TROCHURUS | Helderline.com

Submitted by Kees Helder on Tue, 04/21/2015 - 11:50

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Completed 1945 as Council Crest for U.S.M.C. 1947 purchased by STUK and renamed "TROCHURUS". 8-1959 laid-up Lough Swilly. 3-1962 scrapped Port Glasgow.

Also known as	Council Crest
IMO number	2248075
Call sign	GDTJ
Construction number	140
Tonnage	16.478 ton
Beam	21m
Length overall	169m
Year of construction	1944
Year of renaming/broken up	1962
Service for Shell	1947 to 1962
Cargo	Crude and white oil products
Class	T2
Flag state	Great Britain
Home port	London
Manager	Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers U.K.
Shipyard	Kaiser Inc.Portland Oregon USA
Status	Sailing / Sailed for Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers UK / STUK

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840-570-7242

Permalink Submitted by John Dakin on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 09:28

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1290-570-5167

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Sailors

Name	Job	Period
Captain Roderic...	deck apprentice	1954 to 1955
Alan Makinson	apprentice engineer	1955
John Andy Turner	junior ordinary seaman	1955 to 1956
Graham Cunliffe Fred	deck apprentice	1956 to 1958
Malcolm Stoddart	5th engineer	1956 to 1957
Donald Armstrong	2nd mate	1956 to 1967
Alexander Alex ...	senior ordinary seaman	1958
Iorwerth Williams	junior ordinary seaman	1958

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
01/16/2017 - 00:52	Alexander Alex ...	Trochurus was one of quite a few T2 tankers lying of Queensferry Scotland waiting on crews.I and quite a few others from Grangemouth pool signed on in the town of Linlithgow on the 24 July 1958. I was SoS at the time. We sailed within a day or two and made our way to the West Indies (or was it the east coast of the States) Being only 18 at the time I felt I had the world at my feet. The weather was kind to us thro-out the 2 monthe we were aboard, so lost of bronzying and larking around with my mates. We paid off on the 26 September 1958 in Middlesbrough and went our seperate ways. Said goodby to many friends but kept the memories. Tonight I watched a movie called THE FINEST HOURS which was the true story of a T2 tanker called the Pendleton which broke in half during a storm, some 20 miles from the Nantucket area, Eastern seaboard of the States and how the Engineers and firemen managed to ground the aft section on a shaol and were rescued by a lifeboat from the lifeboat station. I started telling my son and wife about my time on a T2 tanker and now that they are in bed my thoughts brought me to look up info on the Trochurus. I will never forget my time at sea. Wonderful years and mates you would give your life for.
01/07/2013 - 09:28	John Dakin	I was a pupil at Crantock Street Primary School in Newuay, Cornwall, and asa part of a Geography project, we "adopted" the TES Trochurus, and wrote to it's Captain and crew. Captain Ham from Maesteg, in South Wales, came to visit us, with his sons, (one called Cedric) It was very interesting at that time to learn about places that oil tankers visited in those days, long before the internet and other communication methods available today. Captain Ham must now have passed on as this was over 60 years ago - but I have often wondered what happened to the ship, and wonder if Cedric Ham is still alive ?