QUICKTHORN

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QUICKTHORN

Postby TEESMAN » Mon Feb 05, 2018 10:51 am

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Photo Michael Green
QUICKTHORN outwards from Tees Dock 15.01.81
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby Patrick Hill » Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:12 pm

Inward on the Humber in mid 80's, taken by my late friend John Galtry.

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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby teesships » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:03 am

QUICKTHORN (6716766), Coe Metcalfe Sg Ltd. (from 1978), 1598gt,
completed Ailsa SB Co., Troon, 9-1967
1967 TANMERACK - 1973 QUICKTHORN - 1990 AMANECIDA - 1991 SIBA - 1998 NAHLA
BU Aliaga 14.7.02 [Huzur GS]

Arriving for Tees Dock (probably Potash Terminal) - 20 September 1982:
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby northeast » Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:09 am

Always recognisable with her mast arrangements, I remember that as QUICKTHORN she was one of the first to discharge at Hull without registered dock workers, shortly after the scheme ended in 1989.
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby TEESMAN » Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:17 pm

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04.07.84 Photo Michael Green
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13.07.86 Photo Michael Green
Two more views of QUICKTHORN on the Tees
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby TEESMAN » Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:38 pm

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As the NAHLA on the Bosphorus 06.05.01
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby creemaster » Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:03 pm

Built for a P & O service bringing timber (?) from Canada toEurope
Photo's of her on the web with derricks, looks quite the job with them
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Re: QUICKTHORN

Postby tidesman » Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:52 pm

QUICKTHORN (3) (1973 – 1978)
O.N. 334614. 1,598g. 869n. 2,442d. 280' 0" x 42' 5" x 16' 1".
6-cyl. 2 S.C.S.A. (500 x 700mm) Polar M66T type by British Polar Engines Ltd., Glasgow. 2,400bhp. 13 kts.
18.11.1966: Keel laid by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Ltd., Troon (Yard No. 524) for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd., London as TANMERACK.
9.5.1967: Launched for Charter Shipping Company Ltd., London.
1.9.1967: Completed.
1.10.1971: P and O Short Sea Shipping Ltd., appointed as managers.
3.1.1973: Sold to S. William Coe and Company Ltd., Liverpool, and renamed QUICKTHORN.
1978: Sold to Coe, Metcalf Shipping Ltd. (S. William Coe and Company Ltd., managers) Liverpool.
1984: Company ownership passed from the Booker Group to James Fisher and Sons Ltd., Barrow in Furness.
1990: Sold to Altona Maritime Ltd., (Alfa Shipping Company S. de R.L., managers), Malta, and renamed AMANECIDA.
1991: Sold to Tristar Maritime Company S.A., (Threemar Maritime Corp. S.A., managers), Honduras, and renamed SIBA.
1996: Sold to Bitar Jafouri and Co., (Bitar Trading and Transports (BTT), managers), Syria.
1998: Renamed NAHLA.
14.7.2002: Arrived at Aliaga for demolition by Huzur Gemi Sokum.
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