Name: | New forepart for HARPAGUS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 1946 |
Completed: | 05/1946 |
Builder: | Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1946 |
Dimensions: | 190.0 x 56.6 x 27.4ft |
Engines: | n/a |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | n/a |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 168347 |
History: | |
05/1946 | New forepart for HARPAGUS |
05/1946 | Completed ship renamed TREWORLAS |
21/09/1960 | Broken up |
Comments: | 11/1942: HARPAGUS completed by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
for National SS Co Ltd (J & C Harrison), London | |
1944: Sold to Hain SS Co Ltd, London | |
19/08/1944: Damaged by mine off Arromanches, inward from Southend with military stores, fore part sank, after part towed to Southampton then to the Tyne. | |
1946: New forepart measuring 190ft built by the Shipbuilding Corporation and joined to the after part in the Wallsend dry-dock of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson | |
05/1946:Renamed TREWORLAS on completion | |
01/06/1960: Damaged by grounding on the Madira reef, Persian Gulf, sailed back to Falmouth but declared a Constructive Total Loss | |
09/0960: Broken up at Briton Ferry by TW Ward Ltd |
Above: The aft part of HARPAGUS moored in the Tyne. Photo copyright of Laurence Dunn
Above: The finished job as TREWORLAS. Photo copyright John Clarkson