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Name: ETHYLENE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/1921
Completed: 05/1921
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 226
Dimensions: 936grt, 489nrt, 224.7 x 32.0 x 13.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (16, 26 & 43 x 27ins), 116mn
Engines by: North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145183
History:
09/04/1921 Gas, Light & Coke Co, London
1949 Owners restyled as North Thames Gas Board, London
1953 Hargreaves Coal & Shipping Co Ltd (Comben, Longstaff & Co Ltd, managers), London
1953 Renamed HARFRY
05/03/1957 Broken up
Comments: 17/10/1940: Damaged by a mine near the East Oaze Buoy
05/03/1957: Broken up by TW Ward Ltd at Grays, Essex


Above photo as ETHYLENE is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as HARFRY is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as HARFRY is courtesy of Photoship