BARON MURRAY

Australian

Scottish Ship Management Ltd.

1977 - ?

Length 534.3Ft Beam 75.2 Draft 34.2 Grt 20,819 Net 11,510 Dwt 32,490
Powered by a Mitsui 7 cylinder B & W DE7K7 4 EF oil engine.

April 1977: Completed by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Chiba, Japan for Baron

Murray Shipping Co. Ltd., Scottish Ship Management Ltd., Glasgow, managers. Bareboat chartered

to British Phosphate Commissioners.
August

1981: Returned to owners and bareboat chartered to The Australian National line.

1987: Sold to Seafarer Shipping Co. Ltd. Acomarit Maritime Services UK Ltd. Hong Kong flag,

renamed TAIMA.

1988: Sold, renamed HANSA EXPLORER.

1989: Sold, Croma Maritime Ltd. Iason Hellenic Shipping Co. Ltd., managers. Cyprus flag.

Renamed CARAVOS EXPLORER.

2003: Sold, Germtrans. Falcon Shipping, managers. Mongolia flag. Renamed BRAVERY FALCON.

Last Heard Reported broken up.

Information supplied by John Hoskin...http://www.flotilla-australia.com

Photo Credits: The late Don Ross Collection