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7 unusual facts about Tramp trade

Claude Buckle

He found time to travel in France, Spain and North Africa using Tramp Steamers recording scenes that later formed many of the ideas for his water colours paintings.

Jim Guy Tucker

In early 1965, Tucker found passage to southeast Asia by tramp steamer from San Francisco and entered South Vietnam as an accredited freelance war correspondent.

MV Harambee

Belgrano spent most of her career sailing for Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (Hamburg-Süd) between Hamburg and South American ports, but was also used for tramping services.

80-90% per that shipping involved tramping services and although the ship operator had three lines since 1951 namely: Szczecin - Stockholm, Szczecin - London - Rouen and Szczecin - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp.

SS Drakensburg Castle

Although Drakensburg Castle was a fast ship compared to others in the Union-Castle Line fleet, she was expensive to operate and not suitable for use as a tramp.

SS Servia

This sacrifice was viable because at that time, tramp steamers had taken over much of the freight across the Atlantic, while the demand for passenger transportation had increased.

SS The Ramsey

On her last patrol she had steamed for 12 hours when, after dawn on August 8, 1915, she saw smoke over the horizon, gave chase, and came upon a large tramp steamer flying the Russian flag.