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NORFOLK TRADER (1954)
Service dates: 1956-1970
Official number: 187905
Shipping lines: GREAT YARMOUTH SHIPPING COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.12.1953
- Launched.
- 03.1954
- Completed as Arbon for NV Fegro (Holschers Kustvaart Bedrijf NV, managers) Dordrecht, Netherlands.
- 14.07.1956
- Acquired by the Great Yarmouth Shipping Company Ltd, Yarmouth, and renamed Norfolk Trader.
- 1970
- Sold for £14,500 to A Zafeiroudis, Thessaloniki, Greece, and renamed Christoforos.
- 1976
- Sold to C Kaiafas, et al, and renamed Phillipos K.
- 1983
- Renamed Diana D.
- 1983
- Renamed Ghada S.
- 23.11.1983
- Involved in a collision 20 nautical miles off Sidon on a voyage from Vasilikos to Sidon, carrying a load of cement. She was a total loss.