Collier Pompey Power

[Mathieu van den Bosch]

Hi.

Attached a photo of the former Pompey Power being under towage. This vessel is owned by an association who tries to save her and make a museum vessel. The present name is Hamen and has been layed up in Sweden for about 16 years. The plan is to bring the vessel to a shipyard in Danmark to see what the condition of the hull is.
Are there any other colliers alive in the UK?

Best regards,

Mathieu.

[Tony Morcom]

Welcome to our site Mathieu. Hopefully you will have a long and enjoyable stay with us.

[Tony Frost]

One of the first British built ships to have A.C.(Aternating Current)

[Tony Wilding]

She is certainly in a bad condition, looks ready for the scrap yard, ?

[Gulliver]

s.s. POMPEY POWER (O.N. 182724) 1,428grt completed 1/49 as Yard No. 394 by
P.Austin & Son : Wear Dock,Sunderland

POMPEY POWER.jpg

1949: Delivered to British Electricity Authority, Portsmouth,(ordered by Portsmouth Corporation) as POMPEY POWER.
1954 Owners retitled Central Electricity Authority Portsmouth

1958 Owners retitled Central Electricity Generating Board Portsmouth

1960: Sold to Rederi A/S Orion, Drammen, Norway and renamed TANDIK.
1963: Sold to Hans Utkilen, Bergen, Norway and renamed HAMEN.
06.1963: New engine fitted. (Oil 2SA 9-cyl. 1.200 bhp, Wichmann.
25/1 1982 -20/5 1982: Laid up at Mastrevik, Norway for repair.
12/11 1985: Laid up at Kjellstraum, Norway.
08.1997: Sold to unknown Swedish owner to be broken up.
2002: Seen at Halle, Iddefjorden, Sweden being broken up.

HAMEN ex POMPEY POWER October 2007-Photo by Donald Macfie, SN.jpg

Thought to be subject of a preservation attempt as a museum ship.

Deleted from registry 2007/8



Current status unknown.

Her sister ship was POMPEY LIGHT,and both were built to carry coal from Blyth to Portsmouth. POMPEY LIGHT lasted with CEGB until 1968 and was then broken up by J.de Smedt ,Antwerp 10/68.

[robpage]

When I se preservation schemes I wince , because I think that the good hearten sincere people who want to so earnestly save a ship have no idea of the cost , so many of these schemes fail becaus e of teh cost of preserving and maintaining a museum ship , Maybe the government could stop financing despots and terrorists , and pay to save old ships , it would be a better use of the money

[Harald Lorentzen]

"Hamen" ex "Pompey Power" is to day at the old Hurum factory in the Oslofjord. The captains mess room and his cabin, office and bath room are nearly finish. But much more work to do with the ship.MS Hamen 2013 11.27 Tofte.jpg

[Keith at Tregenna]

Really cannot thank you enough for both originally informing us and the update, interested: hope you post more. Thanks

All the best of luck to those that do, many just say it will never happen, doing nothing themselves. These projects involve many people, time, hard work and commitment.

Thanks to those that bother, lest nothing would get done.

Every respect K.







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