FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name DEVON CITY
Type Cargo
Yard Number 227
Launched 04/10/1933
Completed 12/1933
Off. Number 161620
Engine builder Wm. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland
Engine type 2 SCSA 4 cyl.
GRT 4928
Length (feet) 425.5
Beam (feet) 56.3
First owner Reardon Smith Line Ltd., Bideford
History 1940 - 04/1946 Admiralty requisition as a boom carrier
1958 CINDERELLA, Martime & Industrial Corporation, Monrovia (Enchimar SA, Brussels)
1965 OINOUSSAI, Cheyenne Cia. Naviera, Monrovia (P. Lemos & Assoc., London)
Fate 28/08/1967 stranded 35 miles north of the Orange River 28.30S 16.23E on passage Philippines for Rotterdam with copra, broke in two on 30/08/1967.

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