STV Royston Grange
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The STV Royston Grange was a British cargo liner which was destroyed by fire after a collision in the Rio de la Plata on 11 May 1972. She was the first British ship to be lost with all hands since World War II. She had been built in 1959 and was owned by the Houlder Line.
Contents[hide]
1 Disaster
2 Aftermath
3 Casualties
3.1 Officers
3.2 Crew
3.3 Passengers
4 References
5 External link
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[edit] Disaster
The 7,113 ton Royston Grange, carrying 61 crew, twelve passengers (including six women and a 5-year old child), and an Argentinian pilot, was bound from Buenos Aires to London with a cargo of chilled and frozen beef and butter. As she traversed the Punta Indio Channel, 35 miles from Montevideo, Uruguay, in dense fog at 5.40 a.m. she collided with the Liberian-registered tanker Tien Chee, carrying 20,000 tons of crude oil. The Tien Chee immediately burst into flames and a series of explosions rapidly carried the flames to the Royston Grange, which burned particularly hot due to the cargo of butter and the oil escaping from the Tien Chee. Most of the crew and passengers were asleep. Although the Royston Grange did not sink, every person on board was killed in the fire, most of them probably by carbon monoxide fumes emanating from the refrigeration tanks, which burst in the collision.
The Tien Chee also caught on fire and ran aground, blocking all traffic in and out of the port of Buenos Aires. Eight of her forty crew, who were mostly Chinese, also died, but the remainder (and the Argentinian pilot) managed to abandon ship and were picked up by cutters of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
[edit] Aftermath
The remains of the victims, mostly little more than ashes and charred bones (much of the flesh having been stripped from the bones by the hoses used by Uruguayan tugs to put out the fire), were buried in six urns in two communal graves in the British cemetery in Montevideo on 20 May 1972 by the Rt. Reverend Jonas Ewing White, O.B.E, in the presence of 130 relatives who had been flown out to Uruguay by the ship's owners. A memorial service was held at All Hallows-by-the-Tower in London on 8 June.
The report of the Liberian enquiry into the disaster concluded that the master and pilot of the Tien Chee, in an attempt to get enough water for her deep draught, had probably been navigating too far to the south of the channel and had pushed the Royston Grange onto the shelf that bordered it. The British ship had bounced off and into the tanker. The officers of the Royston Grange, it concluded, were probably not to blame, although there may have been some human error in attempting to avoid the collision. The master and pilot of the Tien Chee probably should not have entered the channel in the first place in the tidal conditions prevailing at the time. The report also criticised the lack of maintenance of the channel.
The Royston Grange was towed to Montevideo, and then to Spain, where she was scrapped. The Tien Chee was also scrapped.
[edit] Casualties
All British unless otherwise noted.
