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Name: GIOVANNA FLORIO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/05/1920
Completed: 10/1920
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 241
Dimensions: 5141grt, 3217nrt, 375.0 x 51.2 x 31.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 69 x 48ins), 371nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1926:149770)
History:
10/1920 I & V Florio, Palermo
1925 Florio Soc Italiana di Nav (I & V Florio, managers), Palermo
1926 Haldin & Co, London; renamed MERSINGTON COURT
1936 Company restyled Court Line Ltd, London
15/04/1940 Sank
Comments: 15/04/1940: Scuttled at Narvik, Norway
21/03/1952: Raised
15/10/1952: Broken up at Antwerp


Above photo as MERSINGTON COURT courtesy of Steinar Norheim