ANRO TEMASEK

Built as a ro-ro cargo ship under yard No 1267 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at Kobe, Japan for Neptune Beta Lines, Singapore.
August 1977 launched as the ANRO TEMASEK.
Tonnage 13,129 grt, 5,683 nrt, 16,657 dwt. Dim. 181.77 x 27.51 x 16.77m, length bpp 168.03m, draught 9.02m.
Powered by one 9-cyl diesel engine, 18,990 bhp, speed 15 knots.
March 1974 completed.

Used in the liner service between Singapore and Australia.
1981 Sold to GATX Leasing (Pacific) Ltd., Singapore. Managed by Neptune Orient Lines. Lengthened: tonnage 16,063 grt, 22,319 dwt., length 212.9m. bpp.199.2m
Container capacity increased with 100 units.
1999 Renamed by owners in APL LOTUS.
2000 Sold to unspecified owners in Panama and reamed CAPE.
Arrived Bombay, India 20 September 2000 for scrapping.

Photo of the ships you can find on http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1043

Singapore 1978 50c sg337, scott310

Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Marine News. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1977.

NEPTUNE ARIES

Built as a tanker under yard No 201 by the A/S Naksov Skibs yard at Naksov. Denmark for the Neptune-Orient Lines Ltd., Singapore.
22 August 1973 launched as the NEPTUNE ARIES.
Tonnage 16,445 grt, 10,694 nrt, 26,909 dwt., dim. 170.7 x 24.82 x 13.57m., length bpp. 163.38m. draught 10.42m.
Powered by one 7-cyl. B&W diesel engine, 9,400 bhp, one shaft, speed 15 knots.
March 1974 completed.

1983 Sold to Hiap Hin Shipping & Trading Co. (Pte) Ltd., Singapore, renamed OCEAN TRADER.
2003 Sold by Dong Nang Tankers (Pte.) Ltd., Singapore to Bangladesh breakers.
01 June 2003. arrived Chittagong

Singapore 1978 35c sg336, scott309.

Source: Marine News. Watercraft Philately. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz

NEPTUNE SPINEL

Built as a Freedom type cargo vessel under yard No 2600 by Ishikawajima-Harima Industries, Aioi, Japan for the Greek owner Tatmas Maritimes S.A.
08 April 1977 keel laid down
20 June 1977 launched as the MILOS ISLAND.
Tonnage 8,738 grt, 5,903 nrt, 14,967 dwt, dim. 143.4 x 19.8 x 12.4m., draught 9.1m., length bpp. 134.0m.
Powered by one 14-cyl. V-type Pielstick diesel, hp?, one shaft, speed 13.5 knots.
04 April 1978 completed and delivered under the name NEPTUNE SPINEL owned by Neptune Gamma (Pte) Ltd. Orient-Neptune Line, Singapore.

1993 Sold to Laemthong International Lines (S) Pte. Ltd., Singapore and renamed LAEMTHONG PRIDE.
1996 Transferred to Laemthong International Lines, Bangkok, Thailand not renamed.
2012 Detained in Paranaguá, Brazil.
Sold to Mumbai, India for demolition, where she arrived in November 2012.
Given by http://www.equasis.org that she was broken up since 03 March 2013.

Singapore 1978 10c sg335, scott308.

Source: Navicula. Marine News. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz

KILINSKI

Built as a Victory ship type VC2-S-AP3 under yard No V7 by the California Shipbuilding Corp., Terminal Island, Los Angeles for the US Maritime Administration.
26 January 1944 keel laid down.
27 March 1944 launched as the MEXICO VICTORY.
Tonnage 7,612 gross, 4,564 nrt, 10,750 dwt. dim. 138.76 x 18.9 x 8.7m. (draught).
Powered by 2 Westinghouse Electric geared steam turbine 8,400 hp, one shaft speed 16.5 knots.
Crew 51, during war service 82.
19 May 1944 completed.

