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Name: LEAFIELD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/05/1905
Completed: 06/1905
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 125
Dimensions: 2539grt, 1616nrt, 313.3 x 45.0 x 20.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 266nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118659
History:
06/1905 Steamship Leafield Co Ltd (Alfred Brewis), Newcastle
1915 Donald & Taylor, Glasgow
1923 Clyde Commercial Steamships Ltd (RW Bryce & WG Taylor, managers), Glasgow
1932 Mirupanu Steamship Co Ltd (WG Walton), Glasgow; renamed MIRUPANU
1946 D/S Draco A/S (R Fischer-Nielsen), Copenhagen; renamed SALLING
1954 Behwa Shipping Co Inc (John Svensson, Stockholm), Monrovia; renamed JOLLY
23/06/1955 Broken up
Comments: 23/06/1955: Broken up at Boom, Belgium


Photo as LEAFIELD courtesy of George Robinson

Photo as SALLING copyright of the Robert Bomans Collection