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ILE DE LUMIERE

Post by shipstamps » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:30 pm

Built as a cargo vessel under yard no CO451 by the Dutch yard of L.Smit & Zoon’s Scheeps-en-Werktuigbouw N.V. at Kinderdijk, for the French owner Comptoire General de Transports at Marseille.
02 April 1962, launched under the name DANIELLE V.
Tonnage 963 gross, 456 net, dim. 87.3 x 11.9 x 4.2m. (draught). Length between pp 79.4m.
Powered by a Smit-Bolnes diesel engine, 2.380 hp., speed 14.8 knots.
11 July 1962 trials, handed over to owners the next day.

Used in the Mediterranean trade.
1968 Sold to Cia Nav. Magdalena S.A., Monrovia and renamed MAGDALENA.
1974 Sold to Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens (C.C.C.) at Noumea, renamed in ILE DE LUMIERE (Island of light.)

21 March 1975 she arrived for the first time in Onehunga on her first voyage in a regular service between Sydney-Lord Howe-Norfolk-Auckland and Noumea.
14 June 1977 a spare crankshaft in the hold broke loose, on a voyage from Norfolk Island to Onehunga. A watertight door in the hull was damaged allowing water to enter when she rolled in a heavy seas. Later the same day she arrived at Onehunga.
25 January 1978 she arrived at Whangarei for repairs to a leak in the hold. She was on a voyage from Noumea to Tauranga at the time and was delayed 2 days for repairs, which time was saved by discharging in Auckland and omitting Tauranga.
1978 Transferred to Cie de Navigation Hebrido-Caledonienne, Noumea. Not renamed.
April 1979 was she chartered by the French organization Comite un Bateau Pour le Vietnam, for use in succoring Vietnamese boat people.
Refitted at Noumea during a 8 day stay in March 1979. Her holds and decks were fitted out with 110 beds and 4 operating theatres. She arrived at Singapore on 14 April.
Her first three months in her new role she spent at anchor off the island of Pulau Bidong, 200 miles Northeast of Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia, treating of the some 40.000 Vietnamese refugees there.
She then sailed around to the South China Sea picking up refugees from small boats they were adrift in.
Many were overcrowded, without fuel or food and frequently plundered by Thai’s pirates.
In 5 days the ILE DE LUMIERE rescued up 847 of these unfortunate people. She then embarked 1.000 refugees from Pulau Bidong Island and then sailed for France on 2 July 1979.
Thereafter she was stationed at Natunas in the South China Sea and worked under United Nations control, supplying much needed treatment.
When larger and more modern German and Norwegian hospital ships arrived she became redundant, and the committee then sent her to Kampuchea, were she ferried food supplies to the direction of the Red Cross.
During this operation she became the first of the international fleet to travel up the Mekong River since it was reopened to shipping.
After completion of 9 months arduous work for the committee she reverted to her old role as a cargo carrier from New Zealand to the Pacific Islands. She arrived at Onehunga on 9 March 1980 from Norfolk Island once again chartered to Sofrana Unilines of New Caledonia.
1986 Sold to Clarens Nav. Co. Ltd., Tonga, renamed LUPE.
Used in a new service between New South Wales ports and Papua New Guinea. However this appears to have been a short lived venture, as she arrived at Nukualofa, Tonga on 8 December 1986 from Port Aima, and is reported to have been renamed SEINI, thereafter she was chartered by the Warner Pacific Line.
She arrived at Auckland on 27 July 1987, her port of registry Nukualofa, on 10 August she left for Tarakohe to load a cargo of cement for Tonga.
On 14 August during loading of the cement one of the derricks collapsed and in falling brought down another one. A mobile crane was brought in to complete loading.
She was regular sailing with cement between Tarakohne and Nikualofa.
10 November 1987 there was an other mishap with her loading gear when loading a cargo of timber at Suva for Yamba, New South Wales more cargo gear collapsed, resulting in the death of two longshoreman and serious injuries to another.
1988 Sold to Hwann Zen Enterprise Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung, Taiwan. During her voyage to the breakers she towed the TASSI, and both ships arrived at Kaohsiung on 25 April 1988.
04 May 1988 breaking up work commenced.

Norfolk Island 1990 70c sg 488, scott 484.

Partly copied from Log Book Volume 23 page 17/19 and written by P.J.Leahy. Marine News.
Blauwe Wimpel 1962 page 168 and 259.

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Re: ILE DE LUMIERE

Post by Arturo » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:14 pm

She was built as Danielle V for Comptoir General de Transport, Marseilles. Cia. Nav. Magdalena, Monrovia, purchased her in 1968 and renamed her Magdalena. She was sold to the Noumea-based French firm Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens (CCC) in 1974 and renamed Ile De Lumiere.

She was Norfolk Island’s principal carrier from 1975 to 1986, running on the Noumea-Sydney-Lord Howe-Norfolk-Auckland-Noumea service.

In 1979 she was chartered by a French humanitarian association fort he rescue of boat people fleeing Vietnam. She was sold in Jun 1986 to a Vanuatu company and renamed. She was sold again in 1988 to Clarens Nav.Co. Ltd., Tonga and renamed Lupe.

Source: Various web sites.
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