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HARPALYCE (1942)
Service dates: 1944-1962
Official number: 168334
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 30.06.1942
- Launched.
- 10.1942
- Delivered as Harpalyce to the National Steamship Company Ltd (J & C Harrison Ltd, managers) London.
- 30.11.1944
- Sold to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd without a change of name.
- 1946
- Renamed Trewellard.
- 18.12.1956
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, however management and operators remained The Hain Steamship Company.
- 1958
- Returned to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 12.10.1962
- Sold to Santa Marina Compania Maritima SA, Greece, and renamed Artemon.
- 07.10.1965
- Arrived at Piraeus with engine trouble sustained whilst on a voyage from Cebu to Rotterdam. Fire broke out in her cargo and
- 01.11.1965
- Fire broke out in her cargo. As a result she was beached in Ambelaki Bay in order that the fire fighting could take place. The fire was not extinguished until the 8th. She was declared a constructive total loss.
- 29.09.1966
- Left Piraeus in tow for demolition at Valencia.
- 12.1966
- Demolition commenced by Desguaces Incolesa.