NORRISIA (1) | Helderline.com

Submitted by Kees Helder on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 13:53

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Completed 1944 as "NORRISIA" for STUK. 5-2-1960 arrived Spezia for scrap.

IMO number	1169753
Call sign	GDPJ
Construction number	1194
Tonnage	12.246 ton
Beam	18m
Length overall	147m
Year of construction	1944
Year of renaming/broken up	1960
Service for Shell	1944 to 1960
Cargo	Crude and white oil products
Class	N-class 12.000 ton
Flag state	Great Britain
Home port	London
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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Sailors

Name	Job	Period	Details
William Loughlin	master	1948 to 1950
Billy Nethercott	5th engineer, 4th engineer	1949 to 1950
Jacob Smittenberg	greaser	1949 to 1960	f/greaser
John Thompson Robson	apprentice	1952 to 1953
Peter Taylor	able seaman	1952 to 1953
Charles H.stedall	efficient deckhand	1953 to 1954
Bill Grant	deck apprentice	1953 to 1954
Ivor Tucker	junior ordinary seaman	1953
Corry Lyttle	radio officer	1954
John Howard Mumford	2nd mate	1955 to 1956
Colin C. Edwards	deck apprentice	1956 to 1957	1st trip
Richard Frank H...	deck apprentice	1956 to 1957
Harold Aspinall	4th engineer	1957 to 1947
Simon Sugrue	deck apprentice	1957 to 1958
Ian Stretton Walker	deck apprentice	1957
Neil W. Ogilvie	5th engineer	1957

Anecdotes

Date	Visitor	Anecdote
07/17/2023 - 14:19	Kees Helder	Captain W.C. Loughlin, Chief Officer O.R. Townsend, 2nd officer J.E. Palmer, Radio Officer R. Denton, 3rd Engineer J. Cowdill, 5th Engineer G. Boyter, 5th Engineer B. Johnston, 4th Engineer P. Hitchen? 3rd Officer H.Heckett, 5th engineer J.W. Duncan, 2nd Engineer A. Martin, Chief engineer John Armstrong. This was on a voyage departing from Falmouth on the 16th January to Gibraltar 12th April 1948. Charles Loughlin (sun Captain)
05/05/2022 - 10:30	richard joyce	My Father Ronald Joyce Was Chief steward on this ship does anyone remember him
05/30/2015 - 11:59	Christopher Joh...	I was senior apprentice on board mv norrisia cica 1957. What an experience! We sailed from the UK loaded with aviation fuel and other white spirits bound for Norkoping and Stockholm. At maximum draft approaching Norkoping the pilot dropped anchor to hold the ship's head whilst making a tight turn round an island. The boat overrode the anchor and it pierced the bottom plates. A huge slick of purple aviation fuel poured out and I was sent urgently to the galley to tell them to extinguish all naked flames with a similar instruction passed to all hands. We limped in to our berth and air pumps were used to strip out the remaining cargo in the damaged tank. A diver was sent down to assess the damage and we were ordered to proceed to Stockholm and then return to Barry for drydock. As soon as we left Stockholm I was ordered by the First Mate to wash tanks and gas free the vessel utilizing the other apprentices on board. Running down the North Sea a seaman was reported missing when called for his watch. The ship was searched without success and the boat turned round onto a reciprocal course to steam back to the position where he had last been seen. Man overboard messages were also sent but there was no trace of the missing seaman. As we neared the UK the First Mate asked me to check tank 5 port for gas and as this tank was under the midship accmmadation it had to be vented by steam extractors. I took a colleague with me and lowered the sampling tube of the explosimeter into the void. A small amount of gas was found and as the tube was pulled up the lower half became undone and fell to the bottom. I went down to retrieve it and as I reached the bottom of the ladder I looked down and saw what I thought to be the outline of a leg I gingerly extended my leg and felt something solid and knew I had found the missing man. I reported to the bridge and the bosun was sent with a recovery team to get the body which was lashed to a stretcher and placed in the ship's hospital. Everybody got a tot of rum except me. On entering the lock at Barry the pilot misjudged the boat's speed and though we tried to check her with the fore spring this snapped like an elastic band and the bow hit the lock gate. I paid off in Barry after giving evidence at the Coroner's Inquest.