The tanker 'British Resolution'?

Well now I feel stupid, it turns out that my merchy friend is already here (hi neptune), though the confussion comes from him using a new name.

She’s not that big, a very standard VLCC, when you meet them, they always look the same, you can say “she’s 330m long” and won’t be further than 10m off… All same length,same beam, same draft, with some exceptions of course. The funniest being the King Alexander, which is 80m broad!!!
I guess when you’re next to one in a CG Cutter, they are indeed big, certainly when they’re in ballast, which was the case I suppose?

Back in 82-83, when I was in the coast guard, we rescued the crew of the Sailing vessel ‘Windermere’ from some pretty heavy seas and took their vessel under tow….we could’nt keep their crew on board our ship for the rest of the patrol so we handed them off to the ‘British Resolution’ on her way to the east coast of the US….some PRETTY HAIRY stuff trying to get them up a boatswain’s ladder in heavy seas , a couple of our guys got dunked by the roll of the tanker and we coulda lost them (take into account this was done at night in about 30 foot seas!), but we did safely transfer them all to the tanker and we turned over the boat to an inland tug 2 days later or so….nothing too thrilling, but I never got a REAL good look at the ‘Resolution’ , as it was only at night….but she looked to be a MONSTER of a tanker…as indeed she was! Now it appears neither her or my old ship survived….

Mark

The site Knocka mentioned is right. I know the author of it and the information on most of the site comes from Lloyd’s Register itself. They know pretty well what happens to ships. They always give disks to the ships classed by them with all the information on other ships under their classification. Nice info.

So Corsair, what happened when you met this one?

bare with me on this one guys, i have a merchy friend who might know something about her, I’ll ask him and get back to you on it. It looks like one of the ones he’s been sailing on recently of the “Europa Group”

British Resolution

Built 1974, been broken up, but no date available.

Listed as INACTIVE here: http://www.e-vrp.com/Vessels.asp?PlanNum=424&Orderby=Status,Vessel_name&PageSize=

She’s been demolished!

British Resolution

Built 1974, been broken up, but no date available.