71 / 2,548gt / 3,623dwt (GBR) [osc] [o/n : 342086] [c/s : GPUW]

owner : Middle Mersey Effluent Treatment Unit
manager : K. J. Wrigley

built : Ferguson Bros (Pt. Glasgow) 1969 Ltd., Port Glasgow, GBR
yd # : 460
L - 23:09:1971, D - 12:1971

originally built for Manchester Corporation

00 > Cape Georjean (BOL) - Ocean Maritime Ltd.
06 > Tariq (BOL) - Atlantic Bunkering Ltd., Bolivia

sold Pakistani breakers, arrived Gadani Beach 08:05:2006
and beached there 12:05:2006

a rather elegant vessel for an inelegant job, for she is a poo carrier.....dumping the good people of Manchester's toilet waste into the Irish Sea.

photo : Eastham, 23:06:1977
photo : © Dr. Allan Ryszka-Onions

I can see no category for poo tankers, so I will put her into special purposes ships......may be we should have a special poo tankers category, but I guess they are a dying breed as we clean up our act.