TSMV Centaur
|
photo George Clark Built by John Brown and Co (Clydebank) Ltd. Launched in 1963, 8,262grt, 481 ft. Twin screw, engined by Burmeister & Wain of Copenhagen. 4,690 passengers of which 4,500 were sheep! Centaur replaced Charon and Gorgon on the Singapore to Freemantle run. In 1975 she was transfered to Eastern Fleets Ltd., Singapore. In 1998 transfered to Blue Funnel (S.E. Asia) Private Ltd. and withdrawn from service in 1981. Chartered to St Helena Shipping Co. Ltd. 1985 sold to China as Hai Long and in 1986 became Hai Da. Sadly she has gone now. Scrapped in 1995 at Guangdong Xinhui Shuangshui Shipbreaking and Steel Co. in the southern province of Guangdong, Southern China. |
|||||
|
George Clark describes the picture: Taken from outside my cabin on the Glengarry, I was the 7th engineer on that trip. I had just come off an all night harbour watch (4 am), so the picture was taken early morning, at Port Swettenham, now Klang, in Malaysia, probably January 1970. It was a beautiful morning not a breath of wind and such a comfortable temperature. A derrick winch was sited above my cabin so sleep during the day was difficult, I also seem to remember laying in bed looking at a maze of plumbing above me, I must have been below a toilet block.
|
|||||
Seen here nearing completion at John Brown's |
Centaur seen alongside at Singapore. Picture from Ron Turnbull |
||||
