Lamport & Holt Lamport & Holts'  S.S. "Rubens" 3  
       
  Built: William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Sunderland  
  ON: 183817  
Dimensions: 410.6 x 55.2 x 24 feet
  Tonnage: Gross: 4472 Net: 2559  
  Propulsion: Triple Expansion Steam reciprocating by North East Marine Eng'g Co., Sunderland  
  Type: Cargo liner  
  Launched: 23/5/1951 (Yard No.326) as the Crispin (3) for Booth S.S. Co., Liverpool   
  Completed: 8/1951  
  Transferred: 1953 to Austasia Line and renamed  Mandowi 1  
  Returned: 1966 to Booth and renamed Dunstan (5) but chartered to Lamport as Rubens 3  
  Sold: 1973 to George Kalogeros, Piraeus and renamed Irini   
  Broken up:  04/1974 in Turkey  
       
  Sister ship: Renoir  
     
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  Rubens 3  - Fraser Darrah Collection  
     
 

Originally built for Booth Line as the Crispin (3) she became the Mandowi of Austasia Line, returning to Booths as the Dunstan (5), only to be chartered to Lamport's as the Rubens. A typical example of the Vestey's propensity for swapping a ship between the fleets!

 
   
  Rubens 3  - Fraser Darrah Collection  
     
   
   Rubens 3 off the Montevideo breakwater ~ Painting © Wallace Trickett  
     
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