Name: | SURAT |
Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 28/11/1947 |
Completed: | 10/1948 |
Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
Yard: | Walker |
Yard Number: | 103 |
Dimensions: | 8925grt, 4808nrt, 11590dwt, 522.0 x 67.3 x 29.6ft (*) |
Engines: | 3 x Steam turbines, 13000shp |
Engines by: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, Barrow in Furness |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 17.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 182866 |
History: | |
08/10/1948 | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London |
1968 | Renamed PANDO HEAD |
1971 | P&O General Cargo Division, London |
04/1972 | Broken up |
Comments: | 09/04/1972: Arrived at Inverkeithing for breaking up |
04/1972: Broken up by TW Ward Ltd | |
(*) Dimensions are Length OA, Breadth extreme & Draft summer |
Above photo as SURAT is copyright of Peter Dixon
Above photo as SURAT is copyright of JK Byass
Above photo as PANDO HEAD is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield
PANDO HEAD on the right, already partly broken up at Inverkeithing