MV Aureol

MV Aureol was a mid-sized British ocean liner, originally put into service for Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool in 1951. She was constructed on the River Clyde in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons. At 537 feet long and measuring 14,083 gross register tons, Aureol had room for 329 passengers and carried 145 crew.^[3] She spent her entire Elder Dempster career on the UK-Lagos passenger cargo service. From 1951 to 1972 she sailed from Liverpool, but closure of the landing stage and the hope of better loadings led to her being transferred to Southampton (first departure 26 April 1972) for the last two years of her service.

MV Aureol
History
United Kingdom
Name	MV Aureol
Owner	Elder Dempster Lines Ltd.
Port of registry	Liverpool,  UK
Route	Liverpool-Las Palmas-Bathurst(Banjul)-Freetown-Monrovia-Tema-Apapa. From 1972-74 UK departure port Southampton.
Builder	Alexander Stephen and Sons, Govan
Yard number	629[1]
Launched	28 March 1951
Completed	October 1951
Maiden voyage	3 November 1951
Out of service	18 October 1974
Identification	IMO number: 5030878[2]
Fate	Sold, November 1974
Panama
Name	M/V Marianna VI
Owner	Yiannis Latsis
Port of registry	Panama  Panama
Acquired	November 1974
Fate	Laid up, February 1979 Scrapped, Alang, India, 2001
General characteristics [3]
Type	Passenger/cargo ocean liner
Tonnage	14,083 GRT 7,689 NRT 6,827 DWT[1]
Length	537 ft (164 m)
Beam	70 ft (21 m)
Draught	25 ft (7.6 m)[1]
Installed power	10,800bhp[4]
Propulsion	2 × 4-cylinder Doxford diesel engines, 2 shafts[1]
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity	329 passengers: 253 first class 76 cabin class
Crew	145

Aureol arrived at Southampton at the end of her final Elder Dempster voyage on 18 October 1974. She was purchased by Greek oil tycoon Yiannis Latsis, and renamed Marianna VI after one of his daughters. In 1989 she was laid up at Eleusina and did not sail again until 2001, when she moved to the Indian port of Alang to be beached and broken up for scrap.