Name: | INKOSI |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 25/02/1937 |
Completed: | 06/1937 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1525 |
Dimensions: | 6618grt, 4055nrt, 414.8 x 56.0 x 28.5ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (28, 41.5, 59 & 84 x 54ins), 835nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 15.0knots |
Reg Number: | 164323 |
History: | |
26/05/1937 | Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool |
1941 | Ministry of War Transport (T & J Harrison), London |
1941 | Renamed EMPIRE CHIVALRY |
1946 | Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool; renamed PLANTER |
22/09/1958 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1937: Accommodation for 81 x 1st Class passengers in state-rooms |
07/09/1940: Bombed & sunk in Royal Victoria Dock, London, | |
while under conversion to an ocean boarding vessel for the Admiralty. | |
04/10/1940: Refloated & taken over by the MOWT | |
Subsequently repaired but without passenger accommodation | |
22/09/1958: Arrived at Ghent for breaking up by Van Heyghen Frères |
Above photo as INKOSI is courtesy of Stuart Smith
Above photo as EMPIRE CHIVALRY is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as PLANTER is copyright of A Duncan
Sunderland Daily Echo, Friday, 26/02/1937