BENEFACTOR

BENEFACTOR

Postby MadMaxLab » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:33 pm

Launched in 1970 by Doxford's as the ION.

Renamed BENEFACTOR 1970; SOUTHERN LADY 1982; LADY 1987; TONG SHUN 1991.

Broken up at Alang 1998

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BENEFACTOR

Postby Tony Frost » Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:39 pm

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Launched as ION
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Re: BENEFACTOR

Postby fitter » Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:22 pm

Yard number 894, Launched as ION for Greeks and bought by Harrisons for £2,735,178 whilst fitting out. Graeme Cubbins records an incident when, in 1974, the ship struck and underwater obstruction whilst turning in Walvis Bay that resulted in the rudder stock being twisted 36 degrees to port. He remarks that subsequent surveys with inadequate equipment in inclement conditions failed to find evidence of any obstruction and a case against South African Railways and Harbours, in South Africa was inconclusive. In 1976 it collided with a fishing vessel in the English Channel and in 1979 it collided with the breakwater while entering Madras due to steering gear failure. Benefactor was variously chartered until being sold in 1982 and renamed Southern Lady. In 1987 it was sold again and renamed Lady. 1991 saw another sale when it became Tong Shun before being scrapped at Alang in 1998.
Yard number 896 (Benefactor) was delivered to Lyras and Fafalios as ION
Both had George Clark Sulzer engines. Of the last thirty three ships built after 1965 at Doxfords before the yard was closed for modernisation in 1973, only fourteen were Doxford engined, ending a period of 45 years (1920 to 1965) when almost every Doxford built ship had a Doxford engine. Even many of their steam ships (after their first motor ship, Yngaren in 1920 ), were Doxfords own triple expansion engines. The new yard fared little better. Excluding the ill fated ferries contracts shared with A&P, and the eleven Doxford contracts built at Laings, of the twenty three ships built in the new yard, only the eleven Bank Line ships were Doxford engined.
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Re: BENEFACTOR

Postby teesships » Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:34 pm

Albert Weller slides taken in Tees Dock circa May 1979:
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