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Name: ROYSTON GRANGE
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/06/1959
Completed: 12/1959
Builder: Hawthorn, Leslie (Ship Builders) Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 736
Dimensions: 10385dwt, 10262grt, 5726nrt, 489.0 x 65.7 x 29.0ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, 8500shp
Engines by: Hawthorn, Leslie (Engineering) Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 16.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 301035
History:
12/1959 Houlder Line Ltd (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd), London
20/05/1974 Broken up
Comments: 11/05/1972: Destroyed by fire after a collision with tanker TIEN CHEE when
35 miles off Montevideo in fog, outward from Buenos Aires for London
All on board perished, 61 crew, 12 passengers and 1 pilot
20/05/1974: Arrived under tow at Barcelona for breaking up


Above photo is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield

Above photo is copyright of Bob Scott

Above photo is copyright of the Illustrated London News, Thursday, 01/06/1972

The burnt out wreck at Montevideo in 1973. Photo is courtesy of Photoship