Auby from Astern
This view looks at the Auby from the opposite direction seen in Tuesday's post, both being taken on the same day.
The steel-hulled MV Auby was ordered from the Henry Robb Shipyard in Leith, Scotland, for the Sarawak Steamship Company Ltd, which was looking for a twin-screw diesel cargo and passenger vessel. She was launched in September 1953.
Built to carry out trade around Borneo and from Sarawak to Singapore across the Straits, a journey that took around 70 hours, she was 1,572 tonnes with a length of 64.6m and a beam of 13.4m with a design draught of 6.4m.
During the Indonesian Confrontation in the early 1960s, her holds were converted into accommodation for up to 700 troops being shuttled to and from Borneo. Their bunks were mainly stacked five-high but some were nine-high!
She was sold to the Straits Steamship Company and is seen here in their colours in mid-1973 using her own derricks to load or unload sacks in what I believe is Jesselton.
Jesselton was renamed in 1967 as Kota Kinabalu and is the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo; however, at that time ex-pat Brits still used the earlier name.
The split superstructure was typical of many of the tramp steamers operating in the region at the time. By positioning the bridge forward and high, it allowed the Captain and helmsman to see over the tops of the trees and round the bends in estuaries and rivers as the ships negotiated poorly-charted and shifting navigable waters to reach inland ports.
Scanned from a slide, this image was taken by a relative who was working in the Far East.
Auby from Astern
This view looks at the Auby from the opposite direction seen in Tuesday's post, both being taken on the same day.
The steel-hulled MV Auby was ordered from the Henry Robb Shipyard in Leith, Scotland, for the Sarawak Steamship Company Ltd, which was looking for a twin-screw diesel cargo and passenger vessel. She was launched in September 1953.
Built to carry out trade around Borneo and from Sarawak to Singapore across the Straits, a journey that took around 70 hours, she was 1,572 tonnes with a length of 64.6m and a beam of 13.4m with a design draught of 6.4m.
During the Indonesian Confrontation in the early 1960s, her holds were converted into accommodation for up to 700 troops being shuttled to and from Borneo. Their bunks were mainly stacked five-high but some were nine-high!
She was sold to the Straits Steamship Company and is seen here in their colours in mid-1973 using her own derricks to load or unload sacks in what I believe is Jesselton.
Jesselton was renamed in 1967 as Kota Kinabalu and is the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo; however, at that time ex-pat Brits still used the earlier name.
The split superstructure was typical of many of the tramp steamers operating in the region at the time. By positioning the bridge forward and high, it allowed the Captain and helmsman to see over the tops of the trees and round the bends in estuaries and rivers as the ships negotiated poorly-charted and shifting navigable waters to reach inland ports.
Scanned from a slide, this image was taken by a relative who was working in the Far East.