FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name EMPIRE LAW
Type Tanker
Yard Number 357
Launched 27/11/1943
Completed 03/1944
Off. Number 169132
Engine builder Richardson Westgarth & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool
Engine type 2 steam turbines
GRT 8128
Length (feet) 473.8
Beam (feet) 64.3
First owner Ministry of War Transport (Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd.), Middlesbrough
   
History 1946 WAVE CONQUEROR, The Admiralty, London
  1959 Sold to H.G.Pounds, then used as a fuel hulk at Le Havre
   
Fate 23/04/1960 arrived at La Spezia for breaking.

Photo from Harold Appleyard, as WAVE CONQUEROR

Another view as WAVE CONQUEROR

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