Halcyon Wave

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Introduction

Halcyon Wave was launched in 1959 and had a 28 year service life before being broken up in 1987. She had changed name and ownership between being launched and completion and was to change her name five more times during her life.

Basic Data

• Type: Tanker
• Registered owners,managers and operators: Naessholm Shipping Co. Ltd. Hamilton Bermuda
• Builders: Eriksberg Mekaniska Verkstad A/B
• Yard: Gothenberg
• Country: Sweden
• Yard number: 257
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 301100
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: GGHQ
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 16,492
• Net tonnage: 9,989
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 615.73 ft
• Breadth: 79.25 ft
• Depth: 33.27 ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: 9 Cylinder B&W oil engine
• Engine builders: Eriksberg Mekaniska Verkstad A/B
• Works: Gothenburg
• Country: Sweden
• Power: N/K
• Propulsion: Single screw
• Speed: 16 knots
• Capacity: N/K
• Crew: N/K

Career Highlights

• 1959: Laid down as Snestad
• 17 Dec 1959: Launched as Snestad for A.F. Claverness & Co A/S Norway
• Mar 1960: Completed as Naess Clansman for Naessholm Shipping Co. Ltd, Hamilton Bermuda
• 1967: Acquired by Court Line Ltd.—Court Line (Ship Management) Ltd. Managers– and renamed Halcyon Wave
• 1974: Sold to Narada Shipping Ltd., Monrovia, Liberia - Managers Marintico London and renamed North Atlantic Unity
• 1975: Renamed Narada and laid up at Avonmouth under arrest.
• 1977: Renamed Noufara and put up for sale by order of the Admiralty Marshal
• 1978: Sold to Chronos Steamship Corp. Piraeus, Greece - Managers Chronos Shipping Co. Ltd
• 1981: Sold to Obeid Mohamed Bahawi, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Managers Elhawi Shipping Co. Ltd. And renamed Noor Ba
• 1987: Moored at Jeddah as a storage vessel for Elhawi Shipping Co. Ltd.
• 28 Dec 1987: Delivered to be broken up at Gadani Beach Pakistan

Service History

Very little specific information is currently available apart from changes of owners and name.

A judgment was made against the representatives of the ship on 3 December 1968 - see External resource #4. The judgment relates to an appeal against a penalty of $1,000 dollars per head in respect of “alien members of the crew” who had not been granted Conditional Landing Privileges; four Chinese crew members had gone ashore in a lifeboat. The judgment reduced the penalty to $200 per head on the grounds that there had been five professional guards and a supervisor employed round the clock to prevent these people landing.

She was also laid up in Avonmouth in 1975 but the circumstances of this are not known.

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
4. District Director New York - Matter of M/V Halcyon Wave: [2]

Images

1. From The Allen Collection: [3]

Main Contributors

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