Builders Plates

[The Old Ruminator]

Not only are builders plates nice items to find they also usually clean up well and could identify the wreck.They come in two types. The main plate is the builder of the hull. It could be fixed to the front of the bridge or on a well deck bulkhead. Usually it bears the builders yard number for the ship or in rare instances the ships name. If the machinery has been built and fitted by another supplier there may be another plate in the engine room. This often has the word " engineers ". These plates can be moulded or engraved. The latter is the rarest type. Like whistles they are rarely found by divers possibly because they are buried in debris.

Engine room plate from Apache , Weymouth.



Engraved engine room plate from the tanker Mira.



Engine room plate in situ.



From Frigga, Weymouth.



From Trito, Lyme Bay.




From Nyasaland, Lyme Bay.



From SV Pangani.

[The Old Ruminator]

Flying Enterprise with amended date.

[The Old Ruminator]

Aparima. A rare named plate.

[The Old Ruminator]

A few more --

[The Old Ruminator]

Lord Stonehaven, Plymouth.




Mounting position on bridge.

[jess]

Hi Nick, yet another good thread you started, it was the builders plate that gave us the positive.I.D.to purchase the wreck of the Gefion, back in the late 70s.
But years later one of our group, landed on the bow which sits at 90 degrees
& there for all to see is the name,
No not in BRASS letters,wishful thinking, but in cast ,but still nice to see. Here is a Picture for those who have dived it ? or who may want to ?

[The Old Ruminator]

Thanks Jess. Looks like the builders plate under the bridge.

[jess]

Well spoted Nick, like you said its looking at the fine details, I have just edited my post, 90 deg. not 180 deg. school was so long ago, thats my excuse ? I must proof read my post more carefully before posting . Its a wonder I never got pulled on that error by one of your eagle eyed diver friends, or may be they havent dived the Gefion, to know the bow lies on her port side ie 90 degrees, or did they take pity on me ,not to take the P##S ?

[The Old Ruminator]

A rare ebay offering. Current March 08.

[The Old Ruminator]

Birgitte.

[Aquaholic]

Found 22/08/2000 by Jez

[SteveC]

You can just see the builders plate in the piccie. This is the Duke of Albany, discovered by Kevin Heath, off the Orkneys last year:

The Duke of Albany was the Fleetwood to Belfast ferry run by the London & N.W royal mail company, built in 1907 by Brown J & Co Glasgow.

She was 100 meters long and had a gross tonnage of 1997 tons

In WW1 the Duke of Albany was taken over by the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Duke of Albany, and used as an armed boarding vessel around the Orkney Islands helping to maintain the blockade of Germany.

on the morning of the 26th of August 1916 while in escort with the Duke of Clarence she was torpedoed by UB 27, the torpedo hitting just aft of the engine room and sank in seven minutes.

[Kevin Heath]

the portholes below the bridge look like the ones Nick posted from SS Copenhagen ?

thanks for posting pic steve

[The Old Ruminator]

[The Old Ruminator]

A rare ebay offering,

MV Tennyson built 1957 for The Chine Shipping Co.

[SteveC]

Builders plate when found:



during the clean up



preserved, rather than lost in the silt for ever

[The Old Ruminator]

Asger Ryg ex Mimi Horn ?


No Sod It.
Her yard no was 42.

So what ship ?

[SteveC]

Originally Posted by salsettediving

Asger Ryg ex Mimi Horn ?


No Sod It.
Her yard no was 42.

So what ship ?

I have absolutely no idea. I was sent them in an email,

Steve

[The Old Ruminator]

An interesting exercise though Steve. Can we identify the ship from the builders plate alone. If that one is yard no 32 and Mimi Horn 42 they must have built at least 10 ships in 1902. Currently stuck, you have a go.

[The Duck]

Process of elimination

I'll start by one it's not

Stadt Schleswig - built by Schömer & Jensen, Tönning | 1914 in short sevice for Imperial Navy as Kohlentransporter, 1914 interned at San Luis de Maranhao, 1917 seized by Brazil renamed Tabatinga, 1927 sold to Lloyd Brasileiro, 1932 scrapped.

Now we just need to identify which other ships built by Schömer & Jensen in 1902 it isn't ... then what we are left with is the one it is

Erm, I think there may be a flaw in this idea somewhere