Hello Durango
Below are some particulars and history of the motor vessels BOSCOMBE DOWN and WORTHY DOWN and also example voyages of the vessels under those names and previous and later names as per various issues of Lloyd’s Shipping Index 1939-77. The other data are from various editions of Lloyd’s Register and Lloyd’s Confidential Index, and other sources at Lloyd’s.
If you go to
http://kommandobryggan.se/transatlantic/glimmaren.htm and
http://kommandobryggan.se/transatlantic/temnaren.htm, you will find images of both of these vessels as they were when owned by Transatlantic. Among the images are interior shots.
Hope that this is of interest.
Regards
Roger
BOSCOMBE DOWN
Particulars
Official number 302803
Signal letters GHWF
3361 tons gross, 1815 tons net, 6170 tons deadweight
Length overall 380 ft 8 in, breadth 51 ft 8 in, draught 23 ft 8.5 in
Twin screw
Two 6-cylinder Eriksbergs/B&W oil engines, total 4100 bhp
Service speed 14.2 knots
Accommodation for two first-class passengers when built
Classed with Lloyd’s Register
History
2.10.39 launched
11.39 completed by Eriksbergs, Gothenburg (ship number 294), for Rederi-A/B Transatlantic, Gothenburg, as GLIMMAREN
1961 sold to Merchants Manufacturing & Transportation Co Ltd, St Peter Port (manager Mann & Son (London) Ltd), 5 Whittington Avenue, London EC3), and renamed BOSCOMBE DOWN (? passenger accommodation discontinued)
1963 sold Benking Enterprises Ltd (manager Kie Hock Shipping (Hong Kong) Co Ltd, Hong Kong)
1965 renamed TONG SING
1968 transferred to Angora Enterprises Ltd, Hong Kong (same manager)
1970 transferred Tali Shipping Co Ltd SA, Panama (manager Kie Hock Shipping Co (Pte) Ltd, Singapore) (under Somali flag)
1971 management transferred to Kie Hock Shipping (1971) (Pte) Ltd
16.12.71 wrecked
Example voyages
As GLIMMAREN
WW2 Surveyed for Lloyd’s Register (LR) at Gothenburg in 11.39, 11.41, 1.43, 8.44
31.10.45 Sd New York, and 17.11 sd Gothenburg, for Stockholm, sd Malmo 19.11
6.48 LR survey at Srattle
28.10.48 sd Baltimore for Gothenburg
12.5.49 sd La Guaira for Buenaventura, ar 16.5
11.3.50 sd Baltimore for Gothenburg
2.52 LR survey at Gothenburg
5.11.53 sd Lulea for Philadelphia, ar Boston 4.12
18.3.57 sd Durban for Riga, ar 13.4
7.10.58 sd Beira for Durban
9.4.59 sd Copenhagen for Dar-es-Salaam, ar Gothenburg 10.4
14.1.60 sd Beira for Stockholm, ar Murviken 4.3
7.4.61 sd Gdynia for Colombo, ar Gothenburg 14.4
As BOSCOMBE DOWN
10.6.62 sd Stockholm for Santos, ar Santos Roads 14.7 and Santos 19.7
6.4.63 sd Porto Alegre for Hamburg
27.8.63 sd Santos for Hamburg
When owned by Benking Enterprises (still named BOSCOMBE DOWN)
20.1.64 SD Galle for Chittagong
6.10.64 sd Basrah for Colombo, ar 16.10
2.12.64 sd Colombo for Singapore Roads (renamed TONG SING following arrival)
As TONG SING
23.3.65 sd Penang for Bandar Shapur, ar 25.4
6.10.65 ar Karachi from Tientsin
6.2.66 sd Hong Kong for Singapore
10.9.66 ar Karachi from Whampoa
18.1.67 sd Hong Kong for Singapore
1.3.67 sd Karachi for Dammam, sd Basrah 8.4
When owned by Angora Enterprises Ltd
15.5.68 sd Khorramshahr for Singapore Roads, ar 29.5
6.12.68 sd Chittagong for Calcutta, ar roads 7.12
8.2.69 sd Wakayama for Hsinkang
12.11.69 sd Hong Kong for Whampoa
9.2.70 sd Rangoon for Singapore Roads
When owned by Tali Shipping (Somali flag)
11.8.70 sd Hong Kong for Singapore
3.11.70 sd Singapore Roads for Iwakuni
28.2.71 sd Singapore Roads for Shanghai
28.11.71 ar Singapore Roads from Shanghai
13.5.72 sd Hong Kong for Shanghai
30.10.72 sd Singapore Roads, on voyage Rangoon to China
11.1.73 sd Dar-es-Salaam for Aqaba, sd Port Sudan 16.2
16.12.74 Aground, on voyage Singapore to Tsamkong
