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Ships
Atheltarn
2 ships of this name
1 ATHELTARN
ON 139184
Built
1917 Barclay, Curie & Co. Ltd.,
Glasgow
Yard
Nr 539; built as BOXLEAF
For
Lane McAndrew Ltd
(
Fleet sister ship, LIMELEAF became ATHELRILL )
7385
grt; 4580 nrt; 10280 dwt
450ft
x 58ft x 35ft 5ins
900
nhp
Triple
expansion engines
Call
Sign : TFBG
1919 14th Dec : Renamed INDIA; Dutch company
1924
Renamed ATHELTARN; British Molasses Co Ltd
1928
Renamed ZUIYO MARU; Nippon Tanker K.K
1944 1st October : Torpedoed and sunk
by submarine USS CABRILLA position 16.11N 119.44E; off Olongapo, Philippines. On voyage to Cape
Bolinao (Luzon).
Atheltarn (1) ex Boxleaf
2 ATHELTARN
ON
161116.
1,179 grt
221ft
9ins x 36ft 4ins
Built
1929 Cammell, Laird & Co,
Birkenhead
Vessel Nr V0958
For
United Molasses Co, Liverpool
1933 20th March
The Times : Trawler Sunk in Collision - Eight Lives Lost.
Aberdeen
Correspondent March 19th
Eight
memebers of the crew of the Granton trawler SUCCESSION lost their lives when
their vessel sank after a collision with the Liverpool tanker ATHELTARN, 104
miles north-east by east of Aberdeen, this morning.
The names of the lost men are ...
Thomas Lees, skipper and
owner of the vessel, Park Road, Newhaven.
David Falconer, deck hand, and
William Falconer ( brothers ) of Granton.
Adam Smith, deck hand, Harbour Street, Findochty.
Malcolm Buchan, chief engineer, Cannon Street, Leith.
James Gordon, fireman, Loch End, Leith.
William Nicholson, cook, Balfour Street, Leith.
Two
members of the crew, William Smith, the mate, Graham street, Leith and James
Swanney, second fisherman, Lapicide Place, Leith, escaped. The collision
occurred at about 5 am in a heavy sea during a snowstorm. The ATHELTARN, which
is of 1179 tons gross, struck the trawler amidships on the starboard side,
penetrating lamost to the wheelhouse. Smith, the mate, was in the wheelhouse.
Swanney, who was on deck attending the trawl board, saw the ATHELTARN loom up
out of the darkness and shouted to Smith. The tanker was only 50 or 60 feet
away, and a collison could not be avoided thought the mate swung the trawler
over as far as he could. Swanney shouted to the men sleeping in the forecastle
that the trawler was sinking, as it was obvious that she could not remain
afloat for many minutes. Smith said afterwards that “the tanker's bow was close
to the wheelhouse. I grasped the rail, got an arm around a bollard and
succeeded in pulling myself on board. I caught sight of the skipper and shouted
to him, but I immediately lost sight of him again, for the ship became involved
in steam as the main steam pipe of our trawler was broken. Swanney came on to
the veranda of the wheelhouse and I succeeded in catching hold of him and
pulling him on board the ATHELTARN. Before he came up, however, he was struck
by the wheelhouse and severely bruised on the side”. The ATHELTARN, which was
on her way from Danzig to Garston, near Liverpool, belongs to the Molasses
Company, Ltd..
1940
Owners restyled Athel Line Ltd, Liverpool.
1952
Sold to Everard Shipping Co, London renamed ACCLIVITY.
1966
Scrapped at Boom, Belgium.
Atheltarn 1928
Atheltarn(2)
Photograph
Courtesy of Joe McMillan
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Raymond
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