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Name: WILLIAM LAMEY
Launched: 25/03/1959
Completed: 03/06/1959
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd, Gateshead
Yard Number: 91
Dimensions: 166grt, 98.3 x 26.2 x 10.6ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 4SCSA, Blackstone ERS6 type, 6cyl (8.75 x 11.5in), 980bhp
Engines by: Lister, Blackstone Marine Ltd, Dursley
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 301307
History:
03/06/1959 James Burness & Sons Ltd, (JH Lamey Ltd, managers), Liverpool
1962 JH Lamey Ltd, Liverpool
07/09/1970 Renamed WAPPING
1975 Alexandra Towing Co Ltd, Liverpool
1985 Atlantic Tugs Maritime Co, Piraeus; renamed THEODOROS I
2002 Star Bunkering Maritime Co, Piraeus; renamed AGIOS RAFAIL
2003 Renamed FOX I
2006 Serenity Shipping, Marshall Islands
2006 Sea Ripple Shipping SA, Monrovia
10/2008 Andreas Loizides, Limassol; renamed ANDREAS L
2019 P Kakas, Rhodes; renamed ANDREAS
04/06/2020 Broken up
Comments: 1959: James Burness controlled the shipbuilder
1968: Company control acquired by Alexandra Towing Co Ltd
12/2017: Caught smuggling drugs on a passage to Malta and arrested
2018: Under arrest at Agia Galini for being used by the drug smugglers
04/06/2020: Arrived at Aliaga for breaking up by Ege Celik GS


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is courtesy of Cliff Ollerhead

Above photo is courtesy of Cliff Ollerhead

Above photo taken July 1960 is copyright of Graeme Turner

Above photo is copyright of Malcolm Donnelly

Above photo as WAPPING is courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photo as WAPPING is courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photo as WAPPING is copyright of Cliff Ollerhead

Above photo as THEODOROS I is courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photo as AGIOS RAFAIL is copyright of Peter J Fitzpatrick

Above photo as FOX I is courtesy of Piet Van Damme

Above photo as ANDREAS L is courtesy of Chris Jones

Above photo as ANDREAS L taken at Limassol on 24/10/2014 is copyright of Michael Green

Above photo as ANDREAS L taken at Limassol in October 2015 is copyright of Peter J Fitzpatrick

Above photo as ANDREAS, at Agia Galin on Crete 10/04/2018, is copyright of Peter J Fitzpatrick

Above photo as ANDREAS, at Aliaga 04/06/2020, is copyright of Selim San - courtesy of Peter J Fitzpatrick