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Name: WAR RAJPUT
Type: Tanker
Launched: 07/06/1918
Completed: 08/1918
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 947
Dimensions: 5562grt, 3472nrt, 400.0 x 52.4 x 28.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by: Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142613
History:
08/1918 Shipping Controller (British Tanker Co Ltd, manager)
1920 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1921 Renamed CONIA
1925 British Molasses Co Ltd, London; renamed ATHELBEACH
1926 Company renamed United Molasses Co Ltd
1930 Odd Berg, Oslo; renamed REALF
1931 Skibsaktieselskapet Asplund (Georg Ronneberg & Jens F Galtung, managers), Olso
1937 United Molasses Co Ltd, London; renamed ATHELMERE
1951 Mageolia Nav SA, Panama; renamed ALEXANDROS
15/03/1964 Broken up
Comments: 15/03/1964: Broken up at Split


Above photo as ATHELBEACH

Above photo as REALF

Above photo as ALEXANDROS copyright Jorgen Lonn

Above photo as ALEXANDROS courtesy of Richard Cox