Name: | EMPIRE MOULMEIN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 08/06/1944 |
Completed: | 08/1944 |
Builder: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 540 |
Dimensions: | 7047grt, 4741nrt, 430.9 x 56.2 x 35.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24.5, 39 & 70 x 48ins), 542mn |
Engines by: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 180219 |
History: | |
08/1944 | Ministry of War Transport (Port Line Ltd, managers), South Shields |
1945 | Government of France, Le Havre; renamed COLONEL VIELJEUX |
1945 | Managed by Nouvelle Cie Havraise Peninsulaire de Nav, Le Havre |
1948 | Nouvelle Cie Havraise Peninsulaire de Nav, Le Havre; renamed VILLE DE DIEGO-SUAREZ |
1962 | Soc Monegasque d'Armement et de Nav, Monaco; renamed VIMY |
1962 | Riza ve Aslan Sadikoglu ve Ortagi Adi Komadit Sti, Istanbul; renamed DEMIRHAN |
1966 | Manizade Vapuru Donatma Istiraki, Istanbul; renamed MANIZADE |
20/03/1976 | Broken up |
Comments: | 20/03/1976: Broken up at Aliaga by Zeki Veren |
Above photo as EMPIRE MOULMEIN, dated 01/08/1944, is copyright of South Tyneside Libraries
Above photo as VILLE DE DIEGO-SUAREZ courtesy of Stuart Smith
Above photo as DEMIRHAN courtesy of Malcolm Cranfield
Above photo as MANIZADE courtesy of the Robert Boman Collection