Name: | RIALTO |
Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 02/09/1948 |
Completed: | 04/1949 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1860 |
Dimensions: | 45993grt, 2585nrt, 7050dwt, 401.5 x 55.8 x 25.7ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26.5, 43 & 73 x 48ins) + LP turbine, 1012nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.5knots |
Reg Number: | 183393 |
History: | |
31/03/1949 | Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd, Hull |
1970 | Tiara Shipping Co Ltd, Famagusta; renamed SANDRA |
1970 | Manager Transmarine Shipping Agencies Ltd, London (Thrassivoulos & Leonidas Voyazides) |
by 1973 | Government of China |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 05/1971: Reported as broken up at Whampoa |
1973: Identified in a photo taken at Dalian, China, name unknown |
Above photo as RIALTO is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield
Above photo as RIALTO is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as RIALTO is copyright of Richard Myers
Above photo showing RIALTO on charter to PSNC and in the Manchester Ship Canal is courtesy of Frank Brown
Above photo as SANDRA is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield
Above photo taken at Dalian in 1973/74 shows ex SANDRA alongside