Ah.. I'm just catching up with all the comments. Thanks guys. I recollect now that she was a casualty but because I didn't write it on the back of my photo, I forgot. That would explain the missing lifeboat and, probably, the portable generator unit.
Cheers,
Phil

I should have looked before I posted my last commen!. You have solved part of my mystery, Alan.

I photographed this one just over a year later, in June 1984, as it was laid-up near Naantali, Finland. It has always been a bit of a mystery ship to me. I had (and still have) a May 1984 edition of Lloyd's Shipping Index but BAY CLUB is not in it. I never did find out who the operator was or exactly how it came to be laid up in Naantali after becoming a CTL. Both lifeboats are missing in my photo (which I will upload shortly) but I can't see if that semi-trailer gen-set is still on the after deck.

HI all

According to my records, she suffered an engine room fire, 10:04:1983, posn : 47.54N, 28.57W, voy : New Orleans > Antwerp. She was abandoned by her crew, and the vessel towed to Rotterdam. She was then sold to Teollisuudeen Romu and chartered to the Finnish Govt. as a grain store, being towed to Naantali, FIN, where she arrived 27:08:1983.

She was then sold to breakers in Santander, where she arrived 3 July 1985.

I have a pic of her taken in Turku in August 1983.

hope this helps,

Allan

Sea-Web says she became a "Total Loss, in Casualty" in April 1983, so I assume she may perhaps have had an engine room fire. Sea-Web has a FotoFlite picture of her from starboard, with two tugs assisting. The starboard lifeboat was also missing in that picture. She did have a bride, it is just hidden behind the bix box superstructure in the above picture. She was 67,901 dwt.

It looks like the lifeboat port side is "missing", photo taken during drill? And is that a "portable" generator set on her aft mooring station?(It looks like a container?) True, veeery strange design :-)

Soon I´ll upload a photo of this ship when she was entering in sanntander´s scrapyard

Sha was scrapped in santander (spain) and, really, she was a very, very strange ship

It's not a thing of beauty Phil, that's for sure :-o