Lamport & Holt Lamport & Holts'  M.V. "Belloc"  
       
  Built: Austin & Pickersgill Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland to standard SD14 design, 1979  
  IMO: 7614771  
Dimensions: 472.44 x 65.62 x 29.03 feet
  Tonnage: Gross: 9324  Net: 6151 Deadweight: 15,265 tonnes  
  Propulsion: 4-Cylinder 2 S.C.S.A. Sulzer 4RND68M oil engine, 7,600 bhp at 150 rpm by George Clark & N.E.M. Ltd., Sunderland driving single screw  
  Type: General Cargo Ship to SD14 design with capacity for 118 TEU  
  Completed: 02/1980 as Belloc for Belloc Shipping Co. (Lamport & Holt Ltd. managers)  
  Laid up: 03/1981 at Liverpool  
  Sold: 1981 to Montenegro Overseas Navigation Ltd., Panama and renamed Piva  
Sold: 1992 to Bar Overseas Shipping Ltd, Valletta and renamed Rio B (Rigal ship Management Ltd., managers)
  Sold: 10/1996 to Prekookeanska Plovidba Bar S.A., Montenegro  
  Sold: 11/2000 to Yong Shun Shipping and renamed Pangani  
  Sold: 03/2002 to Chinese-Tanzanian Shipping  
  Sold: 12/2004 to KSH Shipping, Malta  
  Sold: 12/2006 to Marachart Shipping  
  Sold: 11/2006 to Tough Trader Maritime, Singapore and renamed Tough Trader, still in service  
       
  Sister ships: Bronte (3) , Browning (3)  &  Boswell (3)  
     
 
Belloc
 
Fitting out at Austin & Pickersgill Ltd, C1980
 
Photograph courtesy Bill Houghton Boreham
 
     
 

The Belloc  was of a Standard Ship Design known as  SD 14. One of  four, of the Bronte, Boswell and Browning class.  All built by Austin Pickersgill 1979 to 1980 with a Four Cylinder Sulzer and single turbo-charger. ( It did look big. ) and conventional Sulzer fuel injection equipment. There were  initially a few little problems with vibration but it was soon resolved and generally were very good ships for their purpose.  Regrettably the trade situation was falling away and they did not get a lot of service before being laid-up in Liverpool and then sold, Belloc in 1981 and the others in 1983.

 
   
  Belloc ~ CSAV Charter - loading bulk fishmeal at Arica, Chile  
     
   
Belloc ~ CSAV Charter - Rotterdam, November 1980
     
   
  Belloc ~ Hapag-Lloyd charter, Rotterdam February 1981  
     
  Above photographs courtesy of Bill Houghton Boreham who was Chief Officer on her.  
     
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