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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GLENAPP |
141887 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1918 |
16/03/1918 |
09/1918 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Motor Vessel 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
Clydeholm Yard |
519 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 7938 grt / 4623 nrt / |
450.5 ft |
55.8 ft |
35.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Harland & Wolff Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 2-Screw Oil 4SCSA 2x8cyl (750 x 1100mm), speed 14 knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Glen Line Ltd., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
09/09/1918 |
| Other names |
| 1921 ABA - 1947 MATRONA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1920 British & African Steam Navigation Co. (Elder, Dempster), Liverpool
1933 Elder Dempster Lines Ltd., Liverpool
09/1939 Admiralty requisition (as hospital ship)
1947 returned to owners
1947 Bawtry S.S. Co (George J.Livanos), London
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| Vessel history |
| 31/10/1947 capsized in Bidston Dock when her ballast was removed while being converted to the emigrant carrier MATRONA |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1948 |
Broken Up 04/10/1948 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Sold for breaking at Barrow in Furness by T.W.Ward Ltd, arrived 04/10/1948 |
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