Ron Stringer has kindly supplied the following details of LOCHWOOD,s voyages and particulars.
LOCHWOOD
Owner : Joseph Constantine Steamship Line, Middlesbrough
Manager : Joseph Constantine Steamship Line, Middlesbrough
Builder : Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Burntisland
Built : December, 1949
Registered : Glasgow
Length : 287’ 00”
Beam : 41’ 09”
Draught : 17’ 08”
Tonnage : 1,689.23 gross, 851.84 net
Official No. : 182138
Radio Call : GDKC
Engines : 1 x 8-cylinder oil, single screw
H.P. : 129
Speed : 12 knots
Fuel : Oil
Passengers : 12
Sister Ships : Gartwood
Fate : 1963. Sold to Atlantska Plovidba, Yugoslavia & renamed “Lapad”
1970. Transferred to Mediterranska Plovidba, Yugoslavia, same name.
1971. Sold to shipbreakers at Split 27 April 1971.
15-Mar-61 Sailed from Dublin for Glasgow. Master Hutchinson
16-Mar-61 Arrived Glasgow from Dublin to load cargo (general cargo, including bonded spirits).
19-Mar-61 Sailed Glasgow for Port Talbot.
21-Mar-61 Arrived Port Talbot and loaded general cargo, including many ingots of brass and other alloys for Genoa.
21-Mar-61 Sailed from Port Talbot for Newport.
22-Mar-61 Arrived Newport to load more cargo, including more ingots.
22-Mar-61 Sailed from Newport for Mediterranean (Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Salerno, Palermo, Messina, Tunis) with mixed cargo and 12 passengers. |