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Name: AUTOLYCUS
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/08/1948
Completed: 05/1949
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 107
Dimensions: 7705grt, 4437nrt, 9440dwt, 487.0 x 62.4 x 28.3ft
Engines: Oil engine, B&W type, 2DA, 8cyl (550 x 1200mm), 6800bhp
Engines by: Harland & Wolff, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 182483
History:
05/1949 China Mutual SN Co Ltd (A Holt & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1974 Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool
1975 China Mutual SN Co Ltd (A Holt & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1975 Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool
1976 Gullf Shipping Lines Ltd, Liverpool; renamed GULF TRADER
29/04/1978 Broken up
Comments: 29/04/1978: Broken up at Kaohsiung by Nan Feng Steel Enterprises Co Ltd


Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo copyright of John Clarkson

Above photo dated 09/02/1969 copyright of Dennis Maccoy

Above photo copyright of Iain Forsyth

On charter to Nigerian National Lines. Photo copyright of Ray Perry