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Name: CAIRNDHU
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/12/1918
Completed: 03/1919
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 884
Dimensions: 5250grt, 3218nrt, 399.3 x 52.2 x 28.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142828
History:
27/03/1919 Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co Ltd), Newcastle
1935 Livanos Brothers, Chios; renamed STRYMON
1937 Livanos Maritime Co Ltd (NG Livanos), Chios
1951 Cia Maritima Internacional SA (S Livanos), Panama; renamed LIBERTY
17/01/1952 Wrecked
Comments: Launched as WAR CAMEL for The Shipping Controller
17/01/1952: Wrecked at Portheras Cove, 5 miles east of Pendeen
On a voyage from Newport to La Goulette in ballast


Above photo as CAIRNDHU is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as LIBERTY is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as LIBERTY, six months later, is copyright of Penzance Archives