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Name: INKOSI
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/02/1937
Completed: 06/1937
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1525
Dimensions: 6618grt, 4055nrt, 414.8 x 56.0 x 28.5ft
Engines: Q4cyl (28, 41.5, 59 & 84 x 54ins), 835nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Reg Number: 164323
History:
26/05/1937 Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool
1941 Ministry of War Transport (T & J Harrison), London
1941 Renamed EMPIRE CHIVALRY
1946 Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool; renamed PLANTER
22/09/1958 Broken up
Comments: 1937: Accommodation for 81 x 1st Class passengers in state-rooms
07/09/1940: Bombed & sunk in Royal Victoria Dock, London,
while under conversion to an ocean boarding vessel for the Admiralty.
04/10/1940: Refloated & taken over by the MOWT
Subsequently repaired but without passenger accommodation
22/09/1958: Arrived at Ghent for breaking up by Van Heyghen Frères


Above photo as INKOSI is courtesy of Stuart Smith

Above photo as EMPIRE CHIVALRY is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as PLANTER is copyright of A Duncan

Sunderland Daily Echo, Friday, 26/02/1937