AMBER PACIFIC

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Built by Doxford's North Sands Yard in 1969.

Renamed KOWLOON PEAK in 1983. Broken up at Pusan in 1986.

Tyne 1969

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Amber Pacific J.L.Thompson yard no 726
August Pacific J.L.Thompson yard no 725
Both for Pacific Bulk Carriers (Standard Charter Bank), both 47,000 dwt bulk carriers.
Similar ships by the Doxford Group:
Fernriver, Fernspring, Sheaf Tyne, August Pacific, Amber Pacific, Argonaut. G.M. Livanos (J.L.Thompson)
Roslagen, Mylla, Orotava (Sir James Laing)
All of these were Doxford 760J6, 13,300 BHP engines with the exception of Roslagen and it had a Gotaverken engine

Austin and Pickersgills built two similar ships about the same time, Happy Dragon and Sygna. These were built in two halves because they were too big to go around the bend in the River Wear at Deptford (Laings yard) and were joined in drydock on the Tyne. Sygna was wrecked off Australia and its hull was left where it foundered for a few (perhaps many) years. It would be likely that Pickersgills ships would be Sulzer engines and just as likely that they would be built at George Clarks. Both of the firms were at Southwick, one each side of the Alexander Bridge