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LORMONT (1930)
Service dates: 1930-1953
Official number: 162503
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 07.10.1930
- Launched.
- 11.11.1930
- Completed as Swift for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 19.05.1940
- At Le Havre during the first major German air raid. Requisitioned by the Navy the following day and sailed for Southampton with mails.
- 1943/1944
- Refitted on the Mersey River for the Corps of Royal Engineers.
- 05.1944
- Left for services at Cherbourg, Ostend, Antwerp, and Ghent. Fitted out on the Tyne for service in the Far East.
- 10.03.1948
- Transferred to Moss Hutchison Line and renamed Lormont. Served on their Mersey/Bordeaux service.
- 1953
- Sold to the Cyprus Merchant Shipping Co Ltd and renamed Silver Med.
- 1960
- Renamed Silver King by Panamanian owners.
- 1965
- Renamed South Sea.
- 1968
- Renamed Eugenie 9. Broken up at Hong Kong.