WELSH TRADER

WELSH TRADER

Postby Tony Frost » Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:00 pm

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Trials (Franks& Sons)
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Re: WELSH TRADER

Postby Tony Frost » Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:40 am

Thompsons answer to Doxfords economy ship (helped on by the 'Scrap and Build'scheme)but both reverted to split superstructure whilst the liberty ship copied the composite style
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Re: WELSH TRADER

Postby magoonigal » Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:26 am

WELSH TRADER.

J L Thompson. North Sands Yard number 584 for Trader Navigation Co Ltd, London. Established 1936.
Launched on the 14th January 1938 and completed by the March.

4,974 Gross. Coal Fired Boilers.
T.3 Cy by North Eastern Marine Engineering Company Limited, Newcastle.

1951. Sold to 'Orion' Schiff. Ges. Reith & Co., Hamburg and renamed BETEIGEUZE.
1956. Converted to Oil Firing.
1961. To Palomba & d'Amato, Torre del Greco, Italy and renamed PEPPINO PALOMBA.
1962. To Umberto d'Amato.
1970. To Michele d'Amato.

Sold to Italian Breakers and arrived at Spezia on the 22nd May 1970.

Modern design and not that much different to her reploacement.
Paul Hood. + WSS Tyneside Branch Hon Sec.
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