mv GLENFALLOCH

mv GLENFALLOCH
built by Fairfield Govan,
Yard No 813
Engines by Sulzer Brothers Ltd, Winterthur
Last Name:
QING HE CHENG (1977)
Port of Registry: Shanghai
Propulsion: Oil engine 2SCSA 9cy (900x1550mm) 18000bhp 20 knots / 2 x Aux Boilers supplying steam at 120lbs / Generating Plant 3 x 500kW@220VDC / Heavy Fuel Oil
Launched: Tuesday, 03/07/1962
Built: 1963
Ship Type: Motorship
Ship's Role: Cargo reefer
Tonnage: 11537 grt | 6774net | 11445dwt
Length: 543 feet 9 ins
Breadth: 74 feet 8 ins
Draught: 29 feet 8.5 ins
Owner History:
Glen Line Ltd, London.
1977 China Ocean Shipping Co, Shanghai.
1994 Shanghai Ocean Shipping Co (COSCO Shanghai).
1999 Cosco Container Lines, Shanghai.
Status: Dead - 2002

Remarks: O.N. 304437. IMO 5404550. Call sign GJKA (later BOZX).
23 Jan 1963 registered London.
05/2002 Deleted. Vessel existence unknown.This thwarted attempts to bring either she or Glenogle back to the UK for preservation in the former India Dock area in London.

Photos supplied by the late Matt Scott Collection, John Ward~McQuaid and Alan Eadie.
Previous updates by Colin Campbell, Gavin Stewart
Additional information from Joe McMillan Collection.
Previous update by Bruce Allan

Last updated: by Paul Strathdee from the original records by Stuart Cameron


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