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Name: REAVELEY
Type Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/09/1955
Completed: 01/1956
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1914
Dimensions: 8297grt, 4699nrt, 436.5 x 60.0 x 39.0ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SA, Doxford type, 4cyl (670 x 2320mm), 4400bhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 186850; (IMO: 5291044)
History:
04/01/1956 The Whalton Shipping Co Ltd (Stephens Sutton Ltd, managers), Newcastle
1967 Eternita Shipping Co SA, Piraeus; renamed TOULA XILAS
1973 Afidnos Shipping Co SA, Piraeus; renamed MARY H
23/08/1975 Broken up
Comments: 21/11/1974: Wrecked in the Sulu Sea, 35 miles N of Banngi Island
On a voyage from Iloilo, Philippines, to Finland with a cargo of sugar
23/08/1975: Broken up at Kaohsiung


Above photo as REAVELEY is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as REAVELEY is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as REAVELEY is copyright of City of Vancouver Archives, Walter Frost Collection

Above photo as TOULA XILAS is copyright of PW Hobday

Above photo as MARY H is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield