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MARSWORTH (1952)

Service dates: 1954-1969

Official number: 168593

Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; GRAND UNION (SHIPPING)

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

04.11.1952
Launched.
12.1952
Completed as Brier Rose for Hughes Holden Shipping Ltd, Swansea.
02.1954
Sold to Grand Union (Shipping) Ltd, London and renamed Marsworth.
1965
Ownership transferred to General Steam Navigation Company, London.
1969
Sold to Losinjska Plovidba, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, and renamed Kimen.
1969
Owners restyled Brodogradiliste ‘Cres’, Cres, Yugoslavia.
1977
Owners restyled Brodogradiliste ‘Cres’ Zanatsko Proizvadno i Usluzino Poduzece, Cres, Yugoslavia.
1991
Ownership transferred to the Flanonia Shipping Co Ltd (Brodogradiliste ‘Cres’ Zanatsko Proizvadno i Usluzino Poduzece, Cres, Croatia, managers) and placed under the flag of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
28.10.1999
Broken up at Aliaga.


Ship technical details (PDF)