50 YEARS AGO TODAY!
As MARE JADA (6729995), West Germany, 476gt, completed Westerbroek 12-1967
1967 MARE JADA - 1973 LONDONER - 1981 CAROL - foundered 48.13N/5.21W 24.6.85 [Liverpool-Pasajes, scrap iron]
Liverpool - 6 August 1970:
However, the Miramar history shown above does not give her full story!
MN 6/72: sank in the Gironde estuary off Verdon 13/4/72 while trying to reach Bordeaux after developing leaks on a voyage from Rotterdam to Lisbon. One member of her crew was lost. Entry marked as a total loss.
MN 10/72:reported 28/8/72 to have been raised by floating sheerlegs. Work was in progress 24/8/72.
MN 11/72: wreck sold to French shipbreakers.
Somehow, she survived and subsequently became quite well known to us as, first, LONDONER:
Middlesbrough Dock - 8 December 1975:
Hartlepool - 29 August 1976:
Sunderland - 20 September 1981:
... then, later, CAROL:
Sunderland - 26 February 1984:
Ron M