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EMPIRE GALENA (1943)
Service dates: 1947-1958
Official number: 180579
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.08.1943
- Launched.
- 01.1944
- Delivered as Weserstrom for Norddeutscher Lloyd.
- 05.1945
- Taken as a prize at Kiel and renamed Empire Galena by the Ministry of War Transport.
- 06.03.1947
- Sold to the General Steam Navigation Company
- 30.07.1947
- Renamed Albatross.
- 02.04.1958
- Sold to National Shipping Lines of South Africa for £51,500 and renamed Port Capetown.
- 1959
- Sold to African Coasters (Pty) Ltd, Durban, and renamed Frontier.
- 1966
- Sold to Summit Nay Co, Hong Kong and renamed Fortune.
- 12.1968
- Sold for breaking up at Hong Kong.