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ESSO WOOLSTON - IMO 5108780
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The 1958 Hessle built coastal tanker ESSO WOOLSTON is seen passing Portishead on 7th March 1967, exactly fifty years ago today, shortly after departing from Avonmouth with a full cargo of fuel oil bound for a terminal on the River Ely at Cardiff.
Sold in 1982 to Salvesen Offshore Services Ltd of Aberdeen, she was renamed KINBRACE and converted for use as a pollution control vessel.
Her fate is unclear. Miramar states that she was renamed LADY SANIYA in 2004 but arrived at a breaker's yard on 21st September of that year. The website link below does not report the renaming and says that she had arrived at Santander on 15th October 1985 for breaking:
http://www.aukevisser.nl/uk/id218.htm
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- Kinbrace (Until 2004 Sep)
- Esso Woolston (Until 1982)
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These ships were generally phased out of service in the late 1980s/early 1990s due to a change in legislation prohibiting the dumping of effluent at sea, so a scrap date of 1985 for this ship would seem to fit.
It appears that someone who updated the Register of Ships confused this ship with the former RFA coastal salvage vessel KINBRACE (IMO 5187346), and so now both ships appear in Miramar with the same later history.
The ex-RFA Kinbrace was sold commercially in April 1992 and spend some time supporting UN troops in Somalia, according to http://historicalrfa.org/rfa-kinbrace-ships-details
She was laid up in Ajman in 1998 where I stumbled across her, registered in Panama.
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