News item about events 50 years ago today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-38169898
However, the NAFSIPOROS survived and continued for a further two and a half years until finally wrecked.
Middlesbrough Dock - 23 September 1968:
.... and a view from my collection (Alex Duncan photo):
NAFSIPOROS (5417064), Greece, 1287gt, completed Gothenburg 9-1941; commissioned 9-1944
1941 AHUS - 1960 BOTHNIA - 1963 PARMA - 1965 NAFSIPOROS
leaked & wrecked 27.55S/15.40E 5.7.69 [Cagliari-Bombay, fluorspar]
Ron