Name: | SAMBUR |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 1925 |
Completed: | 06/1925 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1206 |
Dimensions: | 769grt, 311nrt, 201.2 x 33.7 x 15.3ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (14.5, 23 & 38 x 27in), 226nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws |
Reg Number: | 148590 |
History: | |
04/1925 | Great Western Railway Company, London |
1942 | Renamed TOREADOR |
10/1945 | Great Western Railway Company, Weymouth; renamed SAMBUR |
1948 | British Transport Commission, Weymouth |
1963 | British Railways Board, Weymouth |
1966 | Broken up |
Comments: | 10/1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a barrage balloon vessel |
10/1945: Returned to owners | |
Q4/1966: Broken up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht by Frank Rijsdijk-Holland |
Above photo as SAMBUR courtesy of Richard Cox