SALTFLEET

Built 1944
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 1051 grt, 568 nrt
Dimensions 205.0 x 32.8 x 13.7 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) John Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen (182)
Engine builder John Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen
Engine T3cyl (14, 24, 40 x 27in), 650 nhp
O.N. 165270
Owners 1944 Ministry of War Transport (E. P. Atkinson & Sons), Goole as EMPIRE CHEYNE
  1946 Ouse S.S. Co. Ltd. (A. W. Atkinson, Goole; renamed SALTFLEET
   
Fate

03/10/1951 aground at Reedness, outward from Goole for Poole with coal. Submerged the next day and broken up as she lay.

and in her last resting place ...

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