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SOUND FISHER
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Photographer:PWR [ View profile ]
Title:Sound Fisher
Location:Goole, United Kingdom
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built 1940-1949 (under 3000gt)
Added:Nov 7, 2013
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Image Resolution:1,560 x 964
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Built 1949 x BENVEG x POLPERRO passing Swinefleet outward from Goole (Charlie Hill)
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Completed: 4/1949
Builder: Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol, U.K.
Gross tonnage: 1,130 tons
Deadweight tonnage: 1,392 tons.
Length overall: 68.9m
Beam: 10.4m
Single diesel - 10.5 knots
1949 - "POLPERRO" - Polpen Shipping Co.Ltd., Falmouth, U.K.
1950 - "BENVEG" - Galbraith, Pembroke & Co. Ltd., Leith, U.K.
1951 - ownership to Ben Line Steamers Ltd., Leith
1951 - "SOUND FISHER" - James Fisher & Sons Ltd., Barrow, U.K.
13/1/1957 - capsized and sank east of Noss Head, Caithness, U.K. when cargo of scrap shifted on a voyage from Lyness, Orkney Islands, U.K. to Ghent, Belgium.
Ref:https://www.miramarshipindex.nz/ship?idno=1183331 and
http://www.hellsmouth.com/sound-fisher.html
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