Official number 187495
type: LST (Landing Ship, Tank)
Owner: Ministry of Transport, UK
Manager: British India Steam Navigation Co., London
Flag: British
Builder: Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co Ltd, Lauzon, Canada
Gross tons: 4,255
Length overall: 105.15 m
Max. draft.: 3.72 m
Engine: triple-expansion steam by Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Montreal
Service peed: 10 knots
Completed July 1945 as HMS “LST 3510” for the Royal Navy
1947: renamed HMS “Slinger”
Laid up in River Clyde
1965: requisitioned by Ministry of Transport during Suez Crisis; renamed “Empire Kittiwake” & placed under management of Atlantic S.N. Co.
1961: management transferred to B.I.S.N. Co.
1969 January: sold for scrapping at Singapore
photo: Empire Dock, Singapore, August 1966