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Name: ESKWATER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/07/1956
Completed: 10/1956
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 76
Dimensions: 616grt, 339nrt, 800dwt, 190.4 x 30.1 x 11.8ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SA, 8cyl (10.5 x 13.5ins), 130bhp;
(1974: Oil engine, 4SA, 12cyl (159 x 203mm), 765bhp)
Engines by: Crossley Brothers Ltd, Manchester; (1974: Caterpillar)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 187473
History:
10/1956 Eskgarth Shipping Co Ltd, London
1958 Blue Peter Steamships Ltd, St John's, Newfoundland
1958 Renamed BLUE TRADER
1971 Stephenville Shipping Ltd, St John's; renamed SANDY POINT NO 1
1976 Maritime Reefer Service Inc, Panama; renamed SOL ECLIPSE
1978 Salta Shipping Corporation, Georgetown; renamed HANCOCK CLIPPER
1980 M & R Shipping Ltd, Georgetown, Cayman; renamed CHATA TWO
No later history known
Comments: 1974: Re-engined
2001: Deleted from Lloyd's Register, existence in doubt


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