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SAGA

8,554 grt; 1,950 dwt; 408 passengers; 100 cars.
Operator: Rederi A/B Svenska Lloyd (Swedish Lloyd), Gothenburg, Sweden. Flag: Swedish.
Built 1966 by Lindholmens Varv AB, Gothenburg, Sweden. Yard no 1093. LR/IMO no: 6608098.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 4 x six-cylinder, four-stroke Lindholmens-Pielstick 6PC2-2L400 developing 10,080 bhp (total) at 520 rpm. Speed: 18 knots
Built for Stockholms Rederi Ab Svea, Stockholm as SVEA (Swedish flag) for service Gothenburg-Hull.
1968-sold to Rederi Ab Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg, Sweden, for delivery 1969.
1969-rebuilt at Burmeister & Wain shipyard, Copenhagen and renamed HISPANIA for service Southampton-Bilbao.
1970-to Tilbury-Gothenburg service.
1972-renamed SAGA
1977-laid up in Gothenburg.
1978-sold to Minoan Lines Shipping SA, Heraklion, Greece, renamed KNOSSOS
1988-sold to Ferro Ferryboat & RoRo Transport Co, Belize City, Belize, renamed CAPTAIN ZAMAN II (for service Istanbul-Odessa).
2003-sold to Blue Line International Inc, Panama, renamed ANCONA for service Ancona-Split.
2011-beached by breake3rs at Alang, India 12/1.
Photo: departing Tilbury for Gothenburg circa 1977.
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Hi Bobs are you sure that it is the London river makes me think it is the river Humber what with that fuel tanker in the fore ground that is registered in Hull on the stern sam2182sw
 
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It is Tilbury. The tall building is part of Tilbury Grain Terminal.
 
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Think you can see a portainer crane on berth 39 Tilbury (OCL)?
 
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If my memory serves me right, the Harker's (or ex-Harker's), Hull-registered bunker barge that hung out in the Thames at that time was TYNEDALE H
 
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She was not the "Saga" as mentioned but the "Svea" of 1966. She was the only one of the 3 sisters build with funnel fins. She was broken up lately as "Ancona" from Bleu Line in Alang / India. See http://www.faktaomfartyg.nu/svea_1966.htm. Regret the pictures are still missing on this site.

Best regards, Adrian - Middelburg / Holland
 
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Thanks, Adrian,
You are quite right. I had the wrong ship. Details have now been amended to those of the second SAGA.
Bob
 
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Well spotted, Adrian, so the photo must be 1972 and later.
Rgds, Manfred
 
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I think the date was 1977 because I very rarely used black/white film but, according to my records, did do so in March that year.
 
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Interestingly both the first sisters had many different owners after the closure of the Gothenburg-England and England-Spain lines - and ended up together in Minoan Lines fleet as the FAISTOS (FESTOS) and the KNOSSOS and served the Piraeus-Heraklion line and Greece.Italy lines for quite many years. The only one still impressingly in service is the former PATRICIA, the last third and a bit modified sister, in the Far East. In 1979 the new owner Stena Line higthened her former container-cargo deck in Newcastle to a full hight trailer deck which gave her a bit bumpy lines.
 

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