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EAGLE OIL & SHIPPING -  San Ambrosio

3/5/2013

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Another picture from my Grandad's collection, this time the Eagle Oil & Shipping Companies 7,410 ton tanker San Ambrosio which was built on the Tyne and completed in April 1935 by Hawthorn, Leslie and Co (Yard No.593).

Registered in London and of steel construction she was 446ft long, had a beam of 60.4ft  with a single screw giving a speed of 12.0 knots.

She was broken up in Preston in October 1957. 

My Grandad served on this vessel as an able bodied seaman from September 1949 to 20 December 1949 boarding in Manchester after serving on the Newcastle registered SS Clydesfield and eventually leaving the ship in Sunderland.

The plaque at the bottom of the photograph says ' Welcome to the San Ambrosio on her safety voyage to Lagos Nigeria, British West Africa, Sunday 5 November 1949

I am going to have to find a better way of reproducing these old photographs, they are just so shiny!
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John
24/6/2013 06:30:24 am

Hi, my father served aboard this ship in 1949 too. However he served from mid June to mid August, just before your grandad joined. Thanks for posting the picture. I can't wait to show it to Dad. I'm sure it will bring back some happy memories. Cheers.

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john whitehead
25/4/2014 04:08:21 pm

I have a mahogany cupboard from the Engineers Mess on the San Ambrosio (it's written on the back of one of the drawers). I have used it as a workbench for many years.

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Philip Armstrong
29/6/2014 04:46:12 am

My late dad JImmy Armstrong was fourth? Engineer on the San Ambrosio about this time. Dont know a great deal more

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Thomas Rodger link
3/7/2014 02:38:47 am

My late father Daniel Rodger served as a fireman on this vessel in December 1943 . He was on an artic convoy taking fuel to Murmansk Russia . He was involved in the battle of North Cape , and witnessed the sinking of the German heavy cruiser Scharnhorst .

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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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