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TREVEAN (1945)
Service dates: 1946-1963
Official number: 181116
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 09.07.1945
- Launched.
- 12.1945
- Completed as Empire Tilbury for the Ministry of War Transport (Walter Runciman & Co Ltd, managers).
- 23.03.1946
- Sold to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd, London, and renamed Trevean.
- 02.01.1957
- Ownership transferred to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 20.01.1958
- Ownership reverted to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 1963
- Sold to Willow Shipping Company Ltd, Hong Kong (Eastern Asia Navigation Company Ltd, managers) and renamed East Lion.
- 1964
- Renamed Kawana.
- 04.06.1966
- Beached near Chittagong after fire had broken out in her cargo of coal, with which she arrived in Chinwangtao, China.
- 20.06.1966
- Reported to have broken her back and was declared a total loss.
- 1977
- The wreck was offered up for sale ‘as lies’.