IRISH OAK

Graham the pipe · Jan 24, 2019

[COLOR="Navy"]Await your 'comment' Mike K.[/COLOR]

vegaskip · Jan 24, 2019

Excellent drawings, all in their elements
Jim

capkelly · Jan 24, 2019

My first ISL ship as 3/O after ED's, North Atlantic in winter a big change from West Africa. Very good accomodation as the Passenger cabins were used by the junior officers. Good sea ship, needed to be on the Canada run.

nickwilson89 · Jan 24, 2019

My memory may be slipping after the passage of 66 years but I seem to remember seeing the Irish Oak at the fitting out dock at Wm. Gray's West Hartlepool yard in October 1953. Am I right? I cannot find her building details to check for myself.

Nick

capkelly · Jan 24, 2019

Nick, That would have been the "Irish Elm" delivered by Greys in December 1953. The Oak was built by Readheads of South Shields as a steamship in 1949 and re-engined with a Doxford oil engine by Hawthorn Leslie in 1959, increasing speed from 12 to 14 knots. I joined in October '62. Greys went on to build Larch '56, Maple & Alder '57, Ash '58 and Sycamore in '61 which was the last ship built by Greys.

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