MV Methane Princess

Career
Name:	Methane Princess
Owner:	Shell Tankers U.K., Conch Methane
Operator:	British Gas
Builder:	Vickers
Launched:	1964
Out of service:	1997
Fate:	scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	LNG carrier
Length:	621 ft (189 m)
Beam:	82 ft (25 m)
Installed power:	13750 shp
Propulsion:	Steam
Speed:	17.5 knots
Capacity:	1,220,000 cu ft (34,500 m³) Methane

MV Methane Princess was the first LNG carrier taken into service (1964). The ship was built at Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, for British Gas. Her sister vessel is Methane Progress.

The containment system was Conch type with a total of nine tanks.

The ship was scrapped in 1998.

External links

• Photo of the Methane Princess
• http://www.helderline.nl/tankers/372/Methane+Princess/
• http://www.chesterahoy.com/SHIPS/bd.htm
• http://www.tonyholt.net/mprincess.htm

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