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Ship: | SUEVIC | Arrived: | 23 July 1968 | Departed: | 19 August 1968 | Arrived 2: | 7 August 1969 | Departed 2: | 13 September 1969 | Career: | SUEVIC was a large refrigerated cargoship and was laid up in the River Blackwater at least twice.
In 1969 she arrived in the River from Southampton. Nolan Loveridge was a Junior Engineer on the SUEVIC during her stay and says a nucleus of mates and engineers remained on board during the visit. The motor lifeboat was given a makeshift canopy, renamed "African Queen" and made 4 trips a day into the jetty (the causeway) at West Mersea. Sundays there was an extra trip to take people to lunch at the pub in Bradwell-on-Sea.
From the Blackwater, the SUEVIC sailed for Rotterdam to be dry-docked and then loaded in London for New Zealand. See also www.shipsnostalgia.com.
SUEVIC was broken up Kaohsiung 6 Jun 1974
Read more about the SUEVIC in the Blackwater | Tonnage: | 13,587 gross | Built: | 1950 | Type: | Refrigerated ship | Owner: | Shaw Savill & Albion | LR/IMO Number: | 5343108 | Official No: | 183613 | ID | 5343108 |
| Above: SUEVIC in the River Blackwater August/September 1969. Union Castle boats are thought to be RICHMOND CASTLE and ROCHESTER CASTLE. Date: c September 1969. Source: Mersea Museum / Nolan Loveridge | | Above: "African Queen" slung up in falls - SUEVIC in the River Blackwater. Date: cAugust 1969. Source: Mersea Museum / Nolan Loveridge | | Above: "African Queen" at the Causeway, West Mersea - the motor lifeboat from S.S. SUEVIC. Date: August 1969. Source: Mersea Museum / Nolan Loveridge | | Above: Lifeboat from SUEVIC and the SCEPTRE at the Causeway, West Mersea Date: cAugust 1969. Source: Mersea Museum / Nolan Loveridge |
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