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Name: MELAMPUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/04/1924
Completed: 06/1924
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 938
Dimensions: 6336grt, 3869nrt, 432.0 x 54.9 x 30.1ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, DR geared, 5700shp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1950: 18380)
History:
06/1924 NV Nederland Stoomvaart Mij "Oceaan", Amsterdam
1950 Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd (A Holt & Co), Liverpool
01/10/1957 Broken up
Comments: 1955: Laid-up in the Holy Loch, Scotland
1957: Sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation (Salvage) - BISCO
01/10/1957: Arrived at Inverkeithing for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd


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Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Thursday, 10/04/1924