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Name: EMPIRE ROACH
Type: Ferry
Launched: 25/08/1942
Completed: 10/1942
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1756
Dimensions: 716grt, 268nrt, 179.5 x 40.2 x 11.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19 & 31 x 21ins), 132nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 165844
History:
10/1942 Ministry of War Transport (Townsend Bros Ferries Ltd), Newcastle
1968 Progressive Trading Agency Ltd, Newcastle & Valletta
1973 Cantieri Navale Giuseppe Tringali
No later history known
Comments: Designed with ramps at both ends & fitted with a 25ton derrick
1978: Dismantled & part of hull converted to a barge at Augusta


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