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Name: SALVUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/04/1928
Completed: 05/1928
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co (1927) Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 402
Dimensions: 4815grt, 2948nrt, 399.01 x 54.5 x 25.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 42 & 71 x 48ins), 432nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 148299
History:
05/1928 Tempus Shipping Co Ltd (WH Seager & Co Ltd), Cardiff
04/04/1941 Sank
Comments: 04/04/1941: Sank after being bombed in 53.05N – 01.27E on a voyage
from London to the Tyne and Halifax in ballast


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