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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’.


Ship technical details (PDF)