by magoonigal » Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:24 am
Launched by Burntisland Ship Building on the 22nd March 1955 and completed on the 11th September 1955.
3,330 Gross. 4,640 Dwt. 9.5 kts.
Now in 1965 William Cory & Son Ltd set up a Company called Liquid Gas Tankers Ltd and in 1969 all the Cory Colliers were transfered to this Company.
CORBANK; CORBEACH; CORBRAE; CORBURN; CORCHESTER; CORSEA; CORSTAR and CORSTREAM.
CORSTREAM was sold to the Kieland Shipping Company Limited of Nicosia prior to December 1972 and renamed KYRAMARUKO. She was the odd one out as all the others were Motor Ships and she was Steam.
On the 2nd November 1972 she went aground on the Horns Reef while on a voyage from Gdansk to Esbjerg and although she was refloated later the same day she was found to have sustained a severe hull crack and bottom damage.
Kieland Shipping then sold her as a CTL to the West German shipbreaker Eckhardt & Co and she arrived at Hamburg on the 15th January 1973 in tow from Esbjerg.
So she was only with Kieland for a number of months and never made it into Mr Lloyds Big Red book under that name (Obviously would have been in the supplement.) so I cannot check if she was converted to a Gas Tanker, but I suspect that was doubtful, however I could be wrong.
She was only 17 years old and could perhaps have been converted OR are you getting mixed up with the LIQUID GAS TANKER'S, Company name which I must admit does seem to be a strange choice for a fleet of Colliers.....
I rest my case M'Lud.
As an aside the Four Bulk Oil Tankers in the fleet in December 1972, Pass of Glenclunie/Glenogle; Cordale and Cordene were transfered to Cory Maritime Ltd, which would have been a more appropriate Company name for the Colliers! and the other way round.
Paul Hood. + WSS Tyneside Branch Hon Sec.
) North East built some great steam engines, built like brick --- you know.