Wild Auk

[Ian Mutch]

Was anyone on the P&O ship Wild Auk in 1979?

IAn Mutch 3rd mate

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Ian.
Welcome. Hang in there you never know when someone you know will reply, meanwhile enjoy the postings.
Des

[Bob Stephenson]

Hi Ian,
I did several trips on the Wild Avocet, Curlew, Fulmar and Mallard, sadly not Auk. I believe she was on the Jaffa run in 79 with the Mallard which I was on as 4th eng.
Regards Bob

[Vince Watkins]

I was on the Wild Auk in I think 1979 or early 1980, joined in Sheerness, Haifa, Sheerness, Fort Lauderdale, Ecuador, Kiwi for a month and back home. I flew home from Panama. At the time I was galley boy, this was my first ship in P&O.

[Doc Vernon]

Wild Auk.JPG

Wild Auk
21 knots
Nine cyinder 2 S.C. SA Burmeister and Wain oil engine by Verksted, Oslo, developing 17, 400 BHP
Builder: A/S Bergens M/V, Bergen, Norway (yard No. 651)

22/07/1971: launched
01/10/1971: P&O General Cargo Division appointed managers
18/12/1971: Delivered
02/06/1980: Sold to Astrid Shipping Corp (Comninos Brothers Shipping, managers)
re named Olympian Reefer
1984 transfered to National Preperation Compania Naviera S.A. Greece

[Graham Shaw]

....and for completeness:- Broken up comm.17/5/99 at Mumbai,India by Gaurav Mercantile.