After delivery managed by Luckenbach SS Co. for the US Maritime Administration, was allocated to the United States Army Transport as an Army transport.
1947 Returned to the US Maritime Administration and laid up at Suisun Bay, California.
1947 Sold to the Gdynia-America Shipping Lines Ltd, Poland, renamed KILINSKI named after Jan Kilinski (1760-1890)
Mostly used in the liner service from Poland to the Far East.
1951 Transferred to Polish Ocean Line
At the end of the Indochina War and according to the Geneva Treaty, Vietnam was divided into two parts, the Vietminh took control over the northern part and the national government kept the power in the south.
In the agreement was given that the communist guerrilla units which had been active in the south have to been withdrawn from the south. About 100.000 soldiers and civilians and equipment had to be moved to the north.
Ho Chi Minh’s government was not able to organise this and asked help from the Soviet Union, the Soviets did not have any ship available and she chartered the KILINSKI which already operated in that waters.
She was chartered for four months by Sovfracht, with a possibility for prolongation.
The KILINSKI underway to Canton was after arrival and discharging of her cargo refitted in a troop transport to carry about 4000 people.
October 1954 in service as a troop transport, the French Navy were responsible to transport the soldiers from shore to the KILINSKI in the appointed zones on the coast of South Vietnam.
About between 3000 to 4000 people and there equipment were transported every trip, under the soldiers were many wounded.
The embarkation of the people in the south was carried out by the French Navy with landing craft, what was going easily, but of the 26 voyages the KILINSKI made only one cruise the troops were disembarked in Haiphong while the other disembarkations took place on the open roads in small fishing boats and the also a motor lifeboat from the KILINSKI was used.
July 1955 she finished her charter and together with a Russian ship the STAVROPOL the two ships transported 85,000 mainly troops, 3,500 pieces of different military equipment, 250 ton ammunition.

.1972 Laid up at Haiphong, Vietnam.
1973 Sold to Poul Christensen, Denmark, renamed LIN, registered at Nakskov, Denmark.
Her only voyage under the name LIN was from Haiphong to Taiwan where she arrived on 30 June 1973. She was sold to Chin Ho Faa Steel Co for breaking up.

Poland 1956 5g sg962, scott719.

Source: Log Book. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz info received from Mr. Gennadiy Sitnikov.

GUENDOLEN

GUENDOLEN: Built as a gunboat by G. Rennie & Co, Greenwich near London for the British Central Africa Administration in 1897.
Displacement 340 tons, dim. 136 x 24ft.
Twin screws, speed 10-12 knots.
Armament 2 - 6pdr. Hotchkiss guns forward and 1 – 3pdr. aft.

1899 Shipped out for assembly at Port Johnston.
May 1899 she made her maiden voyage on Lake Malawi with on board the Commissioner for the Protectorate on board.
Thereafter she took over the patrol duties on the lake from the ADVENTURE and PIONEER.
August 1914 she put out of action the only German gunboat on the lake the HERMANN VON WISSMANN, which was at that time beached and under repair. The news of this action reached the U.K. and was headlines in the news papers.
Till 1940 was she in government service.
1940 Transferred to the Nyasaland Railways.
1944 Scrapped at Fort Johnston when the hull was found to be unserviceable.
Various relics from the GUENDOLEN you can find in a mock-up bridge of the ship in the Lake Malawi Museum.
One of the Hotchkiss guns is mounted in front of the Vipya Memorial near the clock tower in Mangochi.

Malawi 1967 3s sg280, scott?

Source: Lake Malawi Steamers by P.A. Cole-King.

CZECH reefer vessel.

Built as a fruit carrier under yard No 477 by Götaverken at Gothenburg, Sweden for Skibs A/S Wenoka, Oslo, Norway.
30 October 1933 launched as the CALIFORNIA EXPRESS.
Tonnage 3,649 gross, 2,219 net, 3,150 dwt. Dim. 107.22 x 14.4m., length bpp. 101.9m.
Powered by two oil engines, manufactured by Gotaverken, 4,200 shp, twin screws, speed 16 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
January 1934 delivered to owners.

After delivery managed by Skibs-A/S Fruit Express Line and used in the service from the Caribbean to the U.K./France and west coast of U.S.
When World War broke out her voyages are given on this web-site http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/c ... press.html

After the war again used in the banana trade from the Caribbean to Europe.
1949 Sold to Polish British S.S. Co, Poland and renamed in CZECH.
1951 Transferred to the Polish Ocean Lines, Poland.
07 March 1953 she rescued 62 survivors from the Egyptian Navy minesweeper SOLLUM which foundered in a storm off Alexandria.
21 September 1961 collided with the Spanish ship PLUS ULTRA.
March 1965 sold for scrap and broken up in July 1965 at Gdansk.

Poland 1953 1.35Zl sg815, scott581.

Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1934. The URL given above and more sites on the Internet.

