Pictures of Bathurst

[Petter Krogstad]

Hello
I'm looking for pictures of a ship that was build as War Alyssum (400feet) but sailed for Elder Line Ltd from 1920 and til 1933 under the name Bathurst.
She was later sold to Greece and renamed Kostis, later Diamantis and finally Tharros.
She sunk near Honningsvag in Norway in 1951.

Hope sombody out there can help me...

Petter Krogstad

e-mail: peter_pan_no@hotmail.com

[Doc Vernon]

Hello Peter K
Welcome to the site,hope we will see a lot more of you and some more posts!
Here is a little on that Ship,just in case you are interested!

Cheers
Kostis ex WAR ALYSSUM


http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20...Kostis-01.html

Bathurst

http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20...thurst-01.html

Single Ship Report for "1140610"IDNo: 1140610 Year: 1919
Name: BATHURST Keel:
Type: Cargo ship Launch Date: 20.2.19
Flag: GBR Date of completion: 26.3.19 -
Tons: 5253 Link: 1600
DWT: Yard No: 354
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 121.9 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 15.9 Builder: Harland & Wolff
Material of build: Location of yard: Greenock
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1T-9 -
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1951
-
Subsequent History:
[L as WAR ALYSSUM] - 33 KOSTIS - 39 DIAMANTIS - 50 THARROS

Disposal Data:
wrecked near Honningsvaag 29.11.51



War Alyssum A 5253 400 52.3 B11 3.19 Completed as BATHURST, British & African SN Co (Elder Dempster & Co), Liverpool; 1920 Elder Line Ltd;
1933 KOSTIS, B.E. Benierakis, Chalkis, Greece;
1939 DIAMANTIS, P.D. Pateras, Patras,
1950 THARROS, P.M. Ponticos & Z.E. Lemos, Patras.
29.11.51 aground near Honningsvaag, refloated but sank 11.12.51 in bad weather.

[Gulliver]

Well guys...adding my bit to this....
That picture of the Bathurst looks like the 1893 built one(pass/cargo) which was torpedoed on 30/5/17.
The picture of her as Kostis looks too new(think thats the 1944 built ex Arthur Stove-it wasn't called Kostis until 1955.)

So I suggest the following are correct:
The one below(cargo ship Bathurst)-blt.1918/9 )is from merseysideviews...from whom a larger version can be bought.
http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merchant%20Vessels/Elder%20Dempster/pages/Eer-Der%20017.htm
　
And....this one is of her as the Kostis(note its the same profile as the Bathurst above).This is the ex-Bathurst which was sold by Elder Dempster in 1933,and was eventually wrecked in 1951.

http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships/Old%20Ships%20K/slides/Kostis-02.html

Anybody agree or disagree?

Gulliver
　

[Tony Wilding1]

you are correct, later ship shown as a liberty ship, ,, first one too old by design, 2nd one on the nail. STORES.

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