SWAN HUNTER SHIPBUILDERS LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name DUNSTANBURGH CASTLE
Type Bulk carrier
Yard Number 18
Launched 25/09/1969
Completed 03/1970 (Largest ship built on Teesside to date)
Off. Number 337354
Engine builder Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Engine type 2SA 8 cyl. Burmeister & Wain
GRT 57024
Length (feet) 855.1
Beam (feet) 133.8
First owner Bamburgh Shipping Co. Ltd. (W. A. Souter & Co.), Newcastle
   
History 1981 GLOBAL AMBITION, Global Shipping Co., South Korea
  1982 renamed GLOBAL HOPE, same owners (managers later Pan Ocean Shipping, South Korea)
   
Fate 19/09/1994 arrived at Alang for breaking.

During fitting-out, by Ron Mapplebeck

.... and leaving for trials, collection Michael Green

 

.... and from Harold Appleyard

.... and from Craig Andrews, loading in Australia as GLOBAL HOPE

 

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