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EVIE G. CHIMPLES - IMO 5037149
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Name: EVIE G. CHIMPLES
58 BARON JEDBURGH -67 EVIE G. CHIMPLES 77 GLOBAL MARINER
IMO: 5037149
Year: 1958
Type: Cargo ship
Flag: IBERIA
Tons: 8337
DWT: 11675
Length overall: 140.7
Beam: 18.2
Country of build: GBR
Builder: Readhead
Location of yard: South Shields
On 30th December 1978, GLOBAL MARINER ran aground andwas wrecked off Decimil, 50 miles N of Massawa on a voyage from Nantes, France to Assab with a cargo of bagged wheat.
(Thanks to BobS for the ID and Info.)
Picture taken in August, 1977, of an unknown freighter in the Straits of Gibraltar.
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- Baron Jedburgh (Until 1967)
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General cargo ships built 1950-1959 (Over 3000gt) - 3 photos
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Sold by Hogarth's in 1967, she bore the EVIE G CHIMPLES name, under the Liberian flag and registered ownership of Intercontinental Maritime Ltd, until 1977, when she was sold to Lelakis Shipping Ltd, Piraeus and renamed GLOBAL MARINER.
On 30th December 1978, GLOBAL MARINER ran aground andwas wrecked off Decimil, 50 miles N of Massawa on a voyage from Nantes, France to Assab with a cargo of bagged wheat.
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Paul
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It is actually still EVIE G CHIMPLES in your photo. The C on the funnel is for George C Chimples, the Greek shipowner who was based in Cleveland, Ohio.Also, if you look closely at the name I think you will find it lokks more like the Chimples name than the later one.
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Bob
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