MV Ardingly

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NameMV Ardingly
Operator Stephenson Clarke Shipping, [1] Newcastle Upon Tyne
Builder SP Austin & Son Ltd, [2] Southwick, Sunderland
Yard number406 [2]
Launched25 October 1950
Completed1951 [1]
Acquired1951 [1]
Out of service1971 [1]
FateSold
Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameMV Ballyrobert [1]
Operator John Kelly, [3] Belfast
Acquired1971 [3]
Out of service1977 [3]
Identification IMO number:  5022778
FateSold
Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus [1]
NameMV Lucky Trader [1]
Acquired1977 [1]
Out of service1982 [1]
Identification IMO number:  5022778
FateScrapped at Piraeus, Greece, 1982 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type Coaster
Tonnage1,473  GRT; [2] 1,930 long tons (2,160 short tons; 1,960 t) deadweight [2]
Length240 ft 0 in (73.15 m)
Beam36 ft 4 in (11.07 m)
Draught20 ft 0 in (6.10 m)
Capacity1,860 long tons (2,080 short tons; 1,890 t) [2]

MV Ardingly was a coaster built in 1951 as a collier for Stephenson Clarke Shipping. [1] She carried coal from North East England to ports in Southern England until this trade declined early in the 1960s. [1] Stephenson Clarke then transferred her to carrying bulk cargoes including limestone and grain. [1]

Many Stephenson Clarke ships were named after places in South East England. [2] MV Ardingly may have been so named because one Stephenson Clarke director, Mr. P.G. Wallace, had been a pupil at Ardingly College in 1909. [1]

In 1971 Stephenson Clarke sold her and a sister ship, MV Steyning , to John Kelly [3] in Northern Ireland. Kelly renamed her MV Ballyrobert [1] after the village of Ballyrobert in County Antrim.

In 1977 Kelly sold her to a Cypriot operator who renamed her MV Lucky Trader. [1] She was sold for scrap and broken up in Piraeus near Athens 1982. [1]

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