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Lamport & Holts' M.V. "Browning"
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Built: |
Austin & Pickersgill Ltd.,
Southwick, Sunderland to standard SD14 design, 1979 |
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IMO:: |
7614733 |
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Dimensions: |
472.44 x 65.62 x
29.03 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 9324
Net: 6151 Deadweight: 15,265 tonnes |
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Propulsion: |
4-Cylinder 2
S.C.S.A. Sulzer 4RND68M oil engine, 7,600 bhp at 150 rpm by Hawthorn,
Leslie (Engineers) Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne driving single screw |
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Type: |
General Cargo Ship
to SD14 design with capacity for 118 TEU |
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Launched: |
04/1979 as
Browning |
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Sold: |
01/01/1983 to China
Ocean Shipping Co., and renamed An Fu Jiang |
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Sold: |
01/12/1990 Safe Star
Fortunate Star Marine Ltd., Valletta, managers China Ocean Shipping Co. |
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Sold: |
01/03/1999 and
renamed Ocean Join |
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Sold: |
01/02/2004 and
renamed Ever Bright |
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Sold: |
01/11/2005 and
renamed Ever Access |
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Sold: |
and renamed
Dae San. Owners/Managers Korea Daesan Shipping
Company, North Korea |
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Reported: |
12/2012 hijacked by
Somali guards after the vessel was detained for dumping cement |
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Sister ships: |
Bronte (3) , Boswell
(3) & Belloc |
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Browning
passing under Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland ~ Photograph © Tony Frost |
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Browning
at Rio de Janeiro 1981 - Photograph © Kevin Brown |
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The Browning was of a
Standard Ship Design known as SD 14. One of four, of the
Bronte, Boswell and
Belloc class. All built by Austin Pickersgill 1979 to 1980
with a Four Cylinder Sulzer and single turbo-charger. ( It did look big.
) and conventional Sulzer fuel injection equipment. There were initially
a few little problems with vibration but it was soon resolved and
generally were very good ships for their purpose. Regrettably the trade
situation was falling away and they did not get a lot of service before
being laid-up in Liverpool and then sold, Belloc
in 1981 and the others in 1983.
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Browning at Rio de Janeiro 1981 - Photograph © Kevin Brown |
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I sailed in her from Glasgow on the day
Argentine forces invaded South Georgia, with a full cargo for Brazilian
ports & Buenos Aires, with the result she never went further south than
Rio Grande do Sol. It marked the downturn in trade for Lamport & Holts,
with the result of her being sold to the Chinese.
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Browning |
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The first Browning
(5,332 tons) was built in 1919 as War Marten,
but completed as Browning. She was torpedoed
in 1942 and blew up while carrying ammunition off Oran for operation
'Torch'.
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Updated:20/12/2012 |
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