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Name: RIALTO
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/09/1948
Completed: 04/1949
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1860
Dimensions: 45993grt, 2585nrt, 7050dwt, 401.5 x 55.8 x 25.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (26.5, 43 & 73 x 48ins) + LP turbine, 1012nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.5knots
Reg Number: 183393
History:
31/03/1949 Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd, Hull
1970 Tiara Shipping Co Ltd, Famagusta; renamed SANDRA
1970 Manager Transmarine Shipping Agencies Ltd, London (Thrassivoulos & Leonidas Voyazides)
by 1973 Government of China
No later history known
Comments: 05/1971: Reported as broken up at Whampoa
1973: Identified in a photo taken at Dalian, China, name unknown


Above photo as RIALTO is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo as RIALTO is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as RIALTO is copyright of Richard Myers

Above photo showing RIALTO on charter to PSNC and in the Manchester Ship Canal is courtesy of Frank Brown

Above photo as SANDRA is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo taken at Dalian in 1973/74 shows ex SANDRA alongside