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Name: VAN DER DUYN
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/05/1914
Completed: 07/1914
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 961
Dimensions: 3299grt, 2005nrt, 331.1 x 45.2 x 25.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 63 x 39ins), 440nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
07/1914 Wambersie & Zoon, Rotterdam
1917 Sibria Steamship Corporation, New York; renamed SAGUA
1919 Atlantic Fruit Company, New York
1923 Cuyamel Fruit Company, New York
1924 Renamed CUYAMPA; registered at Puerto Cortes
1929 Mayan Steamship Corporation (United Fruit Company), Puerto Cortes
1935 United Fruit Steamship Corporation, New York; renamed SAGUA
1940 Mayan Steamship Corporation (United Fruit Company), Tela
1943 Empresa Hondurena de Vapores (United Fruit Company), Tela
1946 Maritime Transport & Trading Co SA, Tela; renamed GALILEA
1949 Cia Anon Transp Panamericanos (Ballestrero, Tuena & Canepa), Panama
09/1957 Broken up
Comments: 09/1957: Broken up at La Spezia by Bi Ti Ci Metalli


Above photo as VAN DER DUYN is courtesy of Reinier van de Wetering

Above photo as GALILEA is courtesy of David Asprey

Shields Daily News, Friday, 08/05/1914