In April of 1977, the Austin & Pickersgill Ltd. drydock in Sunderland, England launched their hull number S908 bearing the name London Baron. She was a B26 class bulk carrier of 15,900 deadweight tonnes that was built for the England based shipping company, London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. Several other ships were subsequently built and sailed originally as London Earl and London Viscount. In 1983 London Baron was sold to Olympic Maritime of Greece along with her sisters and renamed Olympic Phoenix under the Greek flag. Olympic Phoenix continued to be a regular Great Lakes visitor through the 1980s bringing steel products in from European ports and departing with Canadian or U.S. grown grains. In 1992, she was sold and renamed Jeannie and a number of additional Great Lakes voyages followed. In March of 1999 she became St. George A and in July of 2000 her name was shortened to St. George. During May of 2001 she was purchased by Harbor Shipping & Trading SA of Greece and renamed Chios Sky. This was the second Sunderland built B26 bulker Harbor Shipping & Trading had purchased for their fleet. Only 6 months earlier they has sold their hull damaged Chios Charm for scrapping in India. Chios Charm was built as hull number S903 with the name Lynton Grange. She later sailed as Northern Cherry. The demise of Chios Sky's sistership, Ithaki (hull number S909) is featured below. Information complied by Jeff Cameron from the Fairplay ISR and WSS Marine News |
Several more once familiar International bulk carriers that visited the Great Lakes through their careers have reached the ends of their careers. The 1975-built bulk carrier Golden Sky arrived at Gadani Beach, Pakistan during September of 2001 for scrapping. She was built in Spain as Ponte Pasaje and later sailed as Dry Sack under the flag of Spain. In 1987 she became Golden Sky and in the time since then she has traded owners and managers several times flying the flags of Cyprus, Saint Vincent, Bahamas and Malta. The Cyprus flagged bulk carrier Ithaki has also come to the end of her career. She was built in England at the Austin & Pickersgill shipyard as one of the large class of B26 bulk carriers in 1977. She entered service that year as London Earl and flew the flag of England. In 1983 she became part of the Olympic Maritime Company of Greece along with several of her sisters and the name Olympic Liberty was applied. In 1988 another sale transpired which resulted in her name changing to Staberg and her flag changing to Norway. She visited the Great Lakes under each name. Finally in August of 1995 her last name change took place after she was sold to Alalma Shipping Co. Ltd of Cyprus. Ithaki visted several more times but in December of 2001 her career came to an end when she arrived in India for dismantling. Since her construction in 1974 the Spanish built bulk carrier Ruder Boskovic has made numerous voyages to the Great Lakes. She was built by Astilleros Espanoles SA as hull number E266 for the Yugoslavian shipping giant, Atlantska Plovidba. When Yugoslavia brkoe up in the mid 1990s, her flag changed to Croatia however her name did not change.. It was not until April of 1997 that a sale to Corner Shipping of Greece brought about her first and only name change.. Iro flew the flag of Bahamas for the remainder of her career which only recently ended. During January of 2002 she was sold for around $850,000 to breakers in India for dismantling. The ship which was built immediately before Ruder Boskovic as hull number E265 was also a regular Great Lakes visitor under the name Cvijeta Zuzoric. Her career ended on January 19th of 1999 when she arrived at Alang, India for scrapping. She fetched around $700,000. Information by Fairplay Internet Ship Register & Jeff Cameron |
The Algofax was due to arrive in Seven Islands, Quebec at around 18:00 on the 7th to discharge petroleum products.. The Algosar arrived in Lewisporte, Newfoundland also on the 7th at around 11:00. She was due to depart today around 08:00 today for Sydney, Nova Scotia where she is due on the 10th at around 12:00 to unload petroleum products. Information courtesy Dean Porter |
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