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Name: New forepart for HARPAGUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 1946
Completed: 05/1946
Builder: Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 1946
Dimensions: 190.0 x 56.6 x 27.4ft
Engines: n/a
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: n/a
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 168347
History:
05/1946 New forepart for HARPAGUS
05/1946 Completed ship renamed TREWORLAS
21/09/1960 Broken up
Comments: 11/1942: HARPAGUS completed by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland
for National SS Co Ltd (J & C Harrison), London
1944: Sold to Hain SS Co Ltd, London
19/08/1944: Damaged by mine off Arromanches, inward from Southend with military stores, fore part sank, after part towed to Southampton then to the Tyne.
1946: New forepart measuring 190ft built by the Shipbuilding Corporation and joined to the after part in the Wallsend dry-dock of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson
05/1946:Renamed TREWORLAS on completion
01/06/1960: Damaged by grounding on the Madira reef, Persian Gulf, sailed back to Falmouth but declared a Constructive Total Loss
09/0960: Broken up at Briton Ferry by TW Ward Ltd


Above: The aft part of HARPAGUS moored in the Tyne. Photo copyright of Laurence Dunn

Above: The finished job as TREWORLAS. Photo copyright John Clarkson