Name: | HOPECROWN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 11/05/1937 |
Completed: | 07/1937 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1535 |
Dimensions: | 5180grt, 3131nrt, 418.9 x 57.4 x 25.6ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 2SCSA, Doxford type, 4cyl (23.5 x 91.25ins), 687nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Reg Number: | 161607 |
History: | |
06/07/1937 | Clive Shipping Co Ltd (A Stott & Co), Newcastle |
1938 | Managers became Stott, Mann & Fleming Ltd |
1950 | Managers became Stephens, Sutton Ltd; renamed RADLEY |
1956 | Rederi A/B Atos (Allan Börjesson), Helsingborg; renamed ALSTERN |
1963 | Santa Katerina Cia Naviera SA, Panama (G Lemos Bros, London) |
1963 | Renamed APOSTOLOS ANDREAS |
1967 | Santa Katerina Shipping Co Ltd, Famagusta (N Papathomas, London) |
19/07/1967 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 19/07/1967: Wrecked on Formiga Rocks, 80 miles NE of Kingston, Jamaica |
On a voyage from Guantanamo to China with a cargo of bagged raw sugar |
Above photo as HOPECROWN is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as HOPECROWN is courtesy of Stan Mayes
Above photo as RADLEY is courtesy of Clive Ketley
Above photo as RADLEY is copyright of City of Vancouver Archives, Walter Frost Collection