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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