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GANGES (1950)
Service dates: 1950-1965
Official number: 183226
Shipping lines: JAMES NOURSE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 17.03.1950
- Launched.
- 05.1950
- Completed as Ganges for James Nourse Ltd.
- 1965
- Sold to St Merryn Shipping Co Ltd, London (Red Anchor Line Ltd, managers) and renamed Shirley Christine.
- 09.03.1968
- Grounded at Muroran, inward bound from Nakhodka with coal.
- 23.04.1968
- Refloated.
- 1968
- Sold to Darien Shipping Co.
- 1968
- Sold to Achille Holcoussis, Piraeus, and renamed Leonis.
- 11.09.1971
- Wrecked off Takoradi (4°52’50”N-1°45’W), bound Pointe-Noire to Takoradi with manganese ore and logs.