| VICTORIA(IMO No: 5379743) 
 Marc Piché  2007/9/30 6:31
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O.M. Thore's Swedish-flag general cargo ship VICTORIA as shown while upbound on the St.Lawrence River off Verchères in May 1964.
She originally started life in 1930 as VASAHOLM for Svenka Amerika and was acquired by Thore in 1954. She left Swedish registry in 1965 and went Greek first as STAVROS (S.A. Daifas) and then as PRIAMOS in 1967 (Kostogiannis) before finally being sent to the breakers at Istanbul in March 1973 after a career spanning 43 years. Those were the days!!!
John Low-Marc Piché collection. |
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| Hellas Liberty
Angel Luis Godar Moreira 2009/7/18 13:49
1621 3
| At sea Spanish southern coast towed by tug POSEJDON for demolition. |
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| Glenstrae
waimea 2008/7/4 5:35
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| Glen Line's Glenstrae (9,460gt) was built in 1922 by Harland & Wolff at their Govan yard as Glengarry. She was renamed Glenstrae in 1939 and moved within the Group to Blue Funnel in 1949 at which time she was renamed Dolius. As such she was scrapped at Briton Ferry in 1952. This shot is from a glass plate taken at Port Adelaide in 1949. |
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| J.W. PAULIN(IMO No: 5167011)
Marc Piché 2007/10/15 7:39
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J.W. PAULIN as shown while downbound on the St.Lawrence River in May 1964.
Built in 1936 by Burmeister & Wain as SKAGERAK for Norwegian-owned A/S Skagerak (Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen jr, managers), she survived World War II and was sold in 1954 to Finnish-owned Paulins Rederi A/B of Abo (Turku) who renamed her J.W. PAULIN as depicted here.
In 1965, she went Greek (Tsourinakis Bros) who renamed SOFIA T and CAPETAN ANDREAS T (1966) before finally going to the breakers at Whampoa in 1970.
Original John Low slide scanned by Marc Piché and published here with his kind permission. |
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| BRISBANE STAR
Ken Smith 2007/8/1 15:09
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| BRISBANE STAR 11,124-1937 at Southampton 1954 |
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| Port Quebec
waimea 2008/5/15 5:34
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| A fine underway shot of Port Line's Port Quebec (6,294) at Port Adelaide in the early 1950s, an image preserved on a glass plate. She was built in 1939 by J.L.Thompson & Sons, Sunderland, was requisitioned incomplete by the Admiralty, converted to a minelayer by Furness Ship Building, Haverton Hill for the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Port Quebec. In 1943 she was converted into an aircraft maintenance repair vessel by John Brown & Co. at Clydebank and renamed HMS Deer Sound. She was finally delivered to Port Line in December 1947 and took up her intended name. Surely one of the few ships to have gone through four ship builders prior to delivery to her owners in that her conversion to her intended role was done by Swan,Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle. She served the company on the Montreal/Australia/New Zealand (MANZ) service until she went for scrap at Keelung where work commenced in December 1968. |
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| Hellas Liberty
Angel Luis Godar Moreira 2009/7/18 13:49
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| At sea Spanish southern coast towed by tug POSEJDON for demolition. |
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| EMPIRE COUGAR
Cpt. Lawrence Dalli 2008/6/13 5:49
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1919 built classic ship moored @ Pieta Creek inside Marsamxetto Harbour, Malta - circa 1943/1944.
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| SS Stephano
Al Simpson 2007/10/1 4:15
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| Sealing in early 1900s around Bay Bulls NFLD |
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| Lycaon
waimea 2008/6/19 3:17
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| A view preserved on glass plate. Alfred Holt's Lycaon (7.552) at Port Adelaide in 1949. She was built by Hawthorn, Leslie at Hebburn in 1913 and served her owners for over 39 years, being scrapped in 1952. She was moved within the group to Glen Line in 1951 at which time she was renamed Gleniffer. |
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