Hi, I am an author writing a novel with a young man voyaging on a cargo freighter. He embarks in June, 1966, on a vessel that's about a decade away from being sold for scrap. Old and seaworn.
I'm ideally looking for a real vessel that I can model my fictional one from, so that I will have...
ILSABE OLDENDORFF
Location: Stadersand, Elbe
Date: 1965
1951 completed by Luebecker Flender-Werke A.G., Luebeck
for Egon OLdendorff, Luebeck
2.619GRT, 3.460tdw, 1.700shp, 12kn
ex HERMANN SAUBER 1960
1969 lib. CHALLENGER S.
1975 gr.KORMORANOS
1978 gr.ARIS
1979 laid up Venice
1981 broken up Venice
AL HADA
Location: Kiel Canal
Date: Summer 1976
1948 completed by Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads A/B, Goeteborg
as TANCRED
for Wilhelm Wilhelmsen, Toensberg, Norway
6.133GRT, 9.740tdw, 8.100bhp B+W, 16kn
1971 no. SOL JEAN (Solstads)
1976 saud. AL HADA (Orri Navigation Lines SA, Saudi States Lines)
Benledi
Location: Hamburg
Date 1965/66
She is being turned around before berthing in the port of Hamburg
1965 completed by Charles Connell + Co. Ltd., Glasgow
for The Ben Line Steamers Ltd, Leith
11.758GRT, 13.785tdw, 20.700bhp Sulzer/Barclay Curle, 21,5kn
1972 it. Da Noli, Italia Line
1979 pa. T
Burgenstein
Location: Stadersand, Elbe
Date ca. 1966/67
1958 completed by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack
for Norddeutscher Lloyd A.G., Bremen
8.497GRT, 10.743tdw, 9.000bhp MAN/Bremer Vulkan, 17,5kn
3 of this type built.
Beautiful design in 1958
Hello,
this is the request for another identification.
The source is a postcard and I think, the company is the State company of Niger - according to the funnel.
But which ship is that?
Hi, that vessel looks for me like swedish build, probably swedish or norwegian owned.
The place - can this be Gothenburg.
Well, who knows exactly?
Thanks in advance
Had a great time as 2M on the ILRI running down the W. African coast. Sadly a company that folded too quickly.
Neptun built for Barthold Richter, Hamburg