FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name ALTOBIZKAR-MENDI (launched as ELENA PEIRCE)
Type Cargo
Yard Number 4
Launched 27/09/1920
Completed 02/1921
Off. Number
Engine builder Richardsons, Westgarth & Co., Middlesbrough 
Engine type T 3-cyl 
GRT 5955
Length (feet) 400
Beam (feet) 53
First owner Compania Naviera Sota y Aznar, Bilbao (launched for Fratelli Peirce, Naples, some sources indicate completed for them then sold to Aznar)
History 10/1937 laid up at Antwerp during the Spanish Civil war
  1939 MONTE SAJA, Naviera Aznar Soc. Anon., Bilbao
   
Fate 06/06/1959 aground Iquique Bay, Chile; voyage Taltal - Alexandria. 27/06/1959 refloated and 04/1060 broken up at Bilbao.

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