Name: | MIRAFLORES |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 12/03/1921 |
Completed: | 05/1921 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1163 |
Dimensions: | 2158grt, 1201nrt, 270.7 x 39.0 x 14.7ft |
Engines: | T4cyl (20.5, 33, 37 & 37 x 30ins), 305nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Reg Number: | 145445 |
History: | |
19/05/1921 | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Newcastle |
1925 | Miraflores Steamship Co Ltd (Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co), Kingston, Jamaica |
1931 | Managers became Standard Fruit & SS Company |
1932 | Marymira Co Ltd, Kingston |
1937 | Llanrumney Ltd, Kingston |
02/1942 | Missing |
Comments: | Launched for Atlantic Fruit Co, New York |
14/02/1942: Sailed from Port de Paix on a voyage from Cap Hatien | |
to New York and subsequently posted missing | |
19/02/1942: Probably torpedoed by U-Boat U432, 100 miles E of Cape May |