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Name: SANDLAND
Type: Sand Pump Hopper
Launched: 06/06/1925
Completed: 07/1925
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1273
Dimensions: 1549grt, 821nrt, 205.2 x 42.7 x 18.4ft; (1943: 2213grt, 250.8ft)
Engines: T3cyl (16, 27 & 44 x 30ins), 152nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 148132
History:
07/1925 HW Terry & HD Robertson, Newcastle
1926 Ontario Gravel Freighting Co Ltd, Newcastle
1933 Manager JW Elliott, Newcastle
1943 Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, St John's, Newfoundland
1949 Edwin ET Sampson, Montreal
1951 Beaconsfield Steamships Ltd, Montreal
1961 Sandland Ships Ltd (Albert Shipping, Montreal), Nassau
1963 SA Venezolana de Empresas Maritimas, Caracas; renamed TRITON
1973 Broken up
Comments: 1943: Converted to a dry cargo and lengthened to 250.8ft
1953: Re-engined with a Fairbanks Morse, 9cyl, oil engine - manufactured in 1943
1967: Re-engined with a Fairbanks Morse oil engine
1972: Sold for breaking up
1973: Broken up at Puerto Cabello by IA Diques y Astilleros Nacionales


Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection

Above description copyright of the Toronto Marine Historical Society

Above photo copyright of the Bowling Green State University

Above description copyright of the Toronto Marine Historical Society

Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection

Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection

Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection