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Photographer:
Malcolm Cranfield [ View profile ]
Title:
Omiris
Photo Category:
Casualties
Added:
Mar 16, 2024
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Image Resolution:
1,664 x 1,134

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Posted to complement Kasper's photo of KNSM's 1955 built OSIRIS as GLYFADA:

At the end of October 1978, during a voyage from Baton Rouge to Georgetown with a cargo of bagged meal, OMIRIS had an engine room fire and ran aground. On 2nd November 1978, while berthed at Georgetown, she suffered a further fire and was condemned, subsequently being towed to Brownsville during 1981.

Image supplied by Harry Stott

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Current name:
OMIRIS

Former name(s):

 -  Glyfada (Until 1975)

 -  Osiris (Until 1970)

Vessel Type:
General Cargo
Gross tonnage:
2,907 tons
Summer DWT:
3,952 tons

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Pieter and friends, just to relay the information that KNSM had designed the IS-class based on the C1-M-AV1 type

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OMIRIS caught fire October 1978 at Georgtown and was towed by the Dutch tug Noord Holland to Curacao, arriving there April 1979. Subsequently sold to a German scrap trader and towed to Brownsville where she arrived November 1979 and was broken up in January 1980 according to the Dutch Marhis site, and in January 1981 according to IHS data. To me it looks like Harry Stotts photo could have been taken in Curacao rather than in Brownsville, and that the tug is the Noord Holland.

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Many thanks Pieter. I concur that Brownsville is probably not the location of the photo. Harry Stott thinks it was taken at Barranquilla - perhaps as a port of refuge during the tow?

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person
There is no reference to a call there, but it could also have been a stop for a crew change or bunkering for the tug. It is not far out of the way from the shortest route from Curacao to Brownsville

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The picture must be from a later date. After 1984. The tug alongside id the former Dutch tug "Barentsz-Zee". On the picture her name is "El Buzcador". She got that name after being sold in 1984.

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Many thanks Robert. I note from Miramar website that EL BUZCADOR was in 1985 renamed C.A.R.T.II and scuttled by her crew on 30.8.86.

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