AMBASSADOR

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Photographer:

Paul Wille [ View profile ]

Title:

Ambassador

Location:

Vancouver, Canada

Photo Category:

General Cargo Ships Built 1940-1949 (over 3000gt)

Added:

Apr 9, 2016

Views:

598

Image Resolution:

3,000 x 1,600

Description:

AMBASSADOR
Hall Brothers Steamship co Ltd, Newcastle
1945
Wm Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, Hull # 730

On February 21,1964 the cargo ship AMBASSADOR, on voyage from Philadelphia to the UK with 9516 tons of wheat and corn in bulk, suffered an engine breakdown, got flooded in heavy weather and sank while under tow of tug ELBE to the Azores.

Vancouver, November 29,1952
City of Vancouver Archives
Reference code CVA 447-3090
Photo by Walter E. Frost