by magoonigal » Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:42 pm
A bit more information from Cowden and Duffy.
SPEEDWAY.
Built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd, Leith as Yard Number 507 for Seaway Car Transporters Ltd (Mountwood Shipping Ltd, Managers.) Registered Liverpool.
1970 Launched 18th February and completed in the May.
10th September, acquired by Elder Dempster Lines Ltd and renamed CLEARWAY
1971. 24th June, transferred from Felixstowe-Scandinavia Service to United Kingdom-West Africa Conference Lines, Ro-Ro service from Poole to Lagos.
1978. 6th June. Sold for £378,000 to O'Shea (Dublin) Ltd and renamed O'SHEA EXPRESS. Registered Liverpool.
1980. April, re-engined with twin Atlas-Mak units developing 3,300 bhp.
1984. 17th May, Sold at auction to Y A Kabbani. Registered Beirut. No name change indicated.
1984. To Mundial Trading SA, Beirut.
2006. To O'Shea Express, Beirut.
2009. Hussam Maritime. Renamed AHMED N and registered Moroni.
2010. Registered Zanzibar.
Current Details.
IMO number : 7011462
Name of ship : AHMED N (since 01/03/2009)
Call Sign : 5IM383
MMSI : 677028300
Gross tonnage : 4592 (since 01/08/1996)
Type of ship : Livestock Carrier (before 2009)
Year of build : 1970
Flag : Tanzania (since 01/07/2010)
Status of ship : In Service/Commission (during 05/1970)
Last update : 24/10/2012
Registered owner HUSSAM MARITIME SA Care of Star Marine KN , Albaraka Office, 3rd Floor, Neiem Building, al-Mina Street, Tartous, Syria.
Last inspection was 2008.
Paul Hood. + WSS Tyneside Branch Hon Sec.