History
United Kingdom
Name	MV Ardingly
Operator	Stephenson Clarke Shipping, [1] Newcastle Upon Tyne
Builder	SP Austin & Son Ltd, [2] Southwick, Sunderland
Yard number	406 [2]
Launched	25 October 1950
Completed	1951 [1]
Acquired	1951 [1]
Out of service	1971 [1]
Fate	Sold
United Kingdom
Name	MV Ballyrobert [1]
Operator	John Kelly, [3] Belfast
Acquired	1971 [3]
Out of service	1977 [3]
Identification	IMO number:  5022778
Fate	Sold
Cyprus [1]
Name	MV Lucky Trader [1]
Acquired	1977 [1]
Out of service	1982 [1]
Identification	IMO number:  5022778
Fate	Scrapped at Piraeus, Greece, 1982 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Coaster
Tonnage	1,473  GRT; [2] 1,930 long tons (2,160 short tons; 1,960 t) deadweight [2]
Length	240 ft 0 in (73.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 4 in (11.07 m)
Draught	20 ft 0 in (6.10 m)
Capacity	1,860 long tons (2,080 short tons; 1,890 t) [2]

MV Ardingly was a coaster built in 1951 as a collier for Stephenson Clarke Shipping. ^[1] She carried coal from North East England to ports in Southern England until this trade declined early in the 1960s. ^[1] Stephenson Clarke then transferred her to carrying bulk cargoes including limestone and grain. ^[1]

Many Stephenson Clarke ships were named after places in South East England. ^[2] MV Ardingly may have been so named because one Stephenson Clarke director, Mr. P.G. Wallace, had been a pupil at Ardingly College in 1909. ^[1]

In 1971 Stephenson Clarke sold her and a sister ship, MV Steyning, to John Kelly ^[3] in Northern Ireland. Kelly renamed her MV Ballyrobert ^[1] after the village of Ballyrobert in County Antrim.

In 1977 Kelly sold her to a Cypriot operator who renamed her MV Lucky Trader. ^[1] She was sold for scrap and broken up in Piraeus near Athens 1982. ^[1]