Name: | EMPIRE PROSPECT |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 15/03/1945 |
Completed: | 06/1945 |
Builder: | Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 11 |
Dimensions: | 7331grt, 4207nrt, 431.2 x 56.3 x 26.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24.5, 39 & 70 x 48ins) |
Engines by: | Canadian Allis-Chalmers Ltd, Montreal |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5 knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 169196 |
History: | |
06/1945 | Ministry of War Transport (Evan Thomas Radcliffe & Co), Newcastle |
1947 | Panmarine Shipping Co Ltd (Goulandris Bros Ltd), London |
1947 | Renamed RONALD M SCOBIE |
1954 | Bahia Salinas Cia Naviera SA, Monrovia; renamed PLOVER |
1964 | Registered at Andros |
1965 | Kowloon Carriers Inc (Wah Kwong & Co(HK) Ltd), Monrovia |
1965 | Renamed KOWLOON VENTURE |
20/05/1969 | Broken up |
Comments: | A standard ‘B’ type cargo Ship |
Supplied with an engine that was manufactured in 1942 and was then | |
remade by North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd at Wallsend | |
27/04/1969: Arrived at Kaohsiung for breaking up | |
20/05/1969: Broken up by Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp |
Above photo as RONALD M SCOBIE is copyright of the City of Vancouver Archives, Walter E Frost Collection
Above photo as RONALD M SCOBIE is copyright of the City of Vancouver Archives, Walter E Frost Collection
Above photo as PLOVER is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield
Above photo as PLOVER is copyright of David Meare
Above photo as KOWLOON VENTURE is copyright of Chris Finney