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A.E.S.

Post by shipstamps » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:36 pm


1957-1974. A motorship of 994 gross tons, 449 net tons and 2,177 deadweight, built by A/S. Svendborg Skibsvaerft, Svendborg, for A.E. Sorensen, also of Svendborg, Denmark. She is a closed shelter deck type with machinery, aft and has a length of 257 ft. 7 in., breadth of 37 ft. 2 in. and draft of 17 ft. 6.5/8 in. The owner's initials constitute the ship's name. This vessel was chartered by the Falkland Islands Company for trading between the Falklands and the United Kingdom. Her first arrival at Port Stanley was on December 16, 1957 and she continued to make four calls each year with mail and cargo up to 1974. SG331A

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Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:21 pm

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No. 79 by Svendborg Skibsværft A/S at Svendborg, Denmark for A.E. Sørensen, Svendborg Denmark.
1957 Launched under the name A.E.S., abbreviation of the owner’s name.
Tonnage 994 gross, 449 net, 1,198 dwt., dim. 78.52 x 11.33 x 5.36m.
One 8 cyl. diesel engine, manufactured by Maschinen Fabrik KEIL A.G. , 1.530 hp., one screw, speed 13½ knots. Bunker capacity 254 tons diesel oil.
Accommodation to carry 18 passengers.

After delivery chartered by the Falkland Island Co, and she arrived for the first time in Port Stanley on 16 December 1957.
Thereafter for seventeen years she made four roundtrips between the Falkland Islands and the U.K., with general cargo and mail.
The company could supply cargo for only three of these voyages so the fourth homeward cargo was from South America, often Brazilian timber.
April 1964 she stopped at Tristan da Cunha to deliver sheep from the Falklands.
1974 Made her last voyage for the Falkland Island Co., and redelivered to owners.
June 1975 Sold to Astromar Navigation Corporation at Panama, renamed DESPO I.
1981 her tonnage given as 1,548 gross.

On 10 June 1981, at Barcelona, Spain, loaded with a cargo of tiles, general goods, empty bottles and paper, destined for Limassol and Beirut, she developed a list shortly after unberthing. This caused an entry of water into her hold, as a consequence of which she sank in the harbour.

Was declared a constructive total loss, the wreck lay in sunken condition for many months until being raised and taken to a shipbreaker yard for scrapping in April 1982.

Sources. Log Book. Navicula. Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke. Watercraft Philately.

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