TEAKWOOD

[Tony Frost]

Is this a sister ship to the ST.ROSARIO?

MEDCAPE ex.TEAKWOOD

[magoonigal]

Certainly Similar but I would say No.

TEAKWOOD.
John I Jacobs & Co Ltd London. South American Saint Line, Newport.
1962.Yard No 819.

9,092 Gross. 12,550 Dwt. 9,183 Gross. 11,650 Dwt.
L oa. 144.1 m. L bp 135.1. Beam 19.1 m L oa. 144 m. L bp. 134.9 m. Beam 19.1 m.
Laing Deptford Yard. J L Thompson. North Sands.

70 ALIKRATOR
76 MEDCAPE
B/U Kaohsiung arriving 29th June 1984.

Similar Hull dimensions but the Superstructure is different.
St Rosario has well Decks fore and aft where as Teakwood is more Flush.

[magoonigal]

Sorry I tried to space it out but when I submitted the message it brought it all together.

Hope you can sort the bits out!

[magoonigal]

Builders Photograph Reprinted from The Motor Ship April 1962.

[Tony Frost]

Was it part of a cancelled order?

[magoonigal]

Tony, Have taken the liberty of adding your picture of the SR to this Post so its easier to compare the two ships.
As you can see there are differences and Talbot Booth does not list them as Sister Ships.

Tom might be able to supply the information we need.

[fitter]

The image below is a scan directly from the Laings original "Ships Launched" register that starts with "Horta," 80ft BP; DWT "abt 248," for Captain Forster Whitburn in 1793, just as a matter of interest. Sadly the register, which in some places is in beautiful handwriting, does not include the last twelve ships built at Deptford or any of the eleven Doxford contracts built between 1972 and 1980 at Laings, partially due to the rebuilding of Doxfords yard.
The details for Teakwood make interesting reading. They may not be entirely legible when uploaded because one comment was written in a blunt pencil and what remains is almost faded. It reads " Sold to Greeks 7/70 £680,040." The other comment which has been written in ink over the pencil, but has subsequently been partly crossed out, reads "Handed over 28.2.62 1st cargo vessel in Jacobs fleet.[i][/i] The underlined italics are the bit crossed out.
This is the scanned image:

My list of ships built at Thompsons, North Sands Yard, prefixed with "Saint" is below, though not all are for the Saint Line and Barry Shipping, essentially the same company, ultimately.

Laings and Thompsons worked very closely together from the early 1900s (the Marr Family connections assisted this co-operation). In 1954 they formed the Sunderland Shipbuilding, Dry-Docks and Engineering Company with Sunderland Forge, Greenwells, John Lynn, Sunderland Engineering Equipment Company, and Wear Winch and Foundry Company. Then in 1961 Doxfords joined in and the Doxford and Sunderland Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was formed. Pity the poor typists having to type that out frequently! Quite when Wolsingham Steel Works was incorporated into the group I don't know, but it was an integral part and supplied stern frames, tailshafts etc. It's just down the road from me but sadly all that is left is the front wall. It was all demolished several years ago and the buildings that do remain are now the home of the Weardale Railway, an expensive way to travel if ever there was one. Almost as dear as computer ink that costs £4,500 per gallon equivalent
Anyhow, the close co-operation between the Laings and Thompsons in my time is evident in the 45,000 dwt, several of them Norwegian, bulkers of the 1960s, (Pickersgills also built two similar bulkers), and in the thirteen Panamax bulkers of the 70s. Other ships that were built between the yards were very similar to each other.
But despite the strong similarities, Teakwood and the Saint Line ships were not sisters. That was the original question in case you forgot.
Tom

[magoonigal]

Well that's sorted that out! Thanks Tom.

[fitter]

P.S.
Came across this Thompson/Laing advert from the Motor Ship in 1960:

[fitter]

In the Laings "Ships launched" ledger I found some entries that illustrate the co-opertaion between Laings and Thompsons:
In 1900 two ships built by Laings, ( 577 Mincola and 578 Mohawk), are recorded as being "sub let from J.L.Thompson & Sons"
Later 727, 728 and 737, (Beechwood, Glenwood and Empire Bruce), were built as "Economy type to J.L.T. model."