SIR RAYLTON DIXON & COMPANY, MIDDLESBROUGH
| Name | ANVERSVILLE (launched as CLARENCE) |
| Type | Passenger/Cargo |
| Yard Number | 457 |
| Launched | 12/12/1898 |
| Completed | 05/1899 |
| Off. Number | |
| Engine builder | Wallsend Slipway Company, Newcastle |
| Engine type | T. 3 cyl. |
| GRT | 4081 |
| Length (feet) | 370.1 |
| Beam (feet) | 46.1 |
| First owner | Cie. Belge Maritime du Congo, Antwerp (launched for African S.S. Co. - Elder, Dempster & Co.) |
| History | 1906 DAKAR, African S.S. Co. (Elder, Dempster & Co.), London |
| 30/03/1915 burned out at Forcados, towed to Lagos and rebuilt by Nigerian government | |
| 1918 The Shipping Controller, London | |
| 1920 BLOEMFONTEIN, N.V. Nederlandsche Zuid Afrikaansche Stoomv. Mij., Amsterdam | |
| 1925 HONG PENG, Ho Hong S.S. Co., Singapore | |
| 04/1942 Admiralty requisition, served as an ammunition storage hulk at Trincomalee | |
| 07/1946 released | |
| Fate | 1947 sold for breaking at Bombay. |
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