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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