Period of service with Booker Line

1,776

1911

1911-1917

Torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarine 15m SSW from Daunt's Rock, April 23rd 1917

2,316

1893

1912-1917

Ex Castillian Prince, bought from Prince Line in 1912. Torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarine, 180 m NW 1/2 N from Tory Island on June 12th 1917.

2,262

1896

1913-1922

Ex Granada, bought from the Trinidad Shipping and Trading Company  Limited in 1913. Sold in 1922 to the Hellenic Company of Maritime enterprises, Piraeus and renamed Attiki.

1,987

1924

1924-1941

Torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarine off the Jamaican coast on August 25th 1942.

2,379

1933

1933-1941

Torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarine in the North Atlantic on June 23rd 1941 while acting as a weather ship under charter to the Admiralty. To read a full account of the incident CLICK HERE

2,814

1946

1946-1963

Sold in 1963 to the Peninsular Shipping Co. Ltd. Hong Kong and renamed Greenford.

2,961

1949

1949-1963

Sold in 1963 to K.S. Potiamianos Greece, and renamed Aba Prince.

8,227

1961

1961-1978

Sold in 1978 to Transvenezuelan  Shipping Company Panama and renamed Caribbean Memories. View the builders interior photographs. taken at Smiths Dock in 1961.

5,417

1963

1963-1979

Sold in 1979 to Ermionis Companhia Naviera Panama, registered in Greece and renamed Katy. View one of the builders photographs. taken at Burntisland, Scotland in 1963.

4,469

1962

1963-1973

Ex-Johan Wessel. Chartered from J.H. Wessel's Kulforretning A/S, Drammen, Norway. Her charter was terminated in 1973 and returned to her owners, who sold her to Star Steamship S.A.L. Beirut and renamed Amira-K.

5,393

1967

1967-1979

Sold in 1979 to Qatar Navigation Company Qatar and renamed Al Amirah.

4,166

1961

1973-1978

Ex Eugenio, EX Helga Witt. Chartered from Cia de Nav Puerta Nueva Panama in 1973 to replace the Booker Valliance. Charter transferred in 1978 to Elinkamar  S.A. Panama and renamed Ambri.

4,129

1968

1974-1982

Ex Seahawk, ex Concordia Sea, ex Sea Viking, ex Sea Hawk,. Bought from They & Co Ltd, Singapore in 1974. Sold in 1982 to Star Steamship Soc, Beirut and renamed Fouad-K.

8,537

1972

1979-1983

Ex Sol Michel. Purchased in 1979 from Solstads Rederi A/S Skudenshavn of Norway. Sold in 1983 to the Government of Nauru an island in the South Pacific and renamed Eigugu.

8,311

1973

1979-1983

Ex Brageland. Purchased in 1979 from Solstads Rederi A/S Skudenshavn of Norway. Sold in 1983 to D'Amico Soc Di Nav Palermo and renamed Cielo Di Livorno.

8,537

1972

1979-1983

Ex Sol Neptun. Purchased in 1979 from Solstads Rederi A/S Skudenshavn of Norway. Sold in 1983 to D'Amico Soc Di Nav Palermo and renamed Cielo Di Trieste.

6,660

1965

1978-1980

Ex Tropic. Chartered in 1978 from Shaw Saville & Albion Line. Sold in 1980 to Saudi Arabian owners and renamed Arab Dabbor.

1958-1966

Built for Booker’s Guiana coastal trade.  Had a long hatch  >100ft. for carrying Greenheart logs.1963 Returned to U.K. and managed by S.William Coe (a Booker Subsidiary).  Chartered to Euromar Line for their service from Liverpool & Ardrossan  to N. Spanish ports.

1966 Sold Southern Line (Ken).  & renamed Southern Spray.

1950's

In the late 1950s Booker Line would charter a vessel for one round trip and this ship would replace the Amakura & Arakaka whilst they were dry-docked.  Moss Hutchison Line’s “Tabor” made one such voyage in the summer of 1958. At least one other Moss Hutchison ship, possibly the "Karnak" also made one of these voyages.