CAESAREA ferry 1960

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CAESAREA ferry 1960

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:35 pm

Built as a passenger ferry under yard No 2008 by J.Samuel White & Co., East Cowes, England for the British Transport Commission Southern Region (British Railways), London
29 January 1960 launched under the name CAESAREA, christened by Lady Contanche.
Tonnage 4.174 grt, 2.271 net, 640dwt, dim. 99.15 x 16.36 x 4.14m.
Powered by two double reduction geared Pametrade designed steam turbines, manufactured by Whites., 8.500 shp., speed 19 knots.
One bow thruster, and fitted out with Denny Brown stabilisers.
Passenger accommodation for 1.400 day passengers in one class, crew 78. Did have 25 double bed cabins and 12 single berth cabins.
There was a limited space for cargo and cars fore and aft, but the vessel did not have any own loading or discharging gear.
05 November 1960 delivered.

She was designed for the day and night service between Weymouth and the Channel islands.
She and her sister the SARNIA were the last conventional ferries built for the Channel Islands ferry service.
16 November 1969 maiden voyage with invited guests and directors to the Channel Islands.
02 December 1960 was her first commercial voyage.
August 1968 was she holed by approaching Weymouth, repaired in Southampton drydock.
1973 Taken out of service temporarily after grounding at Jersey.
08 October 1973 she carried the last mail to the Channel Islands, thereafter all mail was send by plane, and the packet post by ro-ro vessel.
06 October 1975 she made her last voyage to the Channel Islands, altogether she made 2.042 roundtrips, with a total of steamed miles of 396.148 and carried 3.267.200 passengers.
1975 Transferred to the cross channel service between Dover and France.
06 October 1980 laid up at Newhaven.

20 December 1980 sold to Superluck Enterprises Inc., Panama for further trading in the Pacific, renamed AESAREA.
10 February 1981 arrived at Hong Kong and laid up, moored on a buoy in the Shamshupo Anchorage, near Stonecutters Island.
The intention of the company to use her in the Hajj pilgrim trade to Saudi Arabia, but if she ever was used in this trade is doubtful.
09 September 1983 during typhoon Ellen she broke loss of her moorings and grounded in shallow water.
10 September 1983 refloated by tugs, did not have any damage.
Anyhow the Hajj was now based more on aircraft and large passenger ships; the AESAREA was to small and old to be economical.
1984 Sold to unknown buyers in the Philippine, most probably the deal fell trough.
02 April 1986 arrived at Kure, Japan for a planned refit in a hotelship.
25 June 1986 left already Kure for a breakers yard in South Korea.
An other source gives that she was towed in March 1988 to a breakers yard in Kaohsiung, but a photo published in August 1988 indicates a Pakistan location where she was broken up, and an other source gives broken up in Singapore http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz gives broken up in 1992.

Jersey 1978 13p sg201, scott? 1994 60p sg678, scott689.
Jersey 2020 £1.18 sg?, scott?


Source Sea Breezes Vol 70 page 813. Vol 71 page 402. Register of merchant ships completed in 1960.
http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/caesarea_1960.htm and various other web-sites.
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