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Name: CROFTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/08/1951
Completed: 12/1951
Builder: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 568
Dimensions: 8377grt, 4776nrt, 468.0 x 59.9 x 37.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (26.5, 44 & 74 x 48ins) + LP turbine, 3750ihp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 183830
History:
12/1951 Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison & Co Ltd), Liverpool
08/1971 Spica Shipping Co Ltd, Famagusta; renamed AGHIOS GEORGIOS
1976 Ifestion SA, Panama; renamed SAN GEORGIO II
1977 Broken up
Comments: 1977: Broken up at San Esteban de Pravia, left Bilbao 18/05/1977


Above photo as CROFTER copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as CROFTER copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as CROFTER courtesy of John Bage

Above photo as CROFTER copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo as CROFTER copyright of Barney

Above photo as AGHIOS GEORGIOS courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as AGHIOS GEORGIOS copyright of Stan Mayes