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Name: BELGIAN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/08/1919
Completed: 10/1919
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1139
Dimensions: 5287grt, 3228nrt, 400.3 x 52.4 x 28.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48in), 517nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 140659
History:
10/1919 F Leyland & Co Ltd, Liverpool
1934 Achille Lauro, Naples; renamed AMELIA LAURO
1940 Ministry of Shipping (Galbraith, Pembroke & Co Ltd), London
1940 Renamed EMPIRE ACTIVITY
03/10/1943 Sank
Comments: Laid down for The Shipping Controller as a WAR class vessel
10/06/1940: Seized by UK at Immingham
03/10/1943: Sank after stranding 1.5 miles south of Peckford Reef
in Sir Charles Hamilton Sound, Newfoundland
On a voyage from Botwood to the UK with a cargo of zinc concentrates


Above photo as EMPIRE ACTIVITY copyright of Stuart Smith