Doxfords yard number 885, launched 11.06.1968 for Harrisons of Liverpool. Winterthur Sulzer 8 cylinder engine. Build cost £1,424,020
1971 Whilst discharging at Vera Cruz a sling split and a pipe fell, puncturing fuel oil tank. ship proceeded to Galveston for repair with the hatch open to prevent gas build up.
1973 Huskisson Dock, fire broke out no 3 hold.
1979 Dares Salaam to Avonmouth stern tube seal failed. shaft tunnel watertight door closed and ship made for Gibraltar for repair.
1981 sold for $3,000,000 renamed Cherry Orient.
1985 Broken up Chittagong
Details from Graeme Cubbins 'Harrisons of Liverpool' published by World ship Society and Ships in Focus, 2003. An outstanding book by any standards, outstanding research and photographs, cheap at double the price!

You on commission, Tom!!


(Actually its not featured in John's current Booklist.. No 54.)

I wish! Mr Clarkson would soon put a stop to it if I was! WSS society Hon Sec., you must have a copy, signed, with staff discount! Probably out of print now. Cubbin was ex Harrisons cadet, captain, and superintendent between 1940 and 1986 when he retired to look after the Company archives, and with Ships in Focus input , little wonder the book is so good. Do you have a copy or have you seen one? Some of the photographs are perfect. The double page inside front cover spread of Defender at Liverpool docks is probably one of the best ship photographs you could wish for. Four hundred A4 pages, its a mammoth read, and an important historical record. I think books written by those with direct involvement, and well within living memory of a company are some of the most valuable. Particularly interesting for Ex Sunderland shipbuilder given Doxfords twenty one Harrisons contracts, and the outstanding Craftsman, Doxfords contract built at Laings while Doxfords was being rebuilt. Expect with your experience in researching ship histories you will readily appreciate the work that went into it, even with unlimited access to Company records. If you haven't got a copy I hope you can get a one.
Tom

Agree, Tom. Its a splendid book!

Not one you would read from cover to cover, but one to did in and out as you need to.......

sorry wrong yard built at Pallion

Albert Weller views taken in Middlesbrough Dock circa September 1971: ... enlarged from above panorama: Ron

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

IMO: 6817687

Birkenhead - 5 August 1970: Ron M

I cannot fathom out how HISTORIAN shows as PEVERIL in the heading!

Its them little green men mucking about again...