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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| EMPIRE WILSON |
169418 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1944 |
18/08/1944 |
12/1944 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Motor Vessel |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow |
Scotstoun |
446 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 9916 grt / 7118 nrt / |
475.7 ft |
64.3 ft |
40.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| Oil engine. 2SCSA. 1201NHP. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Ministry of War Transport - Stanley & John Thompson Ltd., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
26/09/1944 |
| Other names |
| 1946 KENILWORTH CASTLE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1946 Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co. Ltd., London
1964 Cayzer, Irvine & Company Ltd., appointed managers. |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
| Standard Fast Cargo Liner class. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1967 |
Broken Up 31/07/1967 |
| Disposal Detail |
04/06/1967 Arrived at Hong Kong for demolition by Hong Kong Chiap Hua Manufactory Company Ltd.
31/07/1967 Having been resold, arrived at Kaohsiung, under tow for demolition.
12/1967 Work commenced. |
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Kenilworth Castle
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