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From: "John D.Stevenson" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] CONVOY-OB329- HISTORY & FINAL FATES
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 16:51:05 +0100
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> I am trying to establish the history and ultimate fates of the ships

Good afternoon Jim & Christine
Here are three for a start , will come back with the rest if no one else
does !

BIAFRA - OFFICIAL NO(143285)
1919. Laid down as the WAR DAHLIA for the Shipping Controller but sold on
the stocks.
1919. BIAFRA . Named at launch by Harland & Wolff , Greenock.
Owners , African Steamship Co., London, (Elder Dempster
managers.)
1933. Elder Dempster Lines Ltd., Liverpool. No Name change)
1951. GEORGE Meridian Shipping Co., Panama.
1956. UNITY Unity Cia.Nav. S.A. Panama ( A. Halcoussis & Co., Piraeus ,
managers)
1957. MAHFUZ. Linea Adriatico Gulfo Persa Ltda., Panama ( Const. A.
Petroutsis managers)
1958. SPETSAI STAR. Cia Maritima de Isola Spetsai, S.A. , Panama. ( same
managers.
1959. 6th April . Arrived Osaka , Japan , for breaking up.

NORMAN STAR (143398)
1919. ALMEDA . Launched by Dunlop Bremner & CoLtd., Port Glasgow.
Owners Blue Star Line .Ltd and transferred to Normanstar
Shipping Co ( Blue Star Line Ltd., mangrs)
1920. Union Cold Storage Co., ( Same managers) No name change
1929. NORMAN STAR. Same owners
1950. 7th March . Arrived Blyth for breaking up.

GLOXINIA (139896)
1920. Sept Delivered by Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co ltd Newcastle to Stag
Line. as a dry cargo ship
1921. April .Converted to molasses tanker by Smith's Dock, North Shields (
total cost, including conversion, of the vessel £236,235)
1952 .VITTORIA O. July . Imeria Siciliana di Nav , Palermo, Italy. ( Price
£115.000)
1955. SOARMA . Soc ArmamentoMaritimo, a.r.l. , Genoa. Converted to a dry
cargo vessel .
1959. 3rd April. Arrived Spezia for breaking up by Cantieri Navali Santa
Maria.

Above from Shipping company histories, Lloyds Registers and WSS.

Regards,
John.

John D. Stevenson A.M.I.Mar.E.
Pleasant sunny spring day, 14C.
Edinburgh.

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