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VAMOS

Post by shipstamps » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:47 pm


This cargo vessel was built under yard no 137 by the Glommens Mek. Verks. At Frederikstad for the Sverre Ditlev-Simonsen & Co., Oslo, Norway.
14 November 1951 launched under the name VAMOS.
Tonnage 1.090 gross, 512 net, 1.526 dwt., dim. 250.6 x 37.10 x 16.4ft.
Powered by one Nydqvist & Holm dieselengine, 1.260 bhp., speed 11½ knots.
Three hatches, cargo gear one derrick of 15 ton, five of 5 ton.
March 1952 delivered.

1954 Transferred to Panama Shipping Corp., Panama, thereafter bareboat chartered by Booth Line at Liverpool. Used by the Booth Line one her service from New York to North Brazil and the Amazon River, later in the service from Montreal to the West Indies and British Guyana. The charter with the Booth Line ended in 1968. The Booth Line was founded ca. 1863 and was one of the smallest but well know shipping lines from Liverpool. The company her lines were from Europe and North America to North Brazil and the Amazon River. Her last two ships were the chartered Dutch vessels CLEMENT ex FRISIAN GLORY and CRISPEN ex FRISIAN HOPE used in the service between England to Brazil. The liner service of the Booth Line ceased operation in the end of 1991, and so far I know the line does not more exist.

1968 Sold to Rapier & Ray Nav. Co. Ltd., Panama, renamed DEFIANCE.
During a voyage from Antofagasta to Callao, Peru with a cargo of copper minerals and 450 head of cattle, she was running in bad weather. During this encounter she was hit by a huge wave of 40 ft., the cattle panicked and this mass movements causing the ship to capsize and sink, in a position 16 10 S 75 46W about 270 miles south of Callao off the port of Chala on 28 June 1969.
Sixteen crewmen drowned and all the cattle, only 9 men were rescued.

St Kitts 1990 $5 sg 324.

Register of Merchant ships completed in 1952, Booth Line by P.M.Heaton, Modern Shippinq Disasters by Norman Hooke.

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