RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name ACHLIBSTER
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 571
Launched 23/01/1906
Completed 03/1906
Off. Number 123151
Engine builder Blair & Co. Ltd. Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 4395
Length (feet) 355
Beam (feet) 41
First owner Achlibster S.S. Co. Ltd. (J. & M. Gunn), Cardiff.
   
History 1919 GLOFIELD, Globe Sg. Co. Ltd. (Humphries (Cardiff) Ltd.), Greenock.
  1927 HAMPSTEAD, Britain S.S. Co. Ltd. (Watts, Watts & Co. Ltd.), London.
  1929 The Watts Shipping Co. Ltd, London.
  1930 ALECOS, Nicolas A. Cottakis, Andros
   
Fate 22/06/1935 Wrecked, broke in two and sank half a mile N. of Cape Veo, east of Cape Vilano, when on a voyage from Barry to Bahia Blanca with coal.

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