SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LTD., SOUTH BANK

Name MEADCLIFFE HALL
Type Cargo, Great Lakes type
Yard Number 868
Launched 07/02/1929
Completed 03/1929
Off. Number 160716
Engine builder Smith's Dock
Engine type T. 3 cyl., engines aft
GRT 1895
Length (feet) 253
Beam (feet) 44.1
First owner Hall Corporation of Canada, Middlesbrough / Montreal
   
History 1955 PICTON, Colonial Steamships Ltd. (R. Scott Misener), Port Colborne, Ontario
  1959 Scott Misener Steamships Ltd.
  1959 Kingcome Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver for conversion to a barge but damaged during hurricane at end 09/1959 while under tow off the Bahamas, Montreal for Vancouver. Declared constructive total loss and sold.
  1960 EL LLANERO, Surplus Shipping Corporation, La Guaira, Venezuela
   
Fate 1961 delivered to breakers at Vlissingen under name OLGA, broken up in Q4/1962.

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