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Name: GRANWOOD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/07/1959
Completed: 10/1959
Builder: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 601
Dimensions: 8182grt, 4388nrt, 487.1 x 61.3 x 26.0ft
Engines: Oil engine, Sulzer type, 2SA, 7cyl (720 x 1250mm), 6300ihp
Engines by: G Clark & North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (Sunderland) Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 301016
History:
10/1959 Wm France, Fenwick & Co Ltd, London
1971 Ofmike Corporation, Monrovia; renamed PENNY MICHAELS
1976 Renamed LAMDA
1980 Renamed BLUE DANUBE
1981 Black Sea Shipping Co Ltd, Monrovia; renamed BELMONTE
07/1982 Broken up
Comments: 04/05/1968: Damaged by a limpet mine & beached off Key West
On a voyage from Botwood to Houston & towed to Mobile for temporary repairs
Mine was blamed on an anti Castro group that thought she was trading with Cuba
Subsequently towed to Immingham for permanent repairs
11/07/1982: Arrived at Chittagong for breaking up
Broken up by Karnafuly Metal Works


Above photo as GRANWOOD is copyright of John G Johnson

Above photo as GRANWOOD is copyright of John G Johnson

Coming to Sunderland for engines. Photo as GRANWOOD is copyright of Tony Frost

Above photo as GRANWOOD is copyright of Brian Watson

Above photo as GRANWOOD is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as GRANWOOD is copyright of Alan Richardson