M/S NORDWIND


Built 1943 by Wm. Pickersgill & Sons, Ltd. for Watts, Watts & Co., Ltd., London.

1947 KINGSBOROUGH Kingsborough Shipping Co., Ltd. (P.D. Henry & Sons), Glasgow.
1951 GRAIGLWYD Graig Shipping Co., Ltd. (Idwal Williams & Co., Ltd), Cardiff.
1959 NORDWIND Wallem & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong.
1959 NAN HAI 145 People's Republic of China, Guangzhou.
1967 HONG QI 145 China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd., Guangzhou.
1992 Deleted.

Photo taken on the River Elbe 1959 June

Even if it is not one of my best photos I send it because I think it is a very rare one
as the ship only had that name for this voyage before she was taken over by China.

Information concerning vessel's history is thanks to Wm. A. Schell.