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