Built in 1961 by Swan's

Renamed: 79 DAPHNEMAR

Broken up at Gadani Beach 1984

Hello, sorry to be negative in my first post, I am trying to be helpful, this isn't the Ilesha Palm. It's either the Ibadan Palm or the Ilorin Palm the four square(ish) ports on the main deck are the give away. The Ilesha, like the Ikeja, Lagos and Lobito Palms all have the streamlined openings.

Regards
Graham

Don't worry, Graham.

We all get things wrong from time to time and welcome the opportunity to correct things.

Tony and Tom's good natured banter about which Doxford Engine a particular ship had is a prime example.

Welcome to North East Maritime!

Good point Graham, never thought about that difference bewteen the 'I' Palms, here is ILORIN for comparison


and IKEJA to show the difference

Graham

I agree with you.

My log book shows that ILESHA PALM was in Tilbury Dock on 6/7/1969. However, I haved not marked it as being photographed. It would appear that my negatives have got mixed up somewhere.

Regards

Ilesha Palm. One of the twelve. Lovely looking traditional cargo ships. I think it was on one of the Snowbow videos that there was footage from the bridge showing the ships navigating the west African rivers. Quite an amazing bit of ship driving! Ilesha palm had a Swan hunter Doxford 670LBD4 engine, number 1984.

The ship on the video is the Ikeja Palm, sister to the Ilesha Palm. The ship was filmed for a production called "With General Cargo" and documented a trip to the coast I was very fortunate when I was young to do a voyage with my dad on the Ikeja Palm to West Africa and go up the creeks to Warri and Sapele. I even managed to gain my steering certificate allowing me to steer vessels between 500 and 50,000 tons. Wish I'd kept it up!