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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