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Completed 1955 as "ISANDA" for Shell France. 1966 jumboised (from 32.380 ton to 62.206 ton) at Le Havre. New forepart and cargo section. The old forepart left Le Havre to be joined at the afterpart of the T2 tanker Westfield. Renamed Vantage Horizon. The Isanda sold in 1973 to Thai Ocean Transport Co. (TOTCO) and renamed "SIAM". 1976 arrived Kaohsiung for scrap.

Also known as	SIAM
IMO number	5164071
Call sign	FOJS
Construction number	K 15
Tonnage	62.206 ton
Beam	26m
Length overall	201m
Year of construction	1955
Year of renaming/broken up	1976
Service for Shell	1955 to 1973
Cargo	Crude and white oil products
Class	I-class 32.000 ton
Flag state	France
Home port	Le Havre
Manager	Societe Maritime Shell Francais
Shipyard	Chantiers de L'Atlantic Shipyard Saint Nazaire France
Status	Sailing / Sailed for Societe Maritime Shell / Shell France

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Sailors

Name	Job	Period	Details
Lanson Daniel	4th engineer	1956
Jahan	mate	1958 to 1959
Marlier Georges	3rd officer	1960
Le Bihan Yvon	novice machine	1961
Le Bouder Jean Paul	novice machine	1962 to 1963
Alain Ozaneaux	mechanical engineer	1963
Coutin Jean Marie	cadet	1965	cadet pont
Dominique Dupont	pilotin radio	1966
Anonymous	radio officer	1967 to 1969
Samzun Rene	mechanical engineer	1968 to 1967	chef mecanicien
Henri Van Heffen	radio officer	1968 to 1969
Andre Nicolas	cadet	1968 to 1969
Pascal Blanchard	cadet	1970 to 1972
Santais Didier	cadet	1972 to 1973

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
10/01/2017 - 16:33	Michael Spencer	I sailed on both the Isanda and the Isocardia as 3rd Engineer. This was when they had been jumboised and sold to Thai Ocean and renamed Siam and Bangkok respectively. We had Thai ex navy engineers sailing with us and had to train them to run these ships. I had an ex Thai lieutenant commander as a trainee, I wrote him a four hour check sheet to cover the whole watch, big mistake. Check list example: 0800 put on kettle and make tea, 0820 make inspection rounds of engine room, 0900 report any defects to me etc. 0825 I walked round engine room and discovered duty boiler feed pump running nearly cherry red, changed over pumps and shouted on my trainee. Asked him why he hadn't come to me about the hot pump. His answer gobsmacked me, he pointed to his check sheet and said, it written to report defects at 0900, not 0900 yet. Taught me a lesson. I sailed for Denholm Ship Management of Glasgow on these ships. I cannot remember whether it was the Siam or Bangkok but on these ships the Engineers cabins were aft on the main deck. A rough crossing of the bay of Biscay saw us pooped by a huge wave which ripped the aft anchor winch off the deck and caused all sorts of other damage. It was just after mid-day and we were all in the electricians cabin, the fourth from aft on the Stbd side. We heard a great crash and rushing of water, the alleyway was full from deck to deck head with water, it started to fill the cabin and all we heard was the lekky shouting save the ******* fridge. There we were up to our waists in water holding a fridge full of beer above us, definitely beer more important than us drowning. Hope I haven't been boring.