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Hearts of Oak
Athel Line
Sugar Line
Ships
Silvertown
Ships
In 1950, three steamships were purchased, and named
SUGAR PRODUCER, SUGAR TRANSPORTER and SUGAR REFINER.
SUGAR
PRODUCER
ON
176002
IMO 5260356
Callsign:
VCJW
Built
1945 St John's N.B. as OAKMOUNT PARK; Registered at Montreal.
3103 grt; 315.5 ft x 46.5 ft;
1945 Oakmount Park built as a WW2 - 4,700 ton dwt.
“Scandinavian”
standard vessel for the Canadian Government, (Mgrs: Park Steamship Co.
Ltd.)
Builder:
St John DD & SB Co Ltd, St John, New Brunswick
Engine:
Canadian Iron Foundries Ltd, Three Rivers, Quebec.
Triple
expansion; two single ended boilers; coal furnaces; 10 knots.
1947
Sold to Atlantic Shipping Agencies Ltd; renamed OAKMOUNT.
1948
Sold to Cia Maritima Panamena S.A. Panama; renamed MAKENA II. Registered
Panama.
1950
Sold to Sugar Line Ltd and renamed Sugar Producer. Registered London.
1950
Renamed SUGAR PRODUCER.
1956
Sold to Shamrock Shipping Co Ltd (Mgrs: C S Brown); renamed CURRAN. Registered
London.
1956
Sold to Indonesian Fortune Lloyd, Jakarta; Renamed OCEAN FORTUNE
Callsign:
PKTV. Registered Jakarta.
1968 Name changed by Indonesian Fortune Lloyd to
ONBAK FADJAR.
1979
Sold to Indonesian South East Asia Steamship Co. Jakarta, name unchanged.
1984/5
Still in Lloyds Register
1986/7
No longer in Lloyds Register.
Thanks
to Nigel Collett for additional detail.
Park Type 4,700 dwt “Scandinavian” standard ship
SUGAR
TRANSPORTER
ON
180082
Built 1945
by Wm. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool as EMPIRE
CAICOS
Launched
28th February 1945
Built for Ministry of War Transport [MOWT]
328ft
x 46ft 6ins x 20ft 10ins
3538
grt
Triple expansion by Central Marine Engine Works. m/c aft; 10 knots.
1945 [MOWT] managed by H. Hogarth & Sons Ltd.
Ardrossan
1946 [MOWT] Managed by Rodney SS Co. London
1950 Sold to Tate & Lyle Ltd; renamed SUGAR
TRANSPORTER.
1950
SUGAR TRANSPORTER Silvertown Services Ltd. London [Dalgleish Ltd. Newcastle]
1951 Managed
by Kentships Ltd.[Dalgleish Ltd. Newcastle, Australia]
1951 Owners given as Silvertown Services Ltd.
London
1957
sold to James Patterson & Co. Melbourne and renamed PATTAWILYA.
1961
her owners became McIlwraith McEacharn.
1962
sold to John Manners & Co. Registered Hong Kong.
1962
Renamed CLOVELLY Cronulla Shipping Co, Hong Kong.
1963 Owners San Jeronimo SS Co, Panama.
6th
January 1967 Damaged in heavy weather, on voyage Yokohama to Surabaya.
9th
January Towed in to Sasebo.
1967 Scrapped Uchiumi, Shodo Island.
Sugar
Transporter ( 1950 )
Photograph
Courtesy Joe McMillan
SUGAR REFINER
ON
180083
Built 1945 by Wm. Gray & Co., West Hartlepool as EMPIRE ALDGATE
Launched 10th May 1945
3485
grt
1948 THACKERAY Rodney Steamship Co [Anglo Danubian Transport];
London
1950 SUGAR REFINER Silvertown Services Ltd London; [Dalgleish Ltd. Newcastle]
1958 SAN PATRICIO Valck & Monckton, Valparaiso
1962 Worldwide Maritime Co, Liberia.
1965 SAN MIGUEL Altair Maritime Corp, Liberia.
12th
September 1965 entered Las Palmas with boiler trouble.
October 1965 Towed into Tarragona and abandoned by owners.
1967
Scrapped Cartagena (September).
Sugar Transporter and Sugar Reginer were both Empire Ships of the “Empire
Malta” Class.
Also
known as “Scandinavian-type ships”. Machinery
aft, triple expanion; 11 knots. 82 ft poop,
raised
quarter deck of 197 ft, foc’sle 29 ft. 4,310 dwt. 250,700 ton capacity (grain).
These were
built
as general purpose vessels, included was a crane of 80 ton capacity, the ships
were capable
of
carrying coal or oil, or heavy vehicles such as military tanks or locomotives.
Water
ballast capacity 1,327 tons. There was
also 100 tons of permanent ballast midships.
Also
fitted with a 50 ton crane, and 4 x 3 ton derricks and a further 4 x 3 ton
derricks on the mainmast.
Raymond
Forward