| Name: | LYCAON |
| Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 30/12/1953 |
| Completed: | 06/1954 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 138 |
| Dimensions: | 9280dwt, 7859grt, 4546nrt, 487.2 x 62.3 x 28.4ft (*) |
| Engines: | Oil engine, 2SA, B&W type, 7cyl (750 x 1500mm) |
| Engines by: | JG Kincaid & Co Ltd, Greenock |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 16.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 185489; (IMO: 5215052) |
| History: | |
| 03/06/1954 | China Mutual Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool |
| 1960 | NV Nederlandsche Stoomvaart “Mij Oceaan”, Amsterdam |
| 1974 | Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool |
| 1976 | China Mutual Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool; renamed GLAUCUS |
| 1977 | Marlborough Maritiem Inc, Panama City; renamed UNITED VANGUARD |
| 14/05/1979 | Sank |
| Comments: | 12/05/1979: While en route from Sharjan to Bassein in ballast, |
| she suffered engine failure & a ruptured sea water cooling pipe | |
| She was abandoned 380 miles east of Sri Lanka | |
| The hull was eventually driven ashore 140 miles west of Rangoon | |
| 31 crew were saved with 1 loss of life | |
| (*) Dimensions are LOA, Breadth extreme & Draft summer |
Above photo as LYCAON is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as LYCAON is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as LYCAON is copyright of JK Byass
Above photo as UNITED VANGUARD is courtesy of Photoship