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PHILOMEL (1936)
Service dates: 1936-1957
Official number: 164575
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 09.12.1935
- Launched.
- 27.01.1936
- Completed as Philomel for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 30.05.1957
- Sold to F Italo Croce SpA, Italy, and renamed Croce Guiseppe.
- 1964
- Sold to Riakion Cia Naviera SA, Piraeus, and renamed Anesis.
- 15.02.1967
- Ran aground 24km (15 miles) east of Lagos whilst on a voyage from Duala to Lagos and Beirut with logs and cotton seed.
- 25.10.1967
- Broke in two.