WILMINGTON
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date3 June 1969
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 384 5/12' x breadth 54 3/6' x depth 32 7/12'
Gross Tonnage: 5689 ton
Gross Tonnage: 5689 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002627
Keywords
Yard Number: 942
Official Number: 337979
Fate: WILMINGTON was scrapped as coal powered electric stations stopped operating: Laid up in the Tyne and then scrapped in Bruges in 1986 (Zeebrugge 17 May 1986).
Propulsion: Motor
Description: Bulk cargo vessel, 1 deck, forecastle 39', bridge deck 69', macinery aft, steel, welded construction.
Owners:
1969: Stephenson Clarke Shipping, London.
General History:
WILMINGTON was built for Stephenson Clarke Shipping by Hall Russell. The ship was named by Lady Ogilvie, wife of Sir Alec Ogilvie, deputy Chairman of Powell Duffryn (Stephenson Clarke was subsidiary of PD). Ship was named after a Sussex village and designed to carry all types of bulk cargo. To trade on Baltic and Continental seaboard, carrying a crew of 24.
WILMINGTON was a 3 hatch hold with no cranes or derricks, with the crew's quarters and bridge at the aft end of the ship.
Hall, Russell also built the SHOREHAM (1834GRT) in 1957 as well as the FERRING and the MALLING (2835GRT) in 1969-70 for the same company. The company's ships were easily spotted by a white band that goes around the ship on the bulwark tops and black funnel with a silver band.
WILMINGTON's main cargo was coal from the Tyne, Immingham and Newport to the electricity coal fired stations. WILMINGTON occasionally traded to the Mediterranean with grain from Ipswich to Ravenna and short trips to Venice to load maize for Hamburg.
Note:
2 SA 6 cylinder (500x1100 mm), 4200 bhp, engine by J. G. Kincaid of Greenock
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May 1863
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