Category:Empire Tide (ship, 1941)

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Ship[edit]

  • Ship Type: Cargo ship
  • Built by: Lithgows Ltd., Kingston Shipbuilding Yard, Port Glasgow
  • Yard No: 945
  • Launched: 27 May 1941
  • Commpleted: Oct 1941
  • Length: 432.7 feet
  • Breadth: 56.2 feet
  • Draught: 34.3 feet
  • Displacement: 6,978 tons
  • 4,147 nrt.
  • 9,570 dwt.
  • Machinery: Oil engine
  • Engines by J.G. Kincaid & Co. Ltd. Greenock
  • Propulsion: 6-cyl. 4SCSA oil engine 490nhp
  • Armament: 1 Hawker Hurricane aircraft

History[edit]

  • 1941 Named: Empire Tide for Ministry of War Transport. Operated by the Royal Mail Line.
  • 1943 (mng Sir R Ropner & Co Ltd, W Hartlepool)
  • 1945 Sold to Ropner Shipping Co Ltd, W Hartlepool Renamed: Thirlby
  • 1956 Sold to Transportes Maritimos Atlas SA (Wheelock Marden & Co Ltd, Hong Kong), Panama Renamed: Guri
  • 1963 Panamanian Oriental Steam Ship Corp, Panama (same mngrs) Renamed: Anto
  • 1963 (mng World-Wide Shipping Agency Ltd, Hong Kong)
  • 1966 Apollo Shipping Co SA, Panama (same mngrs)
  • 19/11/1966 Arrived for Scrapping -
  • 1966 Scrapped at Ikeda,Japan.

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