SUGAR CARRIER
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1 December 1959
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 401' x breadth 58' x depth 32'
gross tonnage: 6358 ton
gross tonnage: 6358 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002559
Keywords
Yard Number: 871
Official Number: 301069
Subsequent Names: VALLILA (1969); ELMINER (1976); OMEGA LEROS (1980); MARINER (1983)
Fate: Scrapped in 1985.
Propulsion: Motor
Description: Bulk sugar carrier, 1 deck, quarterdeck 101', forecastle 53', machinery aft
Owners:
1959: Silvertown Services Shipping Ltd, later Sugar Line Ltd.
1969: Etaliä-Suomen Laiva o/y Helsinki, Finland.
1976: Elminer S.A. Panama.
1980: Leros Shipping Co. LH., Piraeus, Greece.
1983: Seaboard Maritime Inc.
Notes:
SUGAR CARRIER was, at that time, the largest vessel ever built in Aberdeen.
Launched 1 December 1959 by Mrs J. O. Whitmee, wife of a director of Tate & Lyle, who "performed the naming ceremony with such vigour that she got showered in Champagne." (The People's Journal, 05/12/1959).
Bulk carrier for sugar from West Indies to Silvertown on Thames.
Sulzer diesel engine 7 cylinders (720x1250 mm), producing 6300 bhp, built by Sulzer bros, Winterthur, Switzerland.
