| Name: | TURKISTAN |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 24/10/1938 |
| Completed: | 01/1939 |
| Builder: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 514 |
| Dimensions: | 6935grt, 4228nrt, 454.0 x 58.5 x 29.5ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (26.5, 44 & 74 x 48ins) & LP turbine, DR Geared, 706nhp |
| Engines by: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 167156 |
| History: | |
| 04/01/1939 | Strick Line (1928) Ltd (FC Strick & Co Ltd, managers), London |
| 1961 | Phoebus Kyprianou & partners, Beirut; renamed DEMOS |
| 22/07/1962 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 22/07/1962: Wrecked off the coast of Taiwan at position 22.40N - 121.25E |
| On a voyage from Pyongyang to Bangkok in ballast |
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