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Name: SUNTRAP
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/10/1929
Completed: 10/1929
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 562
Dimensions: 939grt, 487nrt, 217.5 x 32.0 x 13.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (16, 27 & 44 x 30ins), 115nhp
Engines by: George Clark Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 161310
History:
25/10/1929 Gas, Light & Coke Co (Stephenson, Clarke & Assoc Coys Ltd, managers), London
1949 Owners restyled North Thames Gas Board, London
1954 Ouse Steamship Co Ltd (ER Atkinson & Sons, managers), Goole; renamed SUNFLEET
17/09/1958 Broken up
Comments: 17/09/1958: Broken up by Arie Rijsdijk at Hendrik Ido Ambacht


Above photo as SUNTRAP copyright of T Rayner

Above photo as SUNFLEET is courtesy of George Robinson

Above photo as SUNFLEET is courtesy of George Robinson