sea by 1981.
I will rescan the slide in the highest possible resolution before finally naming this bulker.

Pieter, Yvon, I too am unaware of the ship coding system.

Thanks yet again.
Rick

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Thank you Yvon, is there anywhere some info that describes this coding system in more detail?

And yes, I think that San Gerolima is still the most likely option. The 17-20000 DWT bulker was a popular vessel among Italian shipbuilders around the late fifties, early sixties, a rough count resulted in 26 individual ships, with 16 coming from Ansaldo and six from Navalmeccanica (which could have been part of the Ansaldo Group already at that time). Many are distinctly different (Bridge aft with cargo gear, midships bridge with cargo gear) but most choose the midship bridge no gear option.

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@Pieter, the mystery ship must be coded H13 as she is fitted with supports for the upper deck (you can walk on the same deck from forecastle to poop).
AUCTORITAS has structure under the upperdeck (code 2).
Regards,
yvon

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Must be the Corallina, she was later renamed "SAN GEROLAMO", and if you zoom into the hull, you find tree letter first name, followed by what seems like eight letters.
Tomas

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I'm going round in circles, so will give it a rest for a while.
Ansaldo shipyard built a series of these bulkers from 1955 onwards. Some had the 'solid' bridge supports, some had the twin supports.
There does not seem to be a reason, as yet.

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@pieter:
Yes, considered but she got huge air vents aft of the bridge house.....

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person
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2898130

As per Malcolm C, also a Ravano ship.

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person
Has this one already been considered? Built a year earlier than Corallina and fitted with same bridge supports as the mystery ship.

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1819044

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Yvon, can you explain what you mean by these hull codes? How do you know that the mystery ship is H13?

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@Rick, As I said in my comment about some details, she cannot be AUCTORITAS which hull must be coded H123 while the mystery ship is coded H13.
Yvon

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????
https://www.balticshipping.com/vessel/imo/5079563

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person
Hi Manfred. Good point.

The photos of the Corallina also show the aft accommodation ladder to be fitted higher, on the *boat* deck, not the *upper* deck, unlike the ship above, and the same as in all other photos of 'Auctoritas'.

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On all available photos of AUCTORITAS I am missing the two bridge accommodation supports on main deck which are visible here, like CORALLINA has.
If the name is of one word after all it might also be COCLERTRE (CORALLINA`s second name 1980-81).
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=AUCTORITAS&x=32&y=10
Rgds, Manfred

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Pieter, all understood. Thanks.

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BTW, our member Malcolm Cranfield is the expert on Ravano, if he can confirm that this Auctoritas, then we a 100% certainty.

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Pieter, Ravano was the best of leads, thank you.

Lloyds shows the 'Auctoritas' was trading right up until sold for demolition.
March 1979, Ghent for Philadelphia.
May 1979, sailed from Cartagena (Spain) on 12/05/29179 for Emden..... but never arrived!
Arrived 14/05/1979 at La Spezia for demolition.

Twenty years of service; one name, one Italian company. Not bad!

I'll wait and see if Yvon has anything to add...

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person
At least my first comment on Ravano colours proved to be correct, if it is the Auctoritas...

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Thanks again Pieter. You summary is quite feasible.

One other reason I think it is the Auctoritas, is due to the excellent condition, as presented, in the second, later photo.

The ship is unladen and could even be laid up. I will check some Lloyds Indexes.

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Yvon, I think you are correct. Auctoritas.
I have studied the photos and cannot see any structural differences at all.
The photo above is, I believe, a much older image than the one on Navi e Armatori, and the only significant changes are a darker paint scheme for the upper parts of the ship: masts, hatch covers, hold ventilators, lifeboats & etc.

I think it is my mistake in assuming the name on the stern is in two parts. I believe it is just the one name and port of registry 'Genova'.

Any comments?

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person
She became San Gerolima in 1981 and sailed as such only for one year. She may have just come out of drydock for her new owners in 1981, who then in 1982 realised that the oil crises had hit the bulk markets too. She became Shum River in 1982, and was scrapped in Korea one year later.

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Pieter, yes, agreed.
I had (almost) ruled that out due to the age of the ship at the supposed time of the photo. If it is so, then she is in remarkable condition for an old bulker!

I am still ploughing through every Italian bulker of the era.

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Thanks for the input Manfred and Yvon.
I had found the Corallina and identified it as identical/almost identical.
Here's an AERIAL shot of her.
But as you say, cannot find a ship with matching name and letters, yet.
Rick

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person
If the period in which the picture was taken can be streched to 1981, than the third name of the Corallina, i.e. San Gerolamo, could well match the ship we are looking for.

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Agree with you Mandred, but cannot find a name with 2 or 3 letters, followed by a longer word in her sister-ships.
AUCTORITAS seemed also a good candidate with her funnel colors (Adriatico Tirrenio Jonio Ligure), but some details don't match :
http://www.naviearmatori.net/albums/userpics/10024/Auctoritas.jpg
Regards,
Yvon

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Might be a sister to this one:

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1930804

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Many thanks for the lead Pieter.
I will research it. The first three letters of the name do look like 'San'.

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person
I think it is an Italian built ship, flying the Ravano colours, but I can't come up with a name.

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