FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name EMPIRE PROTECTOR
Type Tanker
Yard Number 360
Launched 20/07/1944
Completed 10/1944
Off. Number 169147
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 PROTECTOR, The Admiralty, London
  03/1958 in service for storage at Malta
   
Fate 09/1963 breaking commenced at La Spezia.

Photo from Harold Appleyard, as WAVE PROTECTOR

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