m/v Ramon De Larrinaga, Preston Docks. 1962
Captured while being turned in the main basin with assistance from the Preston Corporation tug Frank Jamieson
Photo courtesy of Jim McFaul, www.shipsnostalgia.com
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The following comment courtesy of Clydebrae:
This is a big ship for Preston and a truly world wide trader compared to the majority of vessels which visited the port, designed for, and involved in, the coasting, Baltic and Mediterranean trades.
Despite her exotic name, she was registered in Liverpool, having been built in 1954 for the Larrinaga Steamship Company Ltd. As their name implies, they had a Spanish background, Ramon de Larrinaga having moved to Liverpool in 1862.
With a beam of 59ft 8ins she was close to the limits, and would have been too deep to arrive with full deadwight cargo.
I suspect she arrived with timber - most likely from Eastern Canada - and may well have first discharged at Garston, on the Mersey, to reduce her draught to match the restrictions at Preston.
Larrinaga were well known tramp shipowners but by the 1950's life was becoming difficult, traditional cargoes such as coal for export being in terminal decline. This vessel was the first of a newbuilding programme, delivered in 1954, and she was designed to be attractive to the established liner companies, having tween decks, deep tanks for the carriage of limited quantities of liquids, and a good range of 10 ton derricks and one capable of lifting 25tons
She traded worldwide and one of her claims to fame was to be the first seagoing vessel to berth at Duluth, Lake Superior after the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway. This was on 28th May 1959.
m/v Ramon De Larrinaga, Preston Docks. 1962
Captured while being turned in the main basin with assistance from the Preston Corporation tug Frank Jamieson
Photo courtesy of Jim McFaul, www.shipsnostalgia.com
Click Here to see more of Jim's ship collection.
The following comment courtesy of Clydebrae:
This is a big ship for Preston and a truly world wide trader compared to the majority of vessels which visited the port, designed for, and involved in, the coasting, Baltic and Mediterranean trades.
Despite her exotic name, she was registered in Liverpool, having been built in 1954 for the Larrinaga Steamship Company Ltd. As their name implies, they had a Spanish background, Ramon de Larrinaga having moved to Liverpool in 1862.
With a beam of 59ft 8ins she was close to the limits, and would have been too deep to arrive with full deadwight cargo.
I suspect she arrived with timber - most likely from Eastern Canada - and may well have first discharged at Garston, on the Mersey, to reduce her draught to match the restrictions at Preston.
Larrinaga were well known tramp shipowners but by the 1950's life was becoming difficult, traditional cargoes such as coal for export being in terminal decline. This vessel was the first of a newbuilding programme, delivered in 1954, and she was designed to be attractive to the established liner companies, having tween decks, deep tanks for the carriage of limited quantities of liquids, and a good range of 10 ton derricks and one capable of lifting 25tons
She traded worldwide and one of her claims to fame was to be the first seagoing vessel to berth at Duluth, Lake Superior after the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway. This was on 28th May 1959.