GYPSUM DUCHESS

[aukepalmhof]

The company stated that the vessel on the stamp was either GYPSUM COUNTESS, GYPSUM DUCHESS or GYPSUM EMPRESS, so take your pick. Stanley Gibbon, Ship on Stamps gives the name GYPSUM DUCHESS on the vessel depict on the stamp.

All three were used in the transport of gypsum from Kingston, Jamaica, mostly for the American market.
GYPSUM EMPRESS and sisters GYPSUM COUNTESS, GYPSUM DUCHESS was of the second generation of self-unloaders built after Word War II. Built between 1956 and 1960 in France and Germany, they were 10,000 deadweight-ton steamships. They had small general cargo holds forward, and self-unloading gear conveyors recessed in the house aft.

GYPSUM DUCHESS built in 1956 under yard No. 714 as a self-unloader bulk carrier by the Deutsche Werft at Hamburg, for the Panama Gypsum Co. Inc., Panama.
Tonnage 8.180 gross, 4.323 net, 10.949 dwt. Dim. 441.1 x 64.4 x 25.4ft (draught).
Powered by one steam engine, speed 13 knots.

1962 Sold to Gypsum Transport Ltd., London. Not renamed.
1986 Sold to Duchess Shipping Co. Inc., Panama, renamed DUCHESS I.
Arrived 1 June 1987 at Barao de Teffe, Brazil for breaking up.

GYPSUM EMPRESS, built in 1956 under yard No. 699 as a self-unloader bulkcarrier by the Deutsche Werft, Hamburg for the Panama Gypsum Co. Inc., Panama.
Tonnage 8.180 gross, 4.323 net, 10.677 dwt., dim. 441.1 x 64.4 x 25.4ft (draught).
Powered by one steam engine, speed 13 knots.

1962 Sold to Gypsum Transport Ltd., London, not renamed.
Arrived 20 April 1984 at Tuxpan, Mexico, for breaking up.

GYPSUM COUNTESS, built in 1960 by At. & Ch. de la Seine Marit, Le Trait, France for Panama Gypsum Co. Inc., Panama.
Tonnage 8.240 gross, 4.020 net, 10.677 dwt. Dim. 445.82 x 64.2 x 24.95ft (draught).
Powered by two-geared General Electric steam turbines 3.300 shp. speed 13 knots.

1962 Sold to Gypsum Transport Ltd., London not renamed.
1989 Sold to Bimini Shipping Ltd., Cayman Islands, renamed GYPSY COUNTESS.
1994 Sold to Josiff Carriers Inc., Panama, renamed JOSIFF I.
End 2001, same name, same owner.
http://www.equasis.org Did have her not more under JOSIFF I in the database 2003.

She was broken up in Canada in 1998.

Jamaica 1964 9d sg225, scott?, 1969 8c on 9d sg285, scott?. 1970 8c sg312, scott?

Source: Marine News 1989/733 1994/295. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1956. Merchant Ships World Built Vol IX 1961. Lloyds Shipping Index.

[Mujtaba]

There are well known shipping company in that age. If you compare the ship in the picture with these three ships, the GYPSUM EMPRESS has the nearest look. I am hoping that the experts can prove it what ship is that in the picture.