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M.V. "Eskbank"

 

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Andrew Weir and Company

 

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Flag: British
Call Sign: GZRJ (Andrew Weir collective call sign GTZL)
Official No: 164117
Tonnage: 5137 Gross - 3039 Net
Built: 1937 Completed by William Doxford & Sons Ltd., Sunderland
Launched: April 1937
Engines: 4 cylinder 2 Stroke Cycle Single Acting Doxford oil engine. N.H.P. 687
General: Length 423.2 ft (129 m), Beam 55.5 ft (16.9 m), Depth 24.7 ft (7.5 m). Completed for Inver Transport & Trading Co Ltd. (A. Weir and Co. Managers)
Position Held: Radio Officer
Date Joined: 18th December 1958 (Signed on in Hong Kong, thence travelled via passenger ship to join vessel in Singapore)
Date Left: 18th September 1960 (Signed off in Dar es Salaam, returning to the UK on the inaugural flight of East African Airways Comet 4C)
Brief History: 1961 - Sold to Chip Hwa Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd., Singapore and renamed the "Hsin Ann".

1965 - Sold to Hwa Aun Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Chip Hwa Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd., Managers, Hong Kong.

1967 - Sold to shipbreakers at Singapore and arrived at Singapore Roads for scrapping 13th June 1967.