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Name: EMPIRE HAZLITT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/05/1942
Completed: 07/1942
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 528
Dimensions: 7036grt, 4933nrt, 430.9 x 56.2 x 35.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (24.5, 39 & 70 x 48ins), 510mn
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 169046
History:
07/1942 Ministry of War Transport (J Morrison & Son, managers), South Shields
1943 Royal Netherlands Government (Nederlansche Stoomv Maats Oceaan, managers)
1943 Renamed AELBERT CUYP
1946 NV Gebr van Uden's Scheepvaart en Agentuur Mij, Rotterdam
1946 Renamed DELFSHAVEN
1960 Zenith Transportation Corp, Monrovia; renamed EDINA
1961 Consolidated Navigation Corp, Monrovia; renamed CONFIDENCE
12/1966 Broken up
Comments: 12/1966: Broken up at Kaohsiung


Above photo as EMPIRE HAZLITT, dated 11/07/1942, is copyright of South Tyneside Libraries

Above photo as DELFSHAVEN is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as DELFSHAVEN is courtesy of Photoship