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Athel Line – Anco

Parcel Tanker Service

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One ship, brought in from Naess Norness

 

ANCO NORNESS    Built as NAESS TIGER

Built 1958  De Schelde, Flushing, Netherlands

For Nederlandse Norness S.V. Mij, Netherlands
16,284 grt; Tanker

1963 P&O joined with Naess Anglo Norness Shipping Company.

1968 CARBO TIGER ; Same Owners

1968 Converted to a Chemical Tanker
1970 ANCO NORNESS ; Same Owners

1971 ANCO NORNESS ; Concord Marine Tpt. Co., Netherlands

1972 ANCO NORNESS ; Norness Shipping Co Inc., Liberia

1974  STOLT EAGLE ; Same Owners

1974  STOLT EAGLE ; Elmo Nav. Inc., Liberia
1977  Arrived at Busan, South Korea, about 14th June,

         for demolition by Dongkuk Steel

 

Anco Norness as Naess Tiger

 

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There were four "Norness" oil tankers.

ASTRID NAESS (1956) Nr 479

NAESS COMMANDER (1957) Nr 480

NAESS LION (1958) Nr 481

NAESS TIGER (1958), which became ANCO NORNESS

Other sections of the Naess orgnisation were transferred to

P&O. Naess, Denholm & Co. Ltd. of the U.K. and

Nederlandse Norness Scheepvaart Maatschappij N.V. of Holland

 

ASTRID NAESS

Built 1956

Nederlandsche Dock & Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam

For Nederlandsche Norness Shipping Mij. NV, (Naess Shipping Co. Inc.), Amsterdam, Netherlands

16,279 brt; 9,482 nrt; 26,040 dwt             

589ft 6ins x 76ft 8ins x 42ft 9ins

8cyl. 2T EV DM Engines by shipbuilder.

1960 ASTRID NÆSS ; Herness Shipping Co. A/S & Inge Svendsen

        (Sigurd Herlofson & Co. A/S), Oslo.

1960 New engines installed

         7cyl. 2T EV B&W DM (Fried. Krupp AG, Essen), 8500 bhp

1970  PETUNIA; I/S Petunia (Svend Foyn Bruun), Tønsberg.

1977  ANDTUN ; I/S Andenæshus (Fekete & Co.), Tønsberg.

1979  Arrived Bilbao for scrapping Hierros Ardes SA

 

Astrid Naess

From the Joe McMillan Collection

 

NAESS COMMANDER

1957  Built Nederlandse Dock, Amsterdam.

Built for Nederlandse Norness S.V. Mij., Netherlands
39,000 dwt;
Turbine Tanker.
1968  Sold to a Greek shipping company.

Naess Commander

 

NAESS LION

1958  Built Nederlandse Dock, Amsterdam.

Built for Nederlandse Norness S.V. Mij., Netherlands
16,277 grt; Tanker
1969  DEMOSTHENES V; N.J. Vardinoyannis, Greece.
1989  Deleted from Lloyds Register.

 

Naess Lion

 

My Thanks to Naess

www.naess.nl

 

Raymond Forward