| Photographer: | waimea [View profile] | Title: | Port Quebec | Added: | May 15, 2008 | | Captured: | | IMO: | Unavailable | Hits: | 1,829 | | Photo Category: |
General cargo ships built 1940 and before (Over 3000gt) | | Description: | | A fine underway shot of Port Line's Port Quebec (6,294) at Port Adelaide in the early 1950s, an image preserved on a glass plate. She was built in 1939 by J.L.Thompson & Sons, Sunderland, was requisitioned incomplete by the Admiralty, converted to a minelayer by Furness Ship Building, Haverton Hill for the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Port Quebec. In 1943 she was converted into an aircraft maintenance repair vessel by John Brown & Co. at Clydebank and renamed HMS Deer Sound. She was finally delivered to Port Line in December 1947 and took up her intended name. Surely one of the few ships to have gone through four ship builders prior to delivery to her owners in that her conversion to her intended role was done by Swan,Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle. She served the company on the Montreal/Australia/New Zealand (MANZ) service until she went for scrap at Keelung where work commenced in December 1968. |
|
 |  |
|
;){kind=link}