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Name: ALNWICK
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/03/1928
Completed: 04/1928
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1268
Dimensions: 1406grt, 610nrt, 254.0 x 38.7 x 14.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (20.75, 35.5 & 60 x 45ins), 392nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 149463
04/1928 Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle
1935 AS Ganger Rolf (Fred Olsen & Co, managers), Oslo; renamed BALI
1952 Government of Burma; renamed PYIDAWTHA
06/05/1955 Wrecked
Comments: 1941: Requisitioned by the German Navy & renamed MRS 3 (minesweeper)
09/11/1944: Sank at Dordrecht, subsequently raised.
07/1945: Returned to owners
06/05/1955: Wrecked in the Bay of Bengal, off Cheduba Island
On a voyage from Rangoon to Akyat with passengers & general cargo


Above photo as ALNWICK courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as BALI copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Per-Erik Johnsen collection

Above photo as BALI copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Per-Erik Johnsen collection