| IMO number | 5378531 |
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| Call sign | MFFB |
| Construction number | 1403 |
| Tonnage | 29.648 ton |
| Beam | 26m |
| Length overall | 201m |
| Year of construction | 1950 |
| Year of renaming/broken up | 1971 |
| Service for Shell | 1950 to 1971 |
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Sailors
Anecdotes
| Date | Visitor | Anecdote |
|---|---|---|
| 10/07/2013 - 07:17 | John Chapman 1 |
Had a great time on Verena joined in Gothenberg as 5th eng first trip at sea in Oct70 and stayed until we took her to breakers in Spain in summer of 71. |
| 09/03/2013 - 22:34 | Howard Pownall |
Joined in Nynashamn January 1969. Apprentice accommodation was essentially big steel boxes welded on top of the aft accommodation. Beautifully cool in Sweden in the middle of winter and pleasantly warm up the Maracaibo Lakes in the middle of summer. Character building |
| 08/28/2013 - 17:16 | Brian Knight |
it was the worst ship i ever sailed on. |
| 08/20/2013 - 15:07 | Robert Ford |
i spent year on this ship with same crew 5 trips in all happy ship alround |
| 05/09/2011 - 21:50 | Brian Hogarth |
definitely the worst Shell vessel I ever sailed on even though I had my wife with me. I remember watching crude oil leaking through a corroded plate in the foredeck on route to BA (cement box repair) plus the 2 pumprooms were generally full of steam from leaking glands & on one occasion I declined to enter much to the annoyance of Noel Rafferty. |
| 03/16/2011 - 15:05 | David Read |
Who are you Jinxy 1927? I was on the Verena, finished my apprenticeship on her, when we went up to the Stanvac Japan after the terrible explosion on board her. We had been at Elephant Island in Bombay. I was on her for over ten months 1958/59. David Read |
| 08/25/2010 - 20:11 | Jinxy1927 |
my memory is not what it used to be/ but i,recolect being in bombay on the vereena when lying just ahead of the stanvac japan that left port a few hours before us just before we left the skipper received a signal that the stanvac japan had blown up when we sailed and reached her there wheras already an esso tanker and a cargo vessel standing by her i think that was october 1958 |
| 08/25/2010 - 20:11 | Jinxy1927 |
my memory is not what it used to be/ but i,recolect being in bombay on the vereena when lying just ahead of the stanvac japan that left port a few hours before us just before we left the skipper received a signal that the stanvac japan had blown up when we sailed and reached her there wheras already an esso tanker and a cargo vessel standing by her i think that was october 1958 |
| 07/29/2010 - 21:47 | Bob Young |
I am trying to trace or run down any information about Andy Fisher who I believe was killed in an accident on the SS Verena in the late 50s or eary sixties. As far as I can recall he was some sort of Artificer or similar. He was engaged to my sister Dorothy Young now deceased. Thanking you in anticipation and hope. |
| 04/05/2010 - 23:18 | Baird Ferguson |
Anyone else who was on board the Verena for the trip from Tranmere to Curacao in 1966? The crew cook died and his body put ashore in Cork. Then we had 3 fires started deliberately between Cork and Curacao.First one in the Centre Castle , next one on the Aft accommodation boat deck laundry and the 3rd one in the engineers alleyway sailing up the cut in Willemstad.Turned out it was a first trip 5th Engineer who wanted off. He had just come out of prison for arson. |
| 02/02/2009 - 12:14 | Christopher Grindle |
I remember joining the Verena in Nynashamn, Sweden as a first trip fiver, on the 23rd march 1968. I was housed in a porta-cabin lashed to the funnel deck as we were carrying so many extra engineers. I spent the next two and a half weeks in the air heater of one of the main boilers unblocking air heater tubes by hand .Lucky for me Shell in their wisdom decided to pay me and another fiver off in Cardon , Lake Maracaibo and I then spent five and a half months on the Venassa . |
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