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Name: BELLVIEW
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/09/1921
Completed: 01/1922
Builder: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 468
Dimensions: 4677grt 2794nrt, 400.3 x 52.1 x 25.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 455nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144099
History:
23/01/1922 Keighley Steamship Co Ltd (J Bell & Co, managers), Hull
1933 CE Embiricos, Andros, Greece; renamed OLGA E EMBIRICOS
29/01/1944 Sank
Comments: 29/01/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U188, 210 miles W of Socotra
On a voyage from Durban to Aden with a cargo of coal


Above photo as BELLVIEW is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as BELLVIEW is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as BELLVIEW is courtesy of Stuart Smith

Above photo as OLGA E EMBIRICOS is copyright of A Duncan