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Halcyon The Great

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Contents

Introduction

Halcyon the Great was a tanker with a service life of just 13 years and was broken up after a period of being used as a storage vessel.


Basic Data

  • Type: Tanker
  • Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Court Line (Ship Management) Ltd. Managers London
  • Builders: A/B Gotaverken
  • Yard: Gothenberg
  • Country: Sweden
  • Yard number: 489
  • Registry: N/K
  • Official number: 341376
  • Signal letters: N/K
  • Call sign: N/K
  • Classification society: N/K
  • Gross tonnage: 113,453
  • Net tonnage: 90,579
  • Deadweight: N/K
  • Length: 1,049.73 ft
  • Breadth: 149.53 ft
  • Depth: 67.76 Ft
  • Draught: N/K
  • Engines: Two Stal Laval steam turbines, HP triple reductoin geared to LP triple reduction geared to screw shaft
  • Engine builders: A/B Gotaverken
  • Works: Gothernburg
  • Country: Sweden
  • Power: N/K
  • Propulsion: Single screw
  • Speed: 16
  • Capacity:N/K
  • Crew: N/K


Career Highlights

  • 19 Mar 1971: Launched
  • May 1971: Completed and placed on an 18 month charter to Shell Petroleum.
  • 1971: Sold to Transocean Tankers Services Inc. Monrovia, Liberia, - Managers Island Navigation Corp. Ltd. Hong Kong - and renamed Energy Prosperity
  • 1978: Became a storage ship at Teluk, Semangka
  • 1983: Laid up at Busan
  • 1984: Broken up by Hyundai Precision & Industry Co. Ltd. Ulsan, South Korea


Service History

No specific information is available other than as stated in Career Highlights.


External resources

  1. Miramar Ship Index: [1]
  2. Information extracted from Lloyds Registers
  3. Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021


Images

  1. From The Allen Collection: [2]

Main Contributors

  1. Basic information from John Powell and Clive Ketley
  2. Additional research and construction of entry by Benjidog


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