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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| BIRCHFIELD |
187140 |
GBR |
5280435 |
| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1956 |
02/02/1956 |
07/1956 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Coaster General Cargo
| Steel Motor Vessel |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd, Ardrossan |
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422 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 1265 grt / 611 nrt / 1151 dwt |
223.8 ft |
37.4 ft |
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15.0 ft |
| Engine builder |
George Clark & North Eastern Marine (Sunderland) Ltd., Sunderland |
| Engine detail |
| M7cyl, 1Screw, 10 knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Zillah Shipping Co. Ltd. - W.A.Savage Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1959 POINTER - 1975 TAURUS III - 1984 LARNACA TOWN - 1985 MINA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1958 Coast Lines Ltd., Liverpool
1965 Burns & Laird Lines Ltd., Glasgow
1970 Coast Lines (Services) Ltd., Liverpool
1971 Managers P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd.
1972 Belfast Steamship Co.Ltd., Belfast
1975 Managers P&O Ferries
1975 Isthmian Navigation Co.Ltd., Limassol
1984 Phalarope Shipping Ltd., Valletta
1984 Larnaca Project S. de R.L., Honduras |
| Vessel history |
1959 converted to trailer and container carrier |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1986 |
Broken Up 16/05/1986 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Broken up at Perama, arrived on above date. |
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At Goole, photo C.A.Hill
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Birchfield
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