CAMBERWELL
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date30 April 1958
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 262'2" x breadth 39'5" x depth 18'7"
Gross Tonnage: 1877 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1877 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002552
Keywords
Yard Number: 864
Official Number: 147619
Subsequent Names: CLIMPING (1972)
Fate: Sent to Spain to be broken up in January 1980.
Propulsion: Motor
Description: Cargo vessel (collier), 1 deck, machinery aft.
Owners:
1958: South Eastern Gas Board, London. Manager: A.G. Gostelow, then D. K. Jacobs in 1968
1972: Stephenson Clarke Shipping Ltd, London. Renamed CLIMPING.
General History:
Naming ceremony performed by Mrs Stanton. Sister ship to DULWICH, LAMBETH and EWELL - specially designed for shipment of coal from N.E. ports to upper reaches of the Thames (low tunnels, telescopic masts etc). Note the "extensive use of plastic materials for bulkheads and for lining the accommodation; and an increasingly high standard of accommodation"... "This is as it should be considering the rapid turnaround of ships of this kind and the high proportion of time spent at sea relative to that in port".
Photos:
(1) of engine room
(2) crew cabin
(3) naming ceremony
(Burntisland & Hall Russell Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12-14)
Note: 8 cylinder (340x570 mm) diesel engine by British Polar EnginesLtd., Glasgow.
1870