“While en route, in ballast, from Singapore to Tsamkong where she was due to load a cargo of rice, the 35-year old Somali motor vessel Tong Sing was wrecked when she ran aground in the South China Sea seven miles east of Tung-Hai Tao in lat 21 00N long 110 42E on16 December 1974. The badly damaged vessel was eventually refloated, towed by Tsamkong and broken up” (Maritime Casualties 1963-1996, by Norman Hooke)
WORTHY DOWN
Particulars
Official number 302728
Signal letters GHSE
3361 tons gross, 1815 tons net, 6000 tons deadweight
Length overall 381 ft 1 in, breadth 51 ft 7 in, draught 23 ft 9 in
Twin screw
Two 6-cylinder Gotaverken oil engines, total 4200 bhp
Service speed 14.2 knots
Accommodation for two first-class passengers when built
Classed with Lloyd’s Register
History
14.1.39 launched by A/B Lindholmens Varv, Gothenburg (ship number 962)
3.39 completed by A/B Gotaverken, Gothenburg (ship number 532), for Rederi-A/B Transatlantic, Gothenburg, as TEMNAREN
1961 sold to Merchants Manufacturing & transportation Co Ltd, St Peter Port (manager Mann & Son (London) Ltd), 5 Whittington Avenue, London EC3), and renamed WORTHY DOWN (? passenger accommodation discontinued)
1963 Sold Benking Enterprises Ltd (manager Kie Hock Shipping (Hong Kong) Co Ltd, Hong Kong)
1964 renamed TONG HAI
1968 transferred to Good Fortune Enterprises Ltd, Hong Kong (same manager)
1970 transferred to Tali Shipping Co Ltd SA, Panama (manager Kie Hock Shipping Co (Pte) Ltd, Singapore) (under Somali flag)
1971 management transferred to Kie Hock Shipping (1971) (Pte) Ltd, Singapore
1978 transferred to Tali Shipping Co Ltd (same manager) renamed LYLIAN (Honduras flag)
20.8.78 breaking up commenced at Junk Bay, Hong Kong, by Lee Sing & Co Ltd
Example voyages
As TEMNAREN
28.3.39 sd Gothenburg for New York (maiden voyage)
WW2 LR surveys at Gothenburg 1.42, 10.44
12.11.45 sd Table Bay for Mozambique and Port Said
11.47 LR survey at Gothenburg
29.10.48 sd Guayaquil for Buenaventura
12.48 LR survey at Gustafsvik
22.5.49 sd Matadi for Luanda, sd Boma 26.5
21.2.50 sd Lobito for London, ar Duala 6.3
8.51 LR survey at Stockholm
5.52 LR survey at Gothenburg
7.53 LR survey at Gothenburg
28.9.53 sd Lobito for Gothenburg, ar Copenhagen 2.12 (had been aground, no details)
21.3.57 sd Lobito for Gothenburg
22.9.58 sd New York for Mobile, sd Havana 8.10
9.4.59 sd Greenock for Rotterdam, ar 11.4
17.2.60 sd Beira for Stockholm, sd Durban 26.2
1.4.61 sd Hamburg for Puerto la Cruz
As WORTHY DOWN
27.7.62 sd Porto Alegre for Copenhagen, ar Santos 31.7
7.4.63 sd New Orleans for Rotterdam, ar 6.5
23.8.63 sd Port Sudan for Rotterdam
When owned by Benking Enterprises Ltd/Kie Hock, still named WORTHY DOWN
23.1.64 sd Yokohama for Hong Kong, ar 10.2
16.10.64 sd Karachi for Khorramshahr, sd Kuwait 27.10
17.12.64 sd Kuwait for Singapore (renamed TONG HAI after arrival at Singapore)
As TONG HAI
8.4.65 sd Chittagong for Singapore, sd Visakapatnam 20.4
2.9.65 sd Zanzibar for Shanghai, ar Singapore Roads 21.9
20.2.66 sd Hong Kong for Whampoa
1.8.66 at Singapore for docking/repairs
4.1.67 sd Colombo for Singapore
12.5.67 sd Dubai for Kuwait, ar 14.5
30.4.68 sd Penang for Shanghai, sd Singapore 6.5
When owned by Good Fortune Enterprises Ltd, Hong Kong
4.12.68 sd Hong Kong for Singapore
12.2.69 sd Hong Kong for Shanghai
11.9.69 sd Port Swettenham for Osaka, ar 12.11
13.2.70 on voyage from Singapore Roads to Shanghai
When owned by Tali Shipping (Somali flag)
1.8.70 st Port Swettenham for Niigata, ar 14.8
2.11.70 sd Hong Kong for Singapore
12.3.71 sd Hong Kong, on voyage Shanghai to Singapore
24.11.71 at Bangkok (had been in collision, no details)
8.4.72 sd Aqaba for Singapore Roads, ar 30.4
26.1.73 sd Singapore Roads for Shanghai
29.8.77 sd Bangkok for Hong Kong, ar 3.9