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Ships
Athelstane
5 ships of this
name
1 ATHELSTANEATHELSTANE (1)
ON 145972
Call Sign KMRC
2376 grt; 1442 net
261ft x 43ft 8ins x draught 21ft 2ins
Triple expansion, 1500 ihp, made by McDougall Duluth;
speed 9.5 knots
1920 Completed by McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding Co,
Duluth, Minnesota (ship no 36)
For US Food Products, USA, as THEODORE F REYNOLDS
(US flag)
1922 When at Hull (laid up), sold for $7500 to British
Molasses Co Ltd, renamed ATHELSTANE.
About 1926 Sold to Skibs-A/S Oljetransport (manager S
Dahl & Co A/S, Oslo), renamed GARD.
Feb 1928 Sold Japan, renamed GARD MARU
1929 Sold Dairen Kisen Kaisya, Dairen (manager
Minamimansyu Tetudo KK, Dairen), renamed HOJO MARU
1938 Renamed HOZYO MARU
About 1946 Sold to Toho Kaiun KK, Tokyo
1949 Sold Sumitomo Sekitan Kogyo KK, renamed HOJO MARU
Still in service in 1953
Believed broken up in Japan in 1954-55
Unfortunately this ship is GARD
at Malta but NOT the ex ATHELSTANE (1)
If anyone has and would like to share a picture of the ATHELSTANE (1)
Please contact me.
2 ATHELSTANEATHELSTANE (1)
ON 161078
Built 1928 Goole Shipbuilding
Yard Nr 284
838grt
Sister ship to ATHELBRAE (ON 82930)
1928 The Times 3rd December : Oil Tanker Launched.
The Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Company (1927), Ltd.,
last week launched an oil tanker which has been built to the order of The
United Molasses Company Ltd., of London. The vessel is 185 ft in length (BP),
and will have two large cargo oil pumps to deal with the cargo, which is
carried in 12 tanks. Immediately after the launch, the steamer left for the
works at Sunderland of Messrs McColl and Pollock, who are supplying the
machinery. Before leaving the ways, the vessel was named Athelstane by Mrs G.S.
Hopley, wife of Captain G.S. Hopley - one of the directors of the United
Molasses Company Ltd, who was also present. The vessel and her machinery have
been built to Lloyd's highest class under the superintendence of Messres T.T.
Kennaugh and Co. of Liverpool.
1935 Sold to Hunting & Co., Newcastle. Renamed
CREOFIELD
1940 1st February :
Torpedoed by U-59 off Great Yarmouth.
Athelstane(2) as CREOFIELD
Photograph
Courtesy of George Robinson
3 ATHELSTANE
Built
as WAR GHURKA
WW1-Standard
Z type Tanker: engines and all superstructure amidships.
5,571
grt 3,397 nt
400ft
x 52ft 4ins.
1918
December Completed by Irvines S.B.
& D.D. Co., West Hartlepool
For
Shipping Controller, managed by Hunting & Son
1919
Purchased by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London (Shell )
1921
CAPRELLA, same owner
1924
Sold to British Molasses Co, London
1925
renamed ATHELFOAM
1926
United Molasses Co; Athel Line formed.
1931
Owners G.O.Aarvold, Oslo renamed HIRD,
on charter to Athel Line.
1935
Renamed ATHELSTANE, United Molasses Co
1939
Athel Line Ltd, London
1941
Tankers Ltd, London
1942 9th April Bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft at
07.30N 81.56E, near Ceylon, whilst
serving as Royal Fleet Auxiliary on passage from Trincomalee for Colombo. All of
her crew survived the ferocious Japanese air attack.
Athelstane(3) as ATHELFOAM
4 ATHELSTANE
GSN 20025647
ON
165814
8,129
grt
468ft
5ins x 59ft 5ins
Single
screw, 12 knots.
Built
1941 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle
as
the EMPIRE FLINT
For
MOWT, managed by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London. ( Shell )
1945
purchased by Tankers Ltd (Athel Line - United Molasses Co), Liverpool
Renamed ATHELSTANE.
1952
sold to Skibs A/S Vaholm (Holmen & Vaboen), Kristiansand, Norway;
Renamed OAKLEY.
1957
owned by Holmens Rederi A/S & Vaboens Rederi A/S.
1960
sold to Harald A. Moller A/S, Oslo.
1961
scrapped Hamburg by Eckhardt & Co
Athelstane (4)
Photograph
kindly provided by
Thomas Weis
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
5 ATHELSTANE
ON
187109
Built 1955 by Hawthorn Leslie Ltd, Newcastle
For
Athel Line.
CallSign:GTPT
Registered
: Liverpool
7,517
grt
459ft
x 61ft 4ins x 25ft 6.5ins
Engines
: Oil 2SA 4Cyl 670 x 2320mm
Twin
screw
1969
scrapped at Faslane.
Athelstane(5)
Athelstane at
Houston
Photograph by David Edge
Raymond
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