[edit] Officers
George Boothby, 55, Master
Colin Craddock, Chief Officer
Stewart Third, Second Officer
David Lewis, Extra Second Officer
Paul Hambly, Deck Cadet
David Hamilton, Deck Cadet
Philip Harrison, Deck Cadet
Hugh Watkins, Deck Cadet
John Barter, First Radio Officer
Gary Johnson, 20, Second Radio Officer (his first voyage after qualifying)
Terence Teppett, Chief Engineer
David Revell, Second Engineer
John Kincaid, Third Engineer
Brian Thomis, Fourth Engineer
Colin Nolan, Fifth Engineer
Robert Lyon, Junior Engineer
Clive Weatherburn, Junior Engineer
James Craddock, Engineer Cadet
Nicholas Finch, Engineer Cadet
George Jeary, Chief Refrigeration Engineer
Ronald Platt, Extra Chief Refrigeration Engineer
Andrew James, First Electrician
Stephen Hartnell, Second Electrician
William Hagan, Catering Officer
James Flower, Surgeon
[edit] Crew
Jacob Dekker, Boatswain (Dutch)
William Townsend, Boatswain's Mate
Ronald Williams, Carpenter
Brian Jones, Senior Seaman
Andrew Adams, Able Seaman
Leonard Bruce, Able Seaman
John Burden, Able Seaman (American)
John Hurley, Able Seaman
Thomas McClelland, Able Seaman
Alexander MacDonald, Able Seaman
Eugene MacDonald, Able Seaman
John Macritchie, Able Seaman
Ernest Walsh, Able Seaman
Arthur Furrand, Deck Hand
Stephen Brookes, Junior Seaman
Michael Hawley, 17, Deck Boy
David Hullis, Deck Boy
George Morris, Engineroom Storekeeper
David Miller, Greaser
John Thearle, Greaser
Reginald Watkinson, Greaser
Carlton Davis, Fire and Water Attendant
James Fairweather, Fire and Water Attendant
Stanley Tracey, Fire and Water Attendant (New Zealand)
Peter Wright, Chief Cook
Henry Watkinson, Second Cook
James McIntyre, Baker
Lawrence Bassant, Catering Boy
Graham Edwards, Catering Boy
Roy Mills, Second Steward
Denis Beverley, Assistant Steward
Herbert Collingham, Assistant Steward
Peter Harvey, Assistant Steward
Raymond Lee, Assistant Steward
David Potterton, Assistant Steward
James MacCulloch, Messman
[edit] Passengers
Harold Bateman
Donald Campbell
Jean Campbell
Jan Craddock, 22, wife of Chief Officer Colin Craddock (they had been married for four months) (Australian)
Almut Dein (West German)
Lother Dein (West German)
Teresa Lilian Hagan, daughter of Catering Officer William Hagan
Valentine Hagan, wife of Catering Officer William Hagan
Rosa Leach
Grace Puhl
John Treharne
Margarita Treharne (Argentinian)
[edit] References
The Times
[edit] External link
Photographs of the Royston Grange before and after the collision
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV_Royston_Grange"
Categories: Maritime incidents in 1972 Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
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The STV Royston Grange was a British cargo liner which was destroyed by fire after a collision in the Rio de la Plata on 11 May 1972. She was the first British ship to be lost with all hands since World War II. She had been built in 1959 and was owned by the Houlder Line.
Contents[hide]
1 Disaster
2 Aftermath
3 Casualties
3.1 Officers
3.2 Crew
3.3 Passengers
4 References
5 External link
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[edit] Disaster
The 7,113 ton Royston Grange, carrying 61 crew, twelve passengers (including six women and a 5-year old child), and an Argentinian pilot, was bound from Buenos Aires to London with a cargo of chilled and frozen beef and butter. As she traversed the Punta Indio Channel, 35 miles from Montevideo, Uruguay, in dense fog at 5.40 a.m. she collided with the Liberian-registered tanker Tien Chee, carrying 20,000 tons of crude oil. The Tien Chee immediately burst into flames and a series of explosions rapidly carried the flames to the Royston Grange, which burned particularly hot due to the cargo of butter and the oil escaping from the Tien Chee. Most of the crew and passengers were asleep. Although the Royston Grange did not sink, every person on board was killed in the fire, most of them probably by carbon monoxide fumes emanating from the refrigeration tanks, which burst in the collision.
The Tien Chee also caught on fire and ran aground, blocking all traffic in and out of the port of Buenos Aires. Eight of her forty crew, who were mostly Chinese, also died, but the remainder (and the Argentinian pilot) managed to abandon ship and were picked up by cutters of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
[edit] Aftermath
The remains of the victims, mostly little more than ashes and charred bones (much of the flesh having been stripped from the bones by the hoses used by Uruguayan tugs to put out the fire), were buried in six urns in two communal graves in the British cemetery in Montevideo on 20 May 1972 by the Rt. Reverend Jonas Ewing White, O.B.E, in the presence of 130 relatives who had been flown out to Uruguay by the ship's owners. A memorial service was held at All Hallows-by-the-Tower in London on 8 June.
