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Name: EMPIRE MOULMEIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/06/1944
Completed: 08/1944
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 540
Dimensions: 7047grt, 4741nrt, 430.9 x 56.2 x 35.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (24.5, 39 & 70 x 48ins), 542mn
Engines by: J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 180219
History:
08/1944 Ministry of War Transport (Port Line Ltd, managers), South Shields
1945 Government of France, Le Havre; renamed COLONEL VIELJEUX
1945 Managed by Nouvelle Cie Havraise Peninsulaire de Nav, Le Havre
1948 Nouvelle Cie Havraise Peninsulaire de Nav, Le Havre; renamed VILLE DE DIEGO-SUAREZ
1962 Soc Monegasque d'Armement et de Nav, Monaco; renamed VIMY
1962 Riza ve Aslan Sadikoglu ve Ortagi Adi Komadit Sti, Istanbul; renamed DEMIRHAN
1966 Manizade Vapuru Donatma Istiraki, Istanbul; renamed MANIZADE
20/03/1976 Broken up
Comments: 20/03/1976: Broken up at Aliaga by Zeki Veren


Above photo as EMPIRE MOULMEIN, dated 01/08/1944, is copyright of South Tyneside Libraries

Above photo as VILLE DE DIEGO-SUAREZ courtesy of Stuart Smith

Above photo as DEMIRHAN courtesy of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo as MANIZADE courtesy of the Robert Boman Collection