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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)