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KELSO

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:30 pm

Built as a fishery research vessel under yard No 800 by Hayashikana Ship Building Eng. Co. Nagasaiki, Japan for the Government of Japan (Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Fisheries Agency).
Launched under the name TOKO MARU.
Tonnage 1.516 grt, 482 net, 890dwt. Dim. 78.64 x 11 x 6.8m., draught 5.48m. Length bpp. 68m.
Powered by one 6-cyl.Nigata diesel engine, 3.500 hp, speed 14 knots.
Accommodation for 38 crew and 12 passengers.
Cargo capacity 120m².
1971 Completed.

1996 Sold to Eurex Ltd., Panama and renamed KELSO.
She is managed by Ovestone Ltd, Cape Town. IMO No 7338561.
She is used the year around in fishing.
2006 Still in service.

She is depict also in the background of this stamp, the white painted vessel.

Tristan da Cunha 1998 50p sg 635, scott?

Source: Watercraft Philately. Marine News 1997/430. http://www.tristande.com/ships.php
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"Melodie" with "Kelso" in background.
"Melodie" with "Kelso" in background.

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Re: KELSO

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:38 am

THE KELSO was sold and renamed in TITANIC in 2009.

The TITANIC of 1912 belonged to White Star Line. this one was originally.
The KELSO was owned by Ovenstone of Cape Town who reportedly sold her for an unconfirmed $900,000 to a Californian resident last month who intends to convert her at the Island of Grenada into a private motor yacht.
The keel was laid on the 6th November 1970 in Japan and she was delivered to her owners nearly four months later as a fisheries patrol vessel that was to be used for extended durations at sea which is why she was equipped to a very high specification.
Four 2,000HP Niigata 6 cylinder engines driving a single CP propeller to give a maximum speed of 19kts,
Large tankerage, enormous inventory of spares, spacious accommodation in a beautifully furnished superstructure with an extensively equipped Radio Room & Bridge. Worthy of mention is the roll damping structure constructed aft of the bridge, interlinked by a 8" pipe with valves to allow the fluid to be transferred from port to starb'd and vice versa with the aid of compressed air.
For 13 years the KELSO traded between the remotest inhabited Island in the world, Tristan Da Cunha (on the belt of the Roaring Forties) where she fished under licence for Tristan Crayfish and her base which was Cape Town.
Because the Island is so remote and only 275 inhabitants she also carried deck cargo for the Island as well as up to 20 passengers on occasions (emergency medivacs) but usually she was confined to 12 passengers.
She left Cape Town as the KELSO on the 8th August 2009 and arrived at St. Helena Island on Sunday 16th August as the TITANIC causing panic and mayhem among the local constabulary and the Deputy Governor who were all convinced that the 13 crew plus the owner were pirates of the South Atlantic!!! The TITANIC departed on Monday night after making many new friends on the Island

As given by Daily Collection of Maritime Press Clippings 2009-229

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