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Name: TREFUSIS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/09/1961
Completed: 12/1961
Builder: John Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 609
Dimensions: 10028grt, 5581nrt, 508.3 x 65.3 x 40.1ft
Engines: Oil engine, Sulzer type, 2SCSA, 5cyl (760 x 1550mm), 7500bhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 302856
History:
12/1961 Hain Steamship Co Ltd, London
01/10/1965 Hain-Nourse Ltd, London
01/10/1971 Managers P&O General Cargo Division
11/05/1972 Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London
17/07/1975 Renamed STRATHTEVIOT
19/01/1978 Kodros Shipping Corporation, Piraeus; renamed EVIA
1993 Renamed HORIZON for delivery to breakers
1993 Broken up
Comments: 23/09/1980: Detained at Basrah during hostilities
Subsequently declared a "War Loss"
09/1993: Broken up at Gadani Beach by GN Brothers


Above photo as TREFUSIS is copyright of M Downes

Above photo as TREFUSIS is copyright of Stuart Smith

Above photo as TREFUSIS is copyright of Stuart Smith

Above photo as STRATHTEVIOT is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as STRATHTEVIOT is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo as EVIA is copyright of John Wiltshire