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Athel Line
Ships
Athelmere
3 ships of this name
1 SS ATHELMERE ( 1922 – 1934 )
ON 145987
Built
1914 Wm. Doxford, Sunderland
For
Sigval Bergesen, Stavanger
as BREIFOND
5656grt 390ft x 53ft
1922 ATHELMERE
1934 January Sold and Broken up at
Barrow in Furmess
Athelmere(1)
2 SS ATHELMERE ( 1936 – 1950 )
1918 Built as Tanker
WAR RAJPUT
8,340 grt 400ft
x 53ft
Shipping Controller, British Tanker Co manager
1920 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London
1922 CONIA same owner
1925 ATHELBEACH, British Molasses Co
1926 United Molasses Co, London
1930 REALF Odd Berg, Oslo
1931 Ronneberg & Geltung, Oslo
1936 ATHELMERE (2), United Molasses Co, London
1951 ALEXANDROS, Mageolia Naviera, Panama
1959 Myrrinella Naviera, Panama
1964 Scrapped at Split.
Athelmere (2)
Athelmere (2)
3 MV ATHELMERE ( 1954 )
Built
1954 Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
For Athel Line Ltd.
CallSign MSJZ
7524
grt
Yard Nr 725
Registered
: Liverpool
459ft
x 61ft 2ins x 25ft 6.5ins
Engines
: Oil 2SA 4Cyl 670 x 2320mm
Twin
screw
Arrived at Faslane on the Gareloch, Scotland, 11 March
1969 for demolition.
Sister
ship to Athelstane (1955).
Athelmere(3)
Photograph by
Joe McMillan
Raymond
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