LATIA (3) ex. OLYMPIC BANNER

Submitted by Kees Helder on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 13:06

About

Completed 1972 as Olympic Banner for Olympic Maritime. 1990 sold to STUK and renamed "LATIA". 17-3-1995 arrived Alang for scrap.

Also known as	Olympic Banner
IMO number	7229289
Call sign	MSLB9
Construction number	1685
Tonnage	268.792 ton
Beam	53m
Length overall	345m
Year of construction	1972
Year of renaming/broken up	1995
Service for Shell	1990 to 1995
Cargo	Crude
Class	L-class 270.000 / 315.000 ton
Flag state	Isle of Man
Home port	Douglas
Manager	Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers U.K.
Shipyard	Harland & Wolff Shipyard Belfast
Status	Sailing / Sailed for Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers UK / STUK

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Permalink Submitted by Geoff Donnelly on Wed, 04/16/2025 - 17:45

Sailors

Name	Job	Period	Details
Howard James Morris	sparky	1975 to 1978
Simon Peart	deck cadet	1975
Philip Webster	radio officer	1975
Kevin Ramsden	deck cadet	1979
Mohamad Tohir Laisa	able seaman (grade 2)	1980
Fortanier Rob	4th engineer	1982
Krik Parrel	3rd engineer	1982
David Rayfield	master	1990 to 1991
Malcolm Freeman	cook steward	1991
Robin Campbell-...	chief engineer officer	1992
Stephen Spenser	3rd mate	1993
Chris Renton	2nd mate	1993 to 1994
Andrew Salt Thesalts	3rd engineer	1993 to 1994
Peter Bolt	4th engineer	1993
Andy Stewart 1	4th engineer	1993
Robert Rotheram...	cook steward	1993 to 1994
Keith Farren	4th engineer	1993 to 1994
Robin Campbell-...	chief engineer officer	1994 to 1995	2 consecutive tours then to scrap at Alang.
Geoff Donnelly	captain (commanding officer)	1994 to 1995	Scrapped her on 19 march 1995 at alang, india

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
04/16/2025 - 17:45	Geoff Donnelly	The posts on the Shell Tankers (UK) Facebook page in April 2005 by John Evans and Sean Currie and comments from Garry Coull brought back memories of the awful Latia (3) being run up the beach at Alang, Gujarat, on 19 March 1995. This was the ship where, the story has it, I lost two anchors, which is utter bullsh*t. It was one anchor TWICE (not a lot of people have done that), and it was not a difficult trick on the former Olympic Banner. The first time was at Fujairah and, as we were not totally brainless, we marked the spot so the anchor could be recovered. The second time it broke out in 4500 metres of Inidan Ocean, despite the multiple extra wire restraints we had on the stopper and the cable itself. And just for fun, the bitter end put a whopping great hole in the foredeck plating, making the focsle less that watertight. After a shore team came on to fix the hole, we went to Rotterdam to part discharge and to get a replacement port anchor. Then to Shellhaven, where a passing ship's surge caused a poop deck aft spring winch to collapse into the steering flat. Then to Las Palmas for repairs. While tank cleaing, the C/O, my excellent friend Chris Snape, discovered a mighty big crack in the centre girder keel plate of one of the tanks. We loaded one more cargo after repairs, discharged in Durban and then cleaned for scrapping the damned thing. The whole trip was a nightmare. The 2/E had an accident when dropping a boiled kettle into his rigger boot, a 5/E broke his arm (deliberately, we thought, so he could get off), a sea valve in the E/R broke so that sea water was coming in at full bore to fill the E/R, just to name a few incidents. Running the vessel up the beach at Alang should have been an incident that brought a little sadness. It did when we saw the conditions for the shore workers, but scrapping that vessel was actually a happy day for more than just me.