The report of the Liberian enquiry into the disaster concluded that the master and pilot of the Tien Chee, in an attempt to get enough water for her deep draught, had probably been navigating too far to the south of the channel and had pushed the Royston Grange onto the shelf that bordered it. The British ship had bounced off and into the tanker. The officers of the Royston Grange, it concluded, were probably not to blame, although there may have been some human error in attempting to avoid the collision. The master and pilot of the Tien Chee probably should not have entered the channel in the first place in the tidal conditions prevailing at the time. The report also criticised the lack of maintenance of the channel.
The Royston Grange was towed to Montevideo, and then to Spain, where she was scrapped. The Tien Chee was also scrapped.
[edit] Casualties
All British unless otherwise noted.
[edit] Officers
George Boothby, 55, Master
Colin Craddock, Chief Officer
Stewart Third, Second Officer
David Lewis, Extra Second Officer
Paul Hambly, Deck Cadet
David Hamilton, Deck Cadet
Philip Harrison, Deck Cadet
Hugh Watkins, Deck Cadet
John Barter, First Radio Officer
Gary Johnson, 20, Second Radio Officer (his first voyage after qualifying)
Terence Teppett, Chief Engineer
David Revell, Second Engineer
John Kincaid, Third Engineer
Brian Thomis, Fourth Engineer
Colin Nolan, Fifth Engineer
Robert Lyon, Junior Engineer
Clive Weatherburn, Junior Engineer
James Craddock, Engineer Cadet
Nicholas Finch, Engineer Cadet
George Jeary, Chief Refrigeration Engineer
Ronald Platt, Extra Chief Refrigeration Engineer
Andrew James, First Electrician
Stephen Hartnell, Second Electrician
William Hagan, Catering Officer
James Flower, Surgeon
[edit] Crew
Jacob Dekker, Boatswain (Dutch)
William Townsend, Boatswain's Mate
Ronald Williams, Carpenter
Brian Jones, Senior Seaman
Andrew Adams, Able Seaman
Leonard Bruce, Able Seaman
John Burden, Able Seaman (American)
John Hurley, Able Seaman
Thomas McClelland, Able Seaman
Alexander MacDonald, Able Seaman
Eugene MacDonald, Able Seaman
John Macritchie, Able Seaman
Ernest Walsh, Able Seaman
Arthur Furrand, Deck Hand
Stephen Brookes, Junior Seaman
Michael Hawley, 17, Deck Boy
David Hullis, Deck Boy
George Morris, Engineroom Storekeeper
David Miller, Greaser
John Thearle, Greaser
Reginald Watkinson, Greaser
Carlton Davis, Fire and Water Attendant
James Fairweather, Fire and Water Attendant
Stanley Tracey, Fire and Water Attendant (New Zealand)
Peter Wright, Chief Cook
Henry Watkinson, Second Cook
James McIntyre, Baker
Lawrence Bassant, Catering Boy
Graham Edwards, Catering Boy
Roy Mills, Second Steward
Denis Beverley, Assistant Steward
Herbert Collingham, Assistant Steward
Peter Harvey, Assistant Steward
Raymond Lee, Assistant Steward
David Potterton, Assistant Steward
James MacCulloch, Messman
[edit] Passengers
Harold Bateman
Donald Campbell
Jean Campbell
Jan Craddock, 22, wife of Chief Officer Colin Craddock (they had been married for four months) (Australian)
Almut Dein (West German)
Lother Dein (West German)
Teresa Lilian Hagan, daughter of Catering Officer William Hagan
Valentine Hagan, wife of Catering Officer William Hagan
Rosa Leach
Grace Puhl
John Treharne
Margarita Treharne (Argentinian)
[edit] References
The Times
[edit] External link
Photographs of the Royston Grange before and after the collision
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV_Royston_Grange"
Categories: Maritime incidents in 1972 Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
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