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ON 185449
length = 449.8 ft, (137.1 metres)
beam = 60.3 ft, ( 18.38 metres)
depth = 23.3 ft, ( 7.10 metres)

nrt = 3147
grt = 5883
deadweight = 7089

Built by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast
Yard No. 1449
for Elder Dempster Lines Ltd

B&W 2 Stroke Single Acting 5 cylinder
620 mm x 1400 mm
3750 bhp
13 knots
5 hatches

launched 24th June 1952 (by Mrs B Glasier)
completed November 1952
registered in Liverpool
maiden voyage 1952, Capt RA Roberts

sold 1972 to Anglo-Pacific SA, Hong Kong
(Anglo Eastern Shipping Co Managers)
renamed AMOY
Registered in Mogadishu, Somalia

9th August 1972 standed near Cape Negrais,
at mouth of Irrawaddy River,
whilst on voyage from Penang to Calcutta
Declared a constructive total loss

SISTER VESSELS
ONITSHA (launched 29th January 1952)
OWERRI (launched 14th October 1954)


Acknowledgement is made to "The ELDER DEMPSTER Fleet History"
1852 - 1985
by
James E Cowden & John OC Duffy
ISBN 0 9509453 1 5
Mallett Bell Publications
1986

page produced by George Lang

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