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Name: MEGANTIC
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/07/1962
Completed: 12/1962
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1990
Dimensions: 11120grt, 6154nrt, 495.0 x 71.0 x 42.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 2SA, B&W type, 7cyl (620 x 1870mm), 16000bhp
Engines by: Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 18.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 304403
History:
12/1962 Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, London
1979 Ampney Shipping Corp, Piraeus; renamed DIMITRIOS VENTOURIS
16/04/1980 Broken up
Comments: 16/04/1980: Broken up at Kaohsiung by Swie Horng Steel Enterprise Co


Above photo as MEGANTIC is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as MEGANTIC is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as MEGANTIC is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as MEGANTIC is copyright of Harold Appleyard

Above photo as MEGANTIC is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as DIMITRIOS VENTOURIS is courtesy of Michael Green

Profile & Decks plans copyright of Shipbuilding & Shipping Record. Click HERE to enlarge

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Copy courtesy of Terry Summerson