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SARDIS (1928)
Service dates: 1935-1950
Official number: 160199
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 14.02.1928
- Launched.
- 03.1928
- Completed as Sardis at a cost of £34,600.
- 10.05.1934
- Ownership transferred to the Moss Hutchison Line Ltd, Liverpool.
- 17.10.1935
- Moss Hutchison Line became a subsidiary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 06.09.1939
- Requisitioned for Government service and employed for almost the whole of WWII at Scapa Flow.
- 27.08.1945
- Returned to owners.
- 07.1950
- Sold to Aniceto Urain, Bilbao, having been on the second-hand market since March. Registered at Puerto Limon, Costa Rica.
- 06.1952
- Sold to Clemnte Campos y Cia SA, Bilbao.
- 11.1953
- Boilers converted to oil-firing.
- 1954
- Renamed Marichu and registered at Bilbao.
- 1965
- Sold to Christos C Calafatis and renamed Phloisvos and placed under the Greek flag.
- 1966
- Sold to Capo Pala Cia Nav SA and renamed Capo Pala and registered at Panama.
- 1967
- Renamed Agios Nicholaos.
- 1969
- Broken up in Greece.