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SS Helenus
10,125gt L 496 feet, 18 knots.
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The Helenus was the first of four steam turbine "H" boats to be built, and was completed at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast in 1949. |
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Photos taken between 1950 - 1955 by Gwyn Lloyd Williams |
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 Dry-dock Glasgow Aug 25th 1953
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 Albany, Australia. Oct 13th 1953
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 Howel, and Gwyn at Port Said.
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 Robin Evans, Penmon Anglesey 1955.
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 Robin and Gwyn, April 1955.
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 Crossing the line ceremony Sep 23rd 1953
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 Playing Cricket on the Foredeck.
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 Painting the mast, Brisbane, Nov 2nd 1953.
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 Shop on board in Las Palmas, Sept 19th 1953
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 Gwyn Lloyd Williams
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 Alun Pritchard, Nefyn.
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Barber's chair 1953
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 Loading a Locomotive for Australia 1953
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 At Melbourne, Oct 20th 1953
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 Over the stern 1954
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 Tom and Gwyn
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 Leaving Sydney 1954
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 In Sydney Oct 27th 1953
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 Dry-dock Glasgow Aug 25th 1953
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 Glasgow 1953
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 Heavy weather in the Bay |
 At home in Liverpool
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 Heavy weather in the Bay |
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Other Ships Gwyn Sailed On
Gwyn with "Ship's Cat", on the Ixion, March 1953.
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Robin Edwards, Amlwch and Taff Owen, Caernarfon "Antilochus", Japan, 1951 |
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Robin Edwards, Amlwch, "Antilochus" 1951 |
Painting the Antilochus Topmast, 1951
 Gwyn on the Antenor 1952
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 Antilochus, Gwyn's first ship, 1950
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 Ixion at Cape Town, March 4th 1953 |
 Ixion |
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Many thanks to Menna Lloyd Williams for lending us these fantastic photographs, from the collection of her late brother Gwyn Lloyd Williams, Llanfaethlu, Ynys Mon (1933 - 2007) |
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Timetable for 1959
| Vessel | Brisbane | Sydney | Melbourne | Adelaide | Port Said | Genoa | Dunkirk | Antwerp | Liverpool | Belfast | Glasgow |
| Helenus | Aug 15th | Aug 21st | Sep 5th | Sep 25th | Oct 3rd | Oct 6th | Oct 7th? | Oct 14th | |||
| Hector | Sep 5th | Sep 12th | Oct 3rd | Oct 7th | Oct 13th | Oct 20th | Oct 22nd | ||||
| Ixion | Oct 31st | Nov 7th | Nov 14th | Dec 3rd | Dec 11th | Dec 13th | Dec 15th | Dec 22nd | |||
| Jason | Nov 28th | Dec 5th | Dec 26th | Dec 30th | Jan 5th | Jan 12th |
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"H" Boats / Built |
Year | In the Blue Funnel Fleet | Tonnage |
| Helenus / Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. | 1949 | Scrapped in Kaohsiung, 1972. | 10,125gt |
| Hector / Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. | 1949 | Scrapped in Kaohsiung, 1972. | 10,125gt |
| Ixion / Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. | 1951 | Scrapped in Barcelona, 1972. | 10,125gt |
| Jason / Swan Hunter, Wallsend-on-Tyne. | 1950 | Scrapped in Kaohsiung, 1972. | 10,160gt |
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Many Thanks to;
Gwyn Jones, for the 1959 Timetable.