W. HARKESS & SON LTD., MIDDLESBROUGH

Name CALGARY
Type Cargo
Yard Number 194 (sub-contract from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson y.n.892)
Launched 01/07/1912
Completed 08/1912
Off. Number 133514
Engine builder  
Engine type Motor twin screw, aft
GRT 1639
Length (feet) 248
Beam (feet) 42.5
First owner Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend
History 1915 James Playfair, Midland, Ontario
1916 BACOI, Standard Oil Co., New York
1917 converted to a tanker, new diesel engine by McIntosh & Seymour Corp., New York
1921 Gillespie S.S. Corporation, New York
1925 Bacoi S.S. Corporation (C. D. Mallory & Co. Inc.), Wilmington, Delaware
1930 Lake Tankers Corporation, Wilmington
1937 Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc., New York
1941 Bacoi Shipping Corporation (R. W. Chamberlin), New York
Fate 20/05/1945 damaged by explosion and fire off the Cape Cod Canal on passage New York for Boston with oil, refloated and broken up in 1948.

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