SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LTD., SOUTH BANK

Name PORT ALFRED
Type Cargo
Yard Number 912
Launched 11/04/1930
Completed 05/1930
Off. Number 160730
Engine builder Shipbuilder
Engine type T. 3cyl.
GRT 4918
Length (feet) 336
Beam (feet) 60.2
First owner Anticosti Shipping Co., Middlesbrough / Montreal
History 1933 BELDAGNY, Red. Beldagny (Christen Smith), Oslo
  1934 exhaust turbine added
  1938 FOSS BECK, Foss Beck Shipping Co. (A. C. Lensen), London
  11/1939 - 05/1946 Admiralty requisition as aircraft transport, from 04/1942 boom carrier
  1940 Ministry of Shipping (North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland S.N. Co.)
  1940 Foss Beck Shipping Co. (A. C. Lensen), London
  1946 ROY, A/S D/S Ask (Aug. Kjerland), Bergen
   
Fate 04/1960 broken up at Rotterdam (sold for breaking 04/1959)

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