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LYRIA (2)

Submitted by Kees Helder on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 14:57

About

Completed 1976 as "LYRIA" for STUK. 1984 sold to Egatite Panama and renamed Louisiana. 1988 sold to Bergesen Norway and renamed Berge Boss. 21-6-2003 arrived Xinhui China for scrap.

Also known as	Louisiana Berge Boss
IMO number	7359084
Call sign	GUYE
Construction number	L 60
Tonnage	315.700 ton
Beam	57m
Length overall	355m
Year of construction	1976
Year of renaming/broken up	2003
Service for Shell	1976 to 1984
Cargo	Crude
Class	L-class 270.000 / 315.000 ton
Flag state	Great Britain
Home port	London
Manager	Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers U.K.
Shipyard	Odense Staalskibvaerft Lindo Denmark
Status	Sailing / Sailed for Anglo-Saxon / Shell Tankers UK / STUK

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Sailors

Name	Job	Period	Details
Eric John Rowlands	deck boy	1976 to 1977	maiden voyage
Andrew Price	3rd mate	1976 to 1977
Mike Ryan	deck cadet/3rd mate	1976 to 1981
John Peter Hunter	5th engineer	1976 to 1977
Ian Stretton Walker	chief officer	1977 to 1978
Peter Copeland	2nd mate	1977
Paul Hill	seaman	1977 to 1978	efficient deckhand/seaman
Michael Spike Sharp	grade 1 seaman	1977
Iain Mccoll	chief steward	1977
Peter Copeland	3rd mate	1977
Dave Saltner	catering boy	1977 to 1978
John Ross 2	chief officer	1977
Michael Spike Sharp	grade 1 seaman	1978
Simon Maasz	cadet	1978
Guy Pracy	deck cadet	1978
Michael Marsh	2nd engineer	1978
Doug Macintyre	deck cadet	1978
Robert T. Dunbar	2nd mate	1978
Dudley Murr	deck	1978	ab deck
Graham Wright	Fourth Engineer	1978	1st trip 4/E
Gary Noakes	deck cadet	1979 to 1980
David Beeston	2nd engineer	1979 to 1980
David E. Byrne	deck cadet	1979 to 1980
Robin Dunn	3/0	1979 to 1980
Raymond Laws	chef kok	1979
Brian Dobson	deck cadet	1979
Andy Sitton	galley boy	1979 to 1980	1st trip
John Murphy	5th engineer	1979 to 1980
Eamon Mullin	3rd mate	1980 to 1983	Two trips
Joseph Zerafa	wife	1980
Joseph Zerafa	3rd mate	1980
Doug Macintyre	deck cadet	1980
Mike Hamer	deck cadet	1980
Stephen Osborne	deck cadet	1980
Andrew Yapp	deck cadet	1980
Eric Cordiner	mg 1	1980
Philip Malcolm Balfe	able seaman	1980 to 1981
Brian Graham	chief engineer	1980
David Wilson	chief steward	1980	1st trip
Raymond Laws	chief steward	1981
Anthony Geeves	sg1a	1981
Andrew Reilly	deck cadet	1981
Joe Mally	chief petty officer	1981
Danny Liddington	efficient deckhand	1981 to 1982
Graham Gould	5th engineer	1981 to 1982
Adrian Cook	catering boy/galley boy	1981
Robert Bob Flux	grade 1 seaman	1981	seaman 1 edh
Sean Pulford	assistant steward	1981 to 1982
Ian Stretton Walker	chief officer	1981
Paul Hagan	gp 1	1981 to 1982
Alan Burns	radio officer	1981 to 1982
David Cuders	engineer cadet	1982
Julian Shears	assistant steward	1982
David Pollard	junior catering rating	1982
Alex Reid	chief officer	1982
Peter Graham	chief officer	1982 to 1983
Geoffrey Forster 2	chef kok	1982
Steve Kelly	engineer cadet/5th engineer	1982	Joined Rotterdam, paid off LOOP
Paul Crouch	5th engineer	1982
Garry Marshall	2nd cook	1982
Colin Redburn	assistant steward	1983
John Crackett	motorman	1983
David R. Byrne 2	po mechanic	1983
David Hopwood	pumpman	1983 to 1984
Alan Cheese	steward	1983 to 1984
Janet Taylor	passenger	1984	wife to laurence taylor engineer
Benjamin Adriano	2nd cook	1990 to 1991

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
03/25/2023 - 15:32	Martin McGrath	I was on the Lyria in 1978 when we went into Brest for a propellor change.
11/26/2012 - 02:41	Andy Sitton	Does anyone remember the incident at Cape Town, spring of 1980: Tying up to a floating pipeline several miles out, a steel hawser snapped and recoiled and hit - I think the second mate - with such force it completely destroyed his hard hat. If he hadn't been wearing it there's no way he could have survived. Who was that guy?
11/26/2012 - 02:20	Andy Sitton	Much tarring and feathering and so forth at the 'Crossing The Line' ceremony. I will always remember the exact wording on the certificate, prepared by one of the deck cadets to look like parchment but actually just a few layers of burnt paper :) "I, Neptune, being the true and rightful Monarch of all the oceans and of all the creatures that dwell therein hereby bestow The Freedom Of The Seven Seas upon that noble and gallant Mariner (yours truly), who has crossed that line called the Equstor, which divides our hemispheres. Let all who owe Me allegiance allow the above named to pass without let or hindrance in pursuit of that which is truly pleasing" Shortly after which we nearly destroyed the biggest jetty in the world at Ras-Al-Whatsisname when the pilot tried what looked like the VLCC equivalent of a handbrake turn. Took ages to go around and come back for another go, so I went for a swim up by the chimney, fell asleep on the metal deck in a hundred and god-knows-how-many degrees heat, woke up 30 hours later to be told "You boiled. You should be dead!" Ah, the days of being young and immortal. :)
02/02/2009 - 23:24	Eric John Rowlands	I joined the Lyria as a first trip deck boy(GP Boy)in Elsnore Denmark in November 1976.The Lyria was a new build, and I sailed on her maiden voyage from Denmark bound for the Persian Gulf. Her first ever port call was Las Palmas for some repairs. On completion she sailed for Kark Island for her first ever cargo for delivery in Rotterdam.
02/02/2009 - 23:24	Eric John Rowlands	I joined the Lyria as a first trip deck boy(GP Boy)in Elsnore Denmark in November 1976.The Lyria was a new build, and I sailed on her maiden voyage from Denmark bound for the Persian Gulf. Her first ever port call was Las Palmas for some repairs. On completion she sailed for Kark Island for her first ever cargo for delivery in Rotterdam.