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MV Aureol
History
United Kingdom
NameMV Aureol
OwnerElder Dempster Lines Ltd.
Port of registryLiverpool,  UK
RouteLiverpool-Las Palmas-Bathurst(Banjul)-Freetown-Monrovia-Tema-Apapa. From 1972-74 UK departure port Southampton.
BuilderAlexander Stephen and Sons, Govan
Yard number629
Launched28 March 1951
CompletedOctober 1951
Maiden voyage3 November 1951
Out of service18 October 1974
IdentificationIMO number: 5030878
FateSold, November 1974
Panama
NameM/V Marianna VI
OwnerYiannis Latsis
Port of registryPanama  Panama
AcquiredNovember 1974
Fate
  • Laid up, February 1979
  • Scrapped, Alang, India, 2001
General characteristics
TypePassenger/cargo ocean liner
Tonnage
Length537 ft (164 m)
Beam70 ft (21 m)
Draught25 ft (7.6 m)
Installed power10,800bhp
Propulsion2 × 4-cylinder Doxford diesel engines, 2 shafts
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity
  • 329 passengers:
  • 253 first class
  • 76 cabin class
Crew145

MV Aureol was a mid-sized British ocean liner, originally put into service for Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool in 1951. She was constructed on the River Clyde in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons. At 537 feet long and measuring 14,083 gross register tons, Aureol had room for 329 passengers and carried 145 crew. She spent her entire Elder Dempster career on the UK-Lagos passenger cargo service. From 1951 to 1972 she sailed from Liverpool, but closure of the landing stage and the hope of better loadings led to her being transferred to Southampton (first departure 26 April 1972) for the last two years of her service.

Marianna VI laid up in Eleusis, 2000

Aureol arrived at Southampton at the end of her final Elder Dempster voyage on 18 October 1974. She was purchased by Greek oil tycoon Yiannis Latsis, and renamed Marianna VI after one of his daughters. In 1989 she was laid up at Eleusina and did not sail again until 2001, when she moved to the Indian port of Alang to be beached and broken up for scrap.

References

  1. ^ "Aureol". Clyde-built Ship Database. 2012. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "Aureol". shipspotting.com. 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Aureol Statistics". oceanlinermuseum.co.uk. 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  4. Kludas, Great Passenger Ships of the World Vol.5


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