Chailey IMO 5067730

[Brian Cotton]

I was R/O of the Chailey, a Stephenson Clarke coastal tanker built at Grangemouth in 1957. I joined late on that year. I have two pictures taken from a magazine years ago.
There is another picture of the Chailey on the web as the Libertad up a South American creek and still going years after.
She was a happy ship and very well appointed.
(This is my first post and may need working on!)

[Rick R.I.P.]

Originally Posted by Brian Cotton

I was R/O of the Chailey, a Stephenson Clarke coastal tanker built at Grangemouth in 1957. I joined late on that year. I have two pictures taken from a magazine years ago.
There is another picture of the Chailey on the web as the Libertad up a South American creek and still going years after.
She was a happy ship and very well appointed.
(This is my first post and may need working on!)

Hi Brian,Welcome to the site.
You will find an image of the CHAILEY here :http://transportsofdelight.smugmug.c...7706&k=42HFXjf.

Cheers, Rick

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Brian,
her details and history according to Miramar:

IMO: 5067730
Year: 1957
Name: CHAILEY
Flag: GBR
Type: Tanker
Launch Date: 14.3.57
Date of completion: 9.57
Tons: 2175
DWT: 2709
Length overall: 87.6
LPP: 82.3
Beam: 12.9
Country of build: GBR
Builder: Grangemouth DY
Location of yard: Grangemouth
Yard No: 518
Speed(kn): 11

Subsequent History:
69 REDROSE - 69 FILICUDI - 82 MAYAYCU - 99 ANDES - 06 LIBERTAD I

and Equasis:
IMO number : 5067730
Name of ship : LIBERTAD I (during 2005)
Call Sign : HC4464
Gross tonnage : 1534 (since 01/10/1999)
DWT : 2709
Type of ship : Oil Products Tanker (since 01/09/1957)
Year of build : 1957
Flag : Ecuador (since 01/09/1957)
Status of ship : No Longer updated by (LRF) IHSF (since 09/03/2010)

GT.com reports her as dead on Shipspotting.com
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/...php?lid=132343
Last update : 23/03/2010

[Brian Cotton]

Originally Posted by Rick

Hi Brian,Welcome to the site.
You will find an image of the CHAILEY here :http://transportsofdelight.smugmug.c...7706&k=42HFXjf.

Cheers, Rick

That's an excellent picture, Rick. I have two of my own but I can't get them to upload. It might be my anti-virus system. I remember that distinctive funnel although not when I first joined. That was at the awful tanker terminal at Shellhaven on the Thames. When I got there in the evening she had gone off the berth. There were no hotels nearby so I slept in a room where the security man said I could slump in one of the chairs. Instead I pulled down a pile of charts and wrapped my macintosh around some pilot books. I was in no fit state to look at funnels the next day, especially as they put out a ladder to get me aboard and with the tide/load it was horizontal.

Best Wishes
Brian

[Brian Cotton]

Originally Posted by Dierk Bauer

Hi Brian,
her details and history according to Miramar:

IMO: 5067730
Year: 1957
Name: CHAILEY
Flag: GBR
Type: Tanker
Launch Date: 14.3.57
Date of completion: 9.57
Tons: 2175
DWT: 2709
Length overall: 87.6
LPP: 82.3
Beam: 12.9
Country of build: GBR
Builder: Grangemouth DY
Location of yard: Grangemouth
Yard No: 518
Speed(kn): 11

Subsequent History:
69 REDROSE - 69 FILICUDI - 82 MAYAYCU - 99 ANDES - 06 LIBERTAD I

and Equasis:
IMO number : 5067730
Name of ship : LIBERTAD I (during 2005)
Call Sign : HC4464
Gross tonnage : 1534 (since 01/10/1999)
DWT : 2709
Type of ship : Oil Products Tanker (since 01/09/1957)
Year of build : 1957
Flag : Ecuador (since 01/09/1957)
Status of ship : No Longer updated by (LRF) IHSF (since 09/03/2010)

GT.com reports her as dead on Shipspotting.com
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/...php?lid=132343
Last update : 23/03/2010

Thanks for the welcome, Dierk. Her UK call sign was GWQL.
As I have just said to Rick I am afraid I can't upload my two pictures, possibly due to my virus checker. I had several attempts yesterday to no avail. I'll try again in a few days.
Best Wishes
Brain

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Brian, thank you very much for your efforts

Sent you a PM, maybe the error message due to large size image (exceeding 700kb)??

[Rick R.I.P.]

Originally Posted by Brian Cotton

That's an excellent picture, Rick. I have two of my own but I can't get them to upload. It might be my anti-virus system. I remember that distinctive funnel although not when I first joined. That was at the awful tanker terminal at Shellhaven on the Thames. When I got there in the evening she had gone off the berth. There were no hotels nearby so I slept in a room where the security man said I could slump in one of the chairs. Instead I pulled down a pile of charts and wrapped my macintosh around some pilot books. I was in no fit state to look at funnels the next day, especially as they put out a ladder to get me aboard and with the tide/load it was horizontal.

Best Wishes
Brian

Hi Brian,I remember Shellhaven (now a container port).You must have been on the Power station run in the Thames and to Great Yarmouth.?
I was on the Midhurst of Stevies - a small bitumen tanker .One trip we had was to Baatsfjiord and other small ports in Norway around the North Cape on the Russian border.

Cheers Rick

[Brian Cotton]

Originally Posted by Rick

Hi Brian,I remember Shellhaven (now a container port).You must have been on the Power station run in the Thames and to Great Yarmouth.?
I was on the Midhurst of Stevies - a small bitumen tanker .One trip we had was to Baatsfjiord and other small ports in Norway around the North Cape on the Russian border.

Cheers Rick

Hi Rick
We were up and down the East Coast, all delightful tanker terminals in Immingham, Killingholme (well named) all the terminals on the Tyne and the Wear, the Forth. I don't know what we carried I just remember awful places miles from anywhere and dreadful weather when we were at sea (winter of 1957). I took weather forecasts from everywhere I could especially when we came down the Thames Estuary sideways.
Then there was an industrial dispute in Ireland and we made our way via Hamble,and Portsmouth to the West Coast, swapping with the Irish Sea ship. That was a bit easier - Dublin, Belfast, Stanlow, Heysham. I left early in 1958. Sorry in some ways as it was a friendly ship.
All the Best
Brian