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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ARDUITY |
180905 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1946 |
17/01/1946 |
08/07/1946 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tanker Oil
| Steel Motor Vessel |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Grangemouth |
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474 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 959 grt / / |
201.2 |
34.1 ft |
14.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
Oil 2SA 4cyl (340 x 570mm), 1 screw, engine aft.
Engine No 589.
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
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London |
11/07/1946 |
| Other names |
| EMPIRE TEDSON as launched - 1969 BELA - ARIEX |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1946 F T Everard & Sons Ltd., Greenhithe.
09/1969 Felisberto Valente de Almeida, Lisbon
By 03/1980 unknown owners. |
| Vessel history |
Launched for the Ministry of Transport - Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd.
1956 Lengthened to 233.9ft, 1159grt.
1969 converted to a sand barge. |
| Remarks |
| As noted, the engine was supplied by British Polar Engines but was probably installed by Aitchison, Blair Ltd, Clydebank. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1980 |
Deleted |
| Disposal Detail |
| 03/1980 deleted from Lloyd's Register. |
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