DUN HUANG

DUN HUANG

Postby MadMaxLab » Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:00 pm

Built in 1967 by Doxford's

Renamed: 90 SKYBOWER

Broken up at Chittagong 1991

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Royal Group of Docks 20/2/1971
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby fitter » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:04 am

Dunhuang (yn 876, 1966),and its sister Jinsha (yn 877, 1967) were two cargo liners for China Ocean Shipping.The ships caused a stir at the time because the owners gave out Moa Tse Tungs Little Red Book to Doxford employees, had political banners strung from the ships during construction and held at least one workers party in Doxfords shipyard canteen. Both had George Clark Sulzer 7RD76 engines.
I have Jinsha as also being named EMEI but that may not be reliable.
These were almost a Doxford standard design and were nice looking ships
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby magoonigal » Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:10 pm

JIN SHA Shown as two words.

Became SKYRIVER in 1990 and was broken-up at Alang, arriving on the 18th March 1991.

Looking at the dates, this was probably for her final voyage.
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby fitter » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:48 am

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JINSHA OR JIN SHA

JIN SHA looks like two words in Chinese but one according to Doxfords!!
Thanks for the subsequent name, is it SKYRIVER or SKY RIVER or is JIN SHA just Chinese for SKY RIVER? :?
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby magoonigal » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:18 am

Actually your right Tom.

BUT it depends where you look.

Our best source of on-line information is a site called Mirimar and that works on information from Lloyds Registers.
At times its very frustrating because addittional "full Stops", "spaces" etc get added. Chinese and Indian names can be a problem as they seem to be written on the ship as one word, but are recorded as two words.

Just looked in 1974 Lloyds and "JINSHA" IS recorded as one word. Put JINSHA into Mirimar and its not found but put it in as two words and it finds it straight away.

Sometimes it can be really frustrating tracing a ship....... :? :?
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby fitter » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:56 pm

Maybe Doxfords and Lloyds are wrong, and maybe the most reliable interpreter is a local Chinese take away. Jin Sha seems to sound more Chinese than Jinsha. You take it to your local takeaway and I'll take it to mine, albeit ten miles away and see what we come up with :idea:

Wiki says: JINSHA = River of Golden Sands
JINSHA = Ancient Chinese archeological site
JIN SHA = Hotel ion Shanghai
JIN SHA = very attractive chinese female actress born 14.03.83

DUNHUANG = County level city in NW Gansu province, a major stop on the ancient Silk Road route, also know sometimes as "City of Sands

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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby Dennis Maccoy » Thu Nov 28, 2013 9:17 pm

Outfitting during October 1966.
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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby Humbersmith1 » Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:20 am

Gents,

Gold (or Golden Sand) is probably right for JIN SHA. See http://www.mandarintools.com/ (Chinese/English dictionary). As a general rule Chinese owned vessels under the Chinese flag have a space in between characters. Under the Panamanian flag it becomes one word.

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Re: DUN HUANG

Postby Tony Frost » Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:02 pm

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