LLANGORSE | Helderline.com

Submitted by Kees Helder on Tue, 06/02/2015 - 16:56

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Was origionally ordered by Shell Tankers but sold before completion as "LLANGORSE" to Radcliffe Tankers. 1960-1976 time-charter for STUK. 1976 scrapped Kaohsiung.

IMO number	5209950
Call sign	GHCV
Construction number	499
Tonnage	35.640 ton
Beam	26m
Length overall	203m
Year of construction	1960
Year of renaming/broken up	1976
Service for Shell	1960 to 1976
Cargo	Crude and white oil products
Class	V-class 29.000 / 33.000 ton
Flag state	Great Britain
Home port	London
Manager	Evan Tomas Radcliffe Tankers Cardiff
Shipyard	Furness Shipbuilding Company Haverton Hill
Status	Sailing / Sailed for Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers UK / STUK

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Permalink Submitted by Robert Green on Mon, 05/25/2015 - 20:13

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Sailors

Name	Job	Period	Details
Robert Green	senior ordinary seaman	1967 to 1969

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
05/25/2015 - 20:13	Robert Green	II WAS ON THE 4 TO 8 MORNING WATCH WITH THE CHIEF OFFICER,WE WHERE CROSSING THE AUSTRALIAN BIGHT IN VERY HEAVY WEATHER GOING TO GEELONG ,THE WAVES WERE VERY HIGH FORCE 8-9 AND THE SKY WAS GREY. THE SHIP WAS HEAD INTO THE WIND AND SEA. AT ABOUT 0500HRS THE SHIP BURIED HER HEAD INTO THE SEA JUST AS A LARGE WAVE COVERED THE WHOLE FORE DECK WE COULD NO LONGER SEE ANY OF THE DECK AND THE SHUDDERING WAS VERY SEVERE AS SHE TRIED TO GET HER HEAD BACK UP AGAIN THIS WENT ON WHICH SEEMED TO GO ON FOR EVER BUT THANK GOD SHE LIFTED HER HEAD AGAIN .ABOUT HALF HOUR LATER THE CHIEF OFFICER CAME OUT ONTO THE BRIDGE WING TO TELL ME HE THOUGH WE WERE AGONER