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50 YEARS AGO TODAY - KEMPHAAN

PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:03 pm
by teesships
KEMPHAAN (5184978), Netherlands, 499gt, completed Bardenfleth 3-1959
1959 KEMPHAAN - 1973 BREWARRINA - 1976 KEMPHAAN -
fire 42.42S/173.20E 11.6.78 (2 lost) [Timaru-Nukualofa, meat] & ac/b (bombed by aircraft) as a target 43.15S/173.56E 17.6.78

Hull - 4 July 1967:
kemphaan040767.jpg

My next sighting was the BORODINO. See: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=11979

Ron

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - KEMPHAAN

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:45 am
by michaelp
I saw Kemphaan in Bridlington sometime during the 1960's. Whenever it was it would have been in August as that was where we went for our holidays. Came with a cargo of fresh bilberries from Poland. Word at the time was that it was a diversion as there was a dock strike at Hull.

Michael

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - KEMPHAAN

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:12 pm
by northeast
michaelp wrote:Word at the time was that it was a diversion as there was a dock strike at Hull.

Michael


Highly likely, we always seemed to have one! KEMPHAAN was refrigerated to would have suited the fruit trade. This cargo would normally have been on the BALTIC SUN or the Polish boats into Albert Dock.