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 Post subject: shipping companies
PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:23 pm 
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It is amazing the amount of shipping companies there was that sailed under the Red Duster before the rapid decline began,I sailed with quite a few of them myself, there is one ship I sailed on and for the life of me I can't recall who owned her, it was a tanker named Cerinthus and I think she had a buff funnel with the letters HSC painted on it, I don't know why this lapse of memory as she was one of the worst ships that I sailed on and everyone was glad to be paid off. stan.


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 Post subject: Re: shipping companies
PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:58 pm 
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yep! Everard's have gone.

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 Post subject: Re: shipping companies
PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:21 pm 
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Thanks Tom, definately the Hadley steamship co, but the Cerinthus I sailed on was a tanker. stan


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 Post subject: Re: shipping companies
PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:37 pm 
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stanmass wrote:
Thanks Tom, definately the Hadley steamship co, but the Cerinthus I sailed on was a tanker. stan


Stan I recall going aboard a tanker with buff funnel in Port Hedland, she was flying the red duster and I went aboard to see if I knew anyone and I did, a lad named John Griffin, we had sailed together in the early 50's on the Esso Hull. I could never remember see a tanker with bluff funnel before and I have no idea which company it was?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:51 am 
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is this one it?
Cerinthus
Helderline Shell Tanker 'Cerinthus'

* Name: Cerinthus
* Imo number: 5067493
* Year of construction: 1954
* Discarded in: 1976
* Status: Scrapped
* Class: C
* Tonnage: 19.349
* Yard: Harland & Wolff
* Construction number: 1470
* Flag: GB Great Britain
* Callsign: G...
* Owner: Shell Tankers U.K.
* Relations:
o Clymene
* Extra information: In charter from Hadley Shipping Co. 23.7.1976 scrapped Faslane



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:11 am 
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Checking through my Discharge Book, Cerinthus London, OFF. No. 186145, B.H.P. 7500, NRT.7148.75. GRT. 12174.41. that photo does look similar Tom, I signed on on the 16 -11- 1963, in Tilbury and signed off on the 11 - 01 - 1964, also in Tilbury, it was a voyage to Curacoa and back so it must have had something to do with Shell. I don't remember how I came to join her in Tilbury as I was on the Liverpool pool, it must have been a Shanghai job. stan.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:17 pm 
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CLICK HERE for pictures of Cerinthus guaranteed to be the right one. there are a few pics and a colored one of her in Dry Dock, maybe her day of demise



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:50 pm 
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Thanks Tom, the coloured photo of the dry dock scene is definately the one I sailed on. stan


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