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Sunday, January 4, 1959 @ 0100
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
BRITISH TENACITY (1939-1959 Oil products tanker 466 feet long of B.P. Tanker Company, London : Scrapped 12 January 1959) Own Page

Tanker BRITISH TENACITY and collier MINSTER collide in the Thames Estuary near Shoeburyness

Ship's locationThames Estuary, England, near ShoeburynessPort of RegistryLondon (England, UK)
Deadweght Tonnage12,254

 

   Two British ships, the tanker BRITISH TENACITY (8,439 gross tons) and the coastal collier MINSTER (3,194) gross tons  collided in the Thames Estuary near Shoeburyness.

   BRITISH TENACITY, owned by B.P. Tanker Company of London was bound for the oil terminal at Isle of Grain with a cargo of oil, and she was towed to Sheerness buoys for inspection.

   MINSTER, owned by Stephenson Clarke Ltd. of London made her way upriver to Gravesend.

   It was a sad end to the life of BRITISH TENACITY as she had been built in 1939 and came through WW2 without any damage and, after discharging her cargo of oil, she was sold for demolition to Hughes, Bolckow Shipbreakers at Blyth, Northumberland, England, arriving at Blyth on 12th January.