Empire Calshot
''Argobeam'' was a cargo ship which was built in 1945 as ''Empire Calshot'' for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1946 she was sold and renamed ''Derrycunihy''. A further sale in 1952 saw her renamed ''Argobeam''. In August 1955 an engine room fire left her listing 40° to port and she was abandoned. She was salvaged, repaired and sold, being renamed ''Parkgate''. In 1960 she was sold to Panama and renamed ''Panagos'', serving until scrapped in 1968. Description The ship was built by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, as yard number 289. She was launched on 10 July 1945 and completed in November. The ship was long, with a beam of and a depth of . She had a GRT of 7,130 and a NRT of 4,860. She was propelled by a two-stroke, single cycle single action diesel engine which had three cylinders of diameter by stroke. History ''Empire Calshot'' was built for the MoWT. She was operated under the management of H Hogarth & Sons Ltd. ''Empire Ca ...
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Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company was a shipbuilder and repairer in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland that was founded in 1918. In 1969 it was taken over by Robb-Caledon Shipbuilders, which in turn was nationalised in 1977 as part of British Shipbuilders. In the 1970s the Burntisland yard switched from shipbuilding to prefabricating modules of superstructure for offshore oil platforms, but orders were intermittent and by the 1980s the yard was largely idle. In 1990 new owners returned the yard to production as Burntisland Fabrications or BiFab, resuming the manufacture of superstructure modules for oil platforms. Under a management buyout in 2001 the Burntisland yard returned to being an independent company. Founding and early years Brothers Amos Ayre and Wilfrid Ayre founded Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. in 1918 as a First World War emergency shipyard. Its yard at Burntisland West Dock had four berths and capacity to build ships up to long and up to beam. However, until the 19 ...
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