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Name: KILLURIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/10/1945
Completed: 1946
Builder: Clelands (Successors) Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 77
Dimensions: 670dwt, 565grt, 304nrt, 175.0 x 27.1 x 9.5ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SCSA, 5cyl (9.75 x 17.75ins), 430bhp
Engines by: British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 180792
History:
17/12/1945 Henry J Wilson, London & Wexford
07/02/1950 Sank
Comments: 07/02/1950: Sank on Sillette Reef off Normont Point, Jersey
On a voyage from Grimsby to St Helier with a cargo of basic slag


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