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MAKENI PALM (BRITISH ROVER) - 1951

PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:33 pm
by northeast
1951, 6137grt
J. L. Thompson, Sunderland (665) as BRITISH ROVER for BP
1961 MAKENI PALM, Palm Line and converted to vegetable oil tanker
MAKENIPALM1951.jpg

1967 KERKENNAH, Panama flag
1971 PALAU, Italian
Broken up at Brindisi, arrived 11/6/1978

Re: MAKENI PALM (BRITISH ROVER) - 1951

PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:43 pm
by fitter
Doxford 600LB3 engine, no 277.
One in a series of three at the yard, others:
664 British Navigator, Doxford 600LB3 engine no 276
669 British Warrior, Doxford 600LB3 engine no 278

Re: MAKENI PALM (BRITISH ROVER) - 1951

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:20 pm
by teesships
50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

Liverpool, 14 September 1965:
makenipalm140965.jpg
Ron