WH Orbell

Renamed L.M.TREASURE?

de W H ORBELL

built by Simons Lobnitz Limited Renfrew,
Yard No 1161
Engines by National Gas & Oil Engineering Co.Ashton under Lyne

Last Name: LM TREASURE-88
Propulsion: Diesel electric2 oil 4SA each 8cy driving 2 genrs connected to 2 elec motors each 575shp
Launched: Wednesday, 25/10/1961
Built: 1962
Ship Type: Bucket Hopper Dredger
Tonnage: 1240 grt
Length: 262 feet 11
Breadth: 41 feet 7
Draught: 14 feet 2
Owner History:
Timaru Harbour Board Timaru
Unknown Thai owners
Status: Reported as Active - 1988

Remarks: "W.H. Orbell" was converted to a trailer suction dredger in 1976 by Whangarei Engineering and Construction Ltd, Whangarei, New Zealand. At the time, she was the largest ship be constructed or reconstructed in New Zealand, with everything forward of the wheelhouse, including the wheelhouse, being new.
Between 1977 and 1987, "W.H.Orbell" was chartered by the THB to many different Harbour Boards around NZ and even did one charter job in Noumea.
Laid up in December 1987, she was sold the following year and towed away by the former Lyttelton Harbour Board tug "Canterbury" to Thailand, and later renamed "L.M. Treasure".