STADT LUZERN paddle steamer 1873

The side paddle steamer STADT LUZERN was the first steamboat on Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) in Switzerland.
Built on a makeshift yard of Escher Wyss AG, near Froschenburg for the Dampfschiffahrtgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee, later this company was renamed after one of the founders Knorrische Dampfschiff Gesellschaft.
1836 Keel laid down.
29 July 1837 launched as the STADT LUZERN.
Tonnage 115 dwt in empty condition, dim. 37.5 x 5.1 x 2.44m. draught 1.14m empty
Powered by two 1-cyl.balancier steam engines manufactured in Manchester U.K., 40 nhp, speed 9.77 km/h.
Passengers 300, crew 6.
A flush-decked ship which could carry 10 tons cargo.

20 September 1837 made her maiden voyage from Luzern to Flüelen; she made this passage in three hours.
1838 Was she fitted out with a mast and sails, and her funnel lengthened, the mast and sails were around 1849 removed while there was no need for was
1840/41 The boiler strengthened, 1849 rebuild.
1872 Refitted in a cargo vessel and her boiler renewed.
May 1881 out of service and her steam engine, boiler and paddlewheels removed, where after she was used as a towing barge.
1888 Fitted out with a new 2-cyl.compound steam engine which drove a screw.
Then used as a coal bunker boat for the steamships on the lake.
1924 Fitted out with an oil-engine.
When the coal steamers were converted in oil fired steam ships there was not any need for coal, and the STADT LUZERN was in 1963 rebuilt in bilge water collecting vessel and renamed BIEBO.
Till 2005 in use as a bilge water collecting craft.
2009 Taken out of service.
2013 Most probably still around but can not find anything on her.

Switzerland 1986 45c sg1108, scott?

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadt_Luzern_(1837). Navicula.
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Built at Blackwall near London for R.Green.
1837 Launched under the name MADAGASCAR.
Tonnage 835 tons.

Green ships were used in the U.K to India run, and I believe the MADAGASCAR was also used in this service after she was built.
She was know for her speed, and on one occasion she ran from the Cape to the English Channel in 43 days.

When gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, Green was sending his ships to Australia, and the MADAGASCAR was one of this ships. Under command of Capt. Fortescue Harold she was very popular with passengers on this run.

When in August 1853 at Hobson Bay ready to sail with her accommodation full with passengers and 68.390 ounces of gold dust on board, she was boarded by Melbourne detectives who arrested several passengers in connection with the McIvor Gold Escort Robbery. The gold was stolen on 20 July when transported to Kyneton by that company and guarded by 6 troopers, where it would meet the Government escort for Melbourne. The transport was attacked by bushrangers and about £ 8.000 stolen.
During the attack three troopers were wounded and the driver of the transport died later on his wounds.
Subsequent investigation delayed the MADAGASCAR sailing for about a month, but at least the anchor was heaved in and she set sail for home via Cape Horn. The only thing what is known on this voyage, that the intentions of the Captain were to steer SE to round the South of New Zealand then into the Roaring Forties, to take her around Cape Horn then up the South Atlantic to home.

When early 1854 the ship had not arrived at England, family of the passengers became uneasy, then a rumour appeared that she was at Rio de Janeiro in leaking condition, but it was unfounded. Then that she was captured by a gang who booked passage on her.
July 1854 she was declared official lost with more as 200 persons on board.

Years afterwards a woman dying in New Zealand told a clergyman her story of the ships fate. Traveling with a woman as a child nurse, she told the clergyman that in the South Atlantic on board the MADAGASCAR some of the crew and passengers mutinied, killing the officers and other members of the crew. The passengers were locked down below, after they took two boats and the gold and some young female passengers and set the MADAGASCAR on fire when they left the vessel.

One boat reached the coast of Brazil, but when nearing the beach the boat capsized in the surf and the gold was lost. When on shore the survivors were struck by yellow fewer, and only two men and the nurse reached civilization. Of the story is true nobody knows, I could not find any confirmation in one of my books.
And so till today we are not sure what happened with the crew, passengers and bullion of the MADAGASCAR.

Belize 1981 25c sg672, scott 610
Grenadines of Grenada 1998 75c sg 2532
Guyana 1989 $1530 sg2699, scott 2268g

Source: The Blackwall Frigates by Basil Lubbock. The Australian Run by Jack Loney and Peter Stone
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