| Name: | PHOTINIA |
| Type: | Bulk Carrier |
| Launched: | 17/11/1960 |
| Completed: | 03/1961 |
| Builder: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
| Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 607 |
| Dimensions: | 7676grt, 3946nrt, 479.9 x 60.3 x 25.7ft |
| Engines: | Oil engine, 2SA, Doxford type, 4cyl (670 x 2320mm), 4400bhp |
| Engines by: | North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 187933 |
| History: | |
| 24/03/1961 | Stag Line Ltd (J Robinson & Sons), North Shields |
| 15/11/1979 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 1962: Converted to a cable layer |
| On charter to British Insulated Callender’s Cable Co | |
| 11/1964: Laid cables across the Cook Strait | |
| 09/1965: Laid cables between Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 1965: Converted back to a bulk carrier | |
| by 12/1976: Commenced re-fitting as a cable ship | |
| 03/1977 to 08/1977: Repairing faulty New Zealand No 1 cable | |
| 09/1977: Commenced conversion back to a bulk carrier | |
| 12/05/1978: Aground at Milwaukee after dragging her anchors in a storm | |
| 07/07/1978: Refloated & towed to Sturgeon Bay. Machinery removed there | |
| 12/1978: Towed to Chicago | |
| 15/11/1979: Arrived at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, to be broken up |
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