| Name: | PORT FAIRY |
| Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 18/07/1928 |
| Completed: | 10/1928 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1339 |
| Dimensions: | 7980grt, 4927nrt, 477.3 x 63.2 x 31.0ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Oil engines, 2SCSA, 4cyl (23.5 x 91.25ins), 1374nhp |
| Engines by: | Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 14.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 160590 |
| History: | |
| 13/10/1928 | Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, London |
| 11/1937 | Company restyled as Port Line Ltd, London |
| 1965 | Embajada Cia Naviera SA; renamed TAI SHIKAN |
| 04/06/1965 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 1928: Accommodation for 12 x passengers |
| 28/02/1940: Collided with LOCH DEE and both ships returned to Halifax for repairs | |
| 22/10/1940: Whilst in Convoy OL8 the escorting destroyer HMCS MARGAREE; ex HMS DIANA cut across her bows and was sliced in two. 142 of her crew perished with 34 survivors being rescued by the PORT FAIRY | |
| 12/07/1943: Bombed which caused fires onboard, repairs at Casablanca took 6 weeks | |
| 04/06/1965: Arrived at Hong Kong to be broken up by Cheoy Lee Shipyard | |
| 22/07/1965: Fire at breaker's yard caused onboard explosions and took three days to extinguish |
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Newcastle Journal, Thursday, 19/07/1928