London Valour 1961 & 1963 |
REGISTERED DIMENSIONS Moulded External Length = 560' 00" 593' 02" Breadth = 80' 00" 80' 04" Depth = 42' 03" 42' 05 1/8" Particulars Summer Winter Draught = 32' 04 1/4" 31' 08 1/4" Freeboard = 10' 00 3/4" 10' 08 3/4" Deadwt. = 24,900 tons 24,165 tons T.P.I. = 92.15 " 91.83 " F.W.A. = 8 3/4" Tonnages Gross = 16,268.03 Net = 9,497.34 Under Deck = 14,517.35 Windlass Clark Chapman Steam horizontal direct grip 2 cylinders 12" x 15" Cables Port = 10 cables of 2 9/16" Tayco Starb = 10 cables of 2 9/16" Tayco Anchors Port = 108 cwt. Starb = 108 cwt. Spare = 108 cwt. Winches Clark Chapman Steam extended warping ends 1 right hand 8" x 12" 1 " " 9" x 12" Derricks Tubular Steel Ford 2 x 6 ton S.W.L. Length = 47' 00 1/2" Mid 2 x 5 " " " = 41' 00 1/2" Aft 2 x 4 " " " = 41' 06 1/2" |
Lifeboats 4 Aluminium 1 motor 24' x 8' 06" x 3' 10" 40 person 3 rowing 24' x 8' 06" x 3' 10" 44 person also 1 wooden dingy 18' x 6' 06" x 2' 06" Propelling Machinery Makers Richardson Westgarth and Co. ( Hartlepool ) Engine Single screw double reduction geared turbine 7,300 S.H.P. at 100 r.p.m. Boilers 2 Foster Wheeler "D" type Water tube Heating surface 9,330 sq ft. ( per boiler ) Propeller Solid Manganese Bronze, 4 Blades Diam 19' 00" Mean Pitch 15.75' Expanded Surface 146 sq ft UNISLIP Pumping Installation Cargo pumps 3 Drysdale Horizontal Centrifgal Turbo Drive 14" x 14" 1,000 T.P.H. ( water) at 1,625 r.p.m. Drain Pumps 3 Caruthers Vertical Duplex 15" x 10" x 15" 157 ton at 36 double strokes per min. Oil transfer Pumps Thomas Lamont Vertical Duplex For'd P.R. 10" x 7 " x 10" = 50 t.p.h. Aft P.R. 10" x 7" x 10" = 50 t.p.h. Suction pipes 3 independent systems serving Tanks 1& 2 3,4,5, 6,7,8,9, with 13" diam. mains and 12" crossovers Discharge Pipes 13" diam Deck line 12" " Stern " 6" " Stripping Discharge WIRELESS Main Transmitter = Marconi Oceanspan MK 1V Emergency " = Marconi Reliance 120 watts MF only Main Reciever = Redifon Type R 50M D.F. = Marconi lodestone Auto alarm = Redifon Type AL27 Echo sounder = Marconi Seagraph Radar = Cossor MK2A |
LONDON VALOUR Built 1956 Furness Shipbuilding
Co. Haverton on Tees Call Sign MXGC Port of Registry LONDON Class + 100A LLoyds carriage of Petroleum in bulk ******************************* |
First time onboard Joined as 2nd Officer in Thameshaven 15th Feb1961 Left 5th Nov 1961 Captain J. Dixon + Wife Ch/Officer R. Jeans + Wife 2nd/Officer myself + Valerie 3rd/Officer D. Holt Apprentices Jacobs Upton ( seagoing was not what he expected) Radio Officers Fletcher Beckett Ch/Steward. Baynes Allan ( ex Resolution ) Ch/Engineer Edwards + Wife 2nd/Engineer McLeish (left in Naples ) Browne 3rd/Engineer McLafferty Morrison 4th/Engineer Howard Junior Engineers 1) Watters 2) Rouse Rebbeck Burns Drummond Gartley Electrical Charlton Engineers Tevendale |
Second Time onboard Joined as Chief Officer in Antwerp 18 Mar 1963 Left 30 Set. 1963 Captain D. Muir A. Alexander + Wife Ch/Officer myself 2nd/Officer L. Young 3rd/Officer G. Watts Apprentices J.H. Legget ( acting 4/Off as of 30 June ) M.R. Sebborn Sinclair ( joined 12 July ) Radio Officer P.M. Evans Ch/Steward. Coull Gray Ch/Engineer S. Mitchell 2nd/Engineer D. Honeychurch + Wife Hope Rickaby 3rd/Engineer. Yin ( Burmese ) 4th/Engineer. Howard Junior Engineers Bell, Mc Cleary, Hurley, Tierney, Electrical Engineer Dougherty Passenger Abcarius |
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