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SWALLOW (1947)
Service dates: 1961-1967
Official number: 302612
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 10.1947
- Completed as Dorrit Clausen for C Clausen, Kolding, Denmark.
- 1949
- Sold to N V Hollandsche Stoomboot Maas, Amsterdam, and renamed Texelstroom.
- 10.03.1961
- Sold to the General Steam Navigation Company, London, and renamed Swallow.
- 06.04.1967
- Sold to Nicolaos Leondaras, et al, Piraeus, and renamed Evelpis.
- 13.01.1968
- Sank off Navarino Bay after developing engine trouble during heavy weather whilst on a voyage from Benghazi to Ravenna in ballast. Her crew of 16 were lost.