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BALLYLORAN
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BALLYLORAN

Shipbuilder (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date24 September 1958
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 205 3/6' x breadth 33 5/6' x depth 14 3/6'
gross tonnage: 1092 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002561
About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 874
Subsequent Names: ALLA EL DEAN (1981); SIMONE (1982); SIMON (1984)

Fate: Broken up at Rotterdam 1985.

Propulsion: Motor
Description: Cargo vessel, 1 deck, poop deck 47', quarterdeck 132', bridge deck 16', forecastle 25', machinery aft.

Owners:
1958: John Kelly Ltd, Belfast.

Notes:
Launched 24th September 1958 by Mrs Mellonie, wife of a director of the ship owners, John Kelly Ltd. Belfast.
This was John Kelly's first motor vessel.
(Burntisland Group Journal, vol. 26, (February 1959), pp. 44-45)
6 cylinder diesel engine (340 x 570mm) producing 1005 bhp, by British Polar Engines, Glasgow.

Black and white photograph of the collier Ballyrush (902) at Hall Russell shipyard
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
12 September 1962
Black and white photograph of the collier Ballyrory (903) at Hall Russell
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
14 November 1962
ANNAGHMORE
John Lewis & Sons
1924
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
October 1883
ANNAGHER
John Lewis & Sons
1923
DIADEM
DUTHIE
June 1824
SHAKESPEARE
Nicol Reid & Co.
May 1825
MOUNTAINEER
Alexander HALL & Co.
1821
RADIANT
Alexander HALL & Co.
1823
Model of the motor yacht Taransay
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
24 June 1930