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SWIFT (1911)
Service dates: 1920-1929
Official number: 132632
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 26.08.1911
- Launched.
- 02.11.1911
- Completed as Swift for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 12.02.1915
- Renamed Deanswift at the requirement of the Admiralty.
- 04.06.1915
- Name reverted to Swift.
- 31.10.1920
- Takeover of the General Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1929
- Sold to Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company and renamed Harlaw.
- 1946
- Sold to Chinese owners and renamed Min Chih.
- 1947
- Renamed Hai Yang.
- 1949
- Sold to Panamanian owners and renamed Chepo.
- 1950
- Renamed Hollina.
- 1953
- Renamed El Brenon.
- 1959
- Renamed Triumph.
- 28.08.1963
- Arrived at Hong Kong for breaking up.