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Lamport & Holts' M.V. "Boswell" 3 |
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Austin & Pickersgill Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland to
standard SD14 design, 1979 |
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Dimensions: |
472.44 x 65.62 x 29.03 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 9324 Net: 6151
Deadweight: 15,265 tonnes |
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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 |
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Type: |
Standard Ship Design SD 14
with capacity for 118 TEU's |
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Launched: |
07/1979 as Boswell for Boswell Shipping Co. Ltd. |
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Sold: |
1983 to Chinese-Tanzanian Joint Shipping Co., Canton and renamed
Shun Yi |
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Still in service: |
1998 |
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Sisterships: |
Bronte (3),
Browning (3) &
Belloc |
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Boswell at the Cape Verde Islands 1981 - Photograph © Kevin
Brown |
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The Boswell was of a Standard Ship Design known
as SD 14. One of four of the Bronte, Browning
and Belloc 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.
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Boswell at Liverpool - Photograph © Ron Baker |
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Boswell at Buenos Aires 12/1980 ~
Photograph © Markus Berger |
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In dry-dock Liverpool C1980,
She had run aground on the Rio Grande, Brasil and damaged the bilge in way of
the starboard side forward of the engine room. |
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| Control platform of the
Boswell 4 cyl Sulzer RND-M and Allan Generator |
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Buenos Aires C1981 and
shore trip Rio de Janeiro |
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Photographs © Paul Smith |
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| Berthed at No.2 Berth Rio de
Janeiro |
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Cardiff (dwarfed by the tanker
Osco Spirit) |
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| Berthed at No.2 Berth Rio de Janeiro |
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Sunset - South Atlantic |
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Photographs © Kevin Brown 1983 |
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Wikipedia Link:
James Boswell (1740 - 1795) |
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Updated:
23-09-2007 |
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