HUMBERGATE

Built 1945
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 1051 grt,  nrt
Length / beam / draft 205.0 x 32.8 x 13.7 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) John Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen (184)
Engine Builder John Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen
Engine T3cyl (14, 24, 40 x 27in), 117 nhp
O.N. 180987
Owners 1945 Ministry of War Transport (O. Dorey & Sons Ltd.), Aberdeen as EMPIRE CHELSEA
  1946 Ministry of Transport (Craggs & Jenkin Ltd.)
  1947 Hull Gates Shipping Co. Ltd. (Craggs & Jenkin Ltd.), Goole; renamed HUMBERGATE
  1955 Springfjord Shipping Co. Ltd., London; renamed SPRINGWEAR
  1959 Lynn Shipping Co. Ltd., London; renamed LYNNWEAR
  1962 South Star Corporation (V. Ensenat, Madrid), Panama; renamed DUMBO
   
Fate 24/11/1968 dragged anchor and grounded at Las Palmas, refloated 19/04/1969 and sold for breaking locally

as SPRINGWEAR

as LYNNWEAR